Friday, May 28, 2010

short animations / short notes / 1

gene deitch - munro (1961) / munro is only 4 but is part of the marines.. and is confused by the strange games that the army plays.

jan lenica - nowy janko muzykant (1960) / beautiful mechanic cow and its master in a surreal stroll through a dreamscape

jeff scher - trigger happy (1997) / black and white photograms play around in music.

john and faith hubley - doonesbury (1977) / 30 something ex-flowerchildren look back upon the death of an era and the passing of their idealism.

larry jordan - moonlight sonata (1979) / in a blue landscape bodies float

leigh hodgkinson - moo (2004) / the girl's cow jumps over the moon and slowly ends up eatign the whole world to get back to it.

len rye - free radicals (1958) / over african drumbeats white scrawls dance across the screen

Chris Lavis - madame tutli putli (2007) / in extraordinary stop-motion animation a creepy tale of loss and death on a lonely train ride for madame.

Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar - panique au village (2000) / a childrens game of cowboys and indians and their horse fighting over a cake in a suburban home.

paul driessen - le peuple de l'eau (1992) / a fascination with water levels of the netherlands where half the world is above the water line and the other below.

phil malloy - intolerance iii - (2004) /a hilarious and horrifying 1984 like search for the zog to the ends of the world- some people believe in them, others dont.

ali taylor - puleng (2003) / computer animated short set in a desolate farm while waiting for water.

stephan-flint muller - Bow Tie Duty for Squareheads (2004) - madcap german film makes the excavates the oddness of the images in the everyday landscape of berlin by playing with form and scale.

the blackheart gang - tale of how (2005) / a lush opera about a killer octupus and creatures from bosch who are saved by a rat.

liam kemp - this wonderful life (2003) / sentimental realism about an almost suicide on a bridge and an abandond child.

oskar fischinger - allegretto (1936) / the colours and forms of music are geometric and primary.

christopher hinton - nibbles (2003) / a fishing trip in fast forward about food.

rene castilo - down to the bone (2001) / claymation about life in the underworld.

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