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The French synth band M83 released this single, “We Own the Sky,” in December 2008. Rather than produce a music video the conventional way, they held a contest, soliciting videos of this song from many entrants.

This entry (which did not win the contest), a gorgeous 3-D anaglyph video directed by Warren Kommers, contains some stunning shots. The girl on the mountain, overlooking the city, is perfectly done. The video looks quite good here in the embedded player, but if you want to see it in all its glory, you should and watch it in HD. Five minutes.

This is what Doctor Who would look like in 3-D, if they made Doctor Who in 3-D. Sadly, they do not. I am so, so, sorry.

I made this frame from into a 3-D anaglyph myself, with a depth map. Great episode. If you haven’t seen it, you should. And if you have, you should see it again.

From Stefan Voigt, David Shelton, and Stefan Weinberg of Mainz, Germany, comes this happy little 3-minute movie about two robots who live inside a television. When the monitor glass breaks, they are introduced to the world outside.

As I watched, I kept thinking of Plato's Republic, wherein Socrates explained that we are all living as in a cave, where all we can see are projections of light and shadows on one wall. And Plato never even had a TV.

Botellas Rotantes (Rotating Bottles) is a short (about one minute) experimental stop-motion animation, shot in anaglyphic 3-D by Iván López Espejo, a student in Granada, Spain. With all of the fancy modeling and rendering software out there, it's good to see some old-school stop-motion being done. The music, Liszt's Un Sospiro, is a perfect soundtrack.