Wednesday, June 02, 2010

short animations / short notes / 2


holding your breath (2001) - anthony lucas - in piss gold light, in an industrial town a young girl and her relationship with a boy and a strange man on the outskirts of the city.

dreams and desires - family ties (2006) - joanna quinn - bodies that swirl in line drawings follow a wedding in the family and embarrassments caused by the narrator.

surogat (1961) - dusan vokutic - in the early 1960s everything is inflatable- including the women you woo and very ground beneath your feet.

eternal gaze (2003) sam chen - sentimental paean to giacometti and his spindly wan beautiful figures. they come alive as he dies in their arms.

the men in the park (1971) - george geertsen - observational sketches about bodies lounging in a park.

cat and clown (1988) - golovanova - wild perspectival movements in an out of a friendship between a clown and a cat he adopts.

into pieces (2004) - guilherme marcondes - at a street corner trying to put the right peg in the right hole.

the hole (1972) - john and faith hubley - underground in a city somewhere a random conversation between two construction workers is on speculating on the meaning of life, love and other nonsense; including a nuclear holocaust.

the old crocodile (2005) - koji yamamura - a greedy old crocodile eats everything that tries to help him.

thank you mask man (1971) - lenny bruce - a stand up comic routine about a mask man and his "friendship" with an indian and a horse.

the pearce sisters (2007) - luis cook - while string winds and rain ravage the coastline two sisters fish for food and more.

the hill farm (1989) - mark baker - in a small farm at the edge of the forest life is following its routine until a group of backpackers and hunters arrive waking the enormous bear in his lair.

tom sweep (1992) - michael dudok de wit - poor tom sweep cant keep the damn street clean.

the saint inspector (1996) - mike booth - in a claymation world where saints sit high on top of poles, a saint inspector arrives to survey and classify them.

legend of the forest (1987) - osamu tezuka - as the story of an orphaned flying squirrel and his big fight with the lumberjack continues the animation keeps shifting from simple drawings to line drawings, to colour. nature against civilization.

spirals (1926) - oskar fishinger - dancing black and white spirals.

an old box (1975) - paul driessen - a discarded box lying on the side of a street opens out as a christmas present in a city that appears and dissapears in line drawings around it.

70 (1970) - robert breer - experimental animation short exploring colour, foreground and movement.

silly symphonies - the old mill (1937) - wilfred jackson - disney short about a community of animals around an old mill surviving a thunderstorm.

water for maya (2000) stan brakhage - as a tribute to maya deren brakhage paints celluloid in shades of blue.

when the day breaks (1999) - holding your breath (2001) - anthony lucas - in piss gold light, in an industrial town a young girl and her relationship with a boy and a strange man on the outskirts of the city.


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