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The Modern Day Consumer, Pt. 1: Feeding, Grooming & Mating Habits
Add to EJ Playlist An animated film by Brian Burman, graduate project for a B.A. in Film Production from S.F. State University (1986). It was supposed to be like one of those dry educational films you saw in Primary School, normally about some exotic population somewhere, but in this case, US. It was several years in the making,..having lived in a "Situationist" household at the time, I was very much under the influence of Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle". A career in animation was not what followed...rath er composition for film and live-action film-making. Some thought this to be quite cynical at the time, but I think many of these ideas still hold water. Transfered from an old VHS Copy.
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The Modern Day Consumer, Pt. 1: Feeding, Grooming & Mating Habits
Add to EJ Playlist An animated film by Brian Burman, graduate project for a B.A. in Film Production from S.F. State University (1986). It was supposed to be like one of those dry educational films you saw in Primary School, normally about some exotic population somewhere, but in this case, US. It was several years in the making,..having lived in a "Situationist" household at the time, I was very much under the influence of Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle". A career in animation was not what followed...rath er composition for film and live-action film-making. Some thought this to be quite cynical at the time, but I think many of these ideas still hold water. Transfered from an old VHS Copy.
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The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello
Add to EJ Playlist Now playing in the YouTube Screening Room: http://www.yout ube.com/ytscree ningroom.
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Nominated for an Oscar and for a BAFTA award, Jasper Morello is a short feature made in a unique style of silhouette animation developed by director Anthony Lucas and inspired by the work of authors Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne. In the frontier city of Carpathia, Jasper Morello discovers that his former adversary Doctor Claude Belgon has returned from the grave. When Claude reveals that he knows the location of the ancient city of Alto Mea where the secrets of life have been discovered, Jasper cannot resist the temptation to bring his own dead wife Amelia back. But they are captured by Armand Forgette, leader of the radical Horizontalist anti-technology movement, who is determined to reanimate his terrorist father Vasco. As lightning energises the arcane machineries of life in the floating castle of Alto Mea, Jasper must choose between having his beloved restored or seeing the government of Gothia destroyed. Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his Plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself.
Also winner of the Grand Prix award at the Annecy Animation Festival, Jasper has also won the top honours at the Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival, Best Animation at Flickerfest 2005, Best Animation at the Sydney Film Festival Dendy awards and Best Animation at Toronto worldwide shorts.
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The Mascot (part 1) - Ladislas Starewicz (Puppet Love)
Add to EJ Playlist The best stop-motion film ever made, IMHO. Actually, one of the best short films ever made!
Starewicz had become a master animator by 1933, incorporating techniques never used before and rarely since (such as moving the puppets during the actual exposure to create blurring for fast movement). His use of rear-screen projection is also surprisingly effective.
But more important than these technical details is the great humor of his writing and his sensitivity to character. Each of the dozens of puppets in this film is imbued with a convincing personality; none more so than the title character, known as Fétiche in France and Duffy in England and the U.S. I think the scene of him hanging in a car's rear window is one of the funniest and most poignant scenes you'll find in any film. The character was so successful Starewicz starred him in four more films - if anyone has them, please contact me!
We have CGI now, but all Starewicz had was an imagination that wouldn't take "no" for an answer. Whatever he wanted to see on the screen, he created. And he wanted to see some truly bizarre stuff - every imaginable piece of scrap is called up for service: old shoes, chicken bones, utensils, broken glasses, dolls, monkeys, rats...nothing was off limits.
A sweet, funny, and also eerie film that should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in animation. Or film, for that matter.
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Tale Of Tales Part I
Add to EJ Playlist Absolutely brilliant animation film by Yuri Norstein (USSR, 1979). In 2003 at Laputah Animation Festival in Tokyo 140 directors and critics from all over the world called it the second best film of all times!
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The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten
Add to EJ Playlist I have a book out! http://www.amaz on.com/gp/produ ct/0375868593/r ef=as_li_qf_sp_ asin_il_tl?ie=U TF8&tag=chirska -20&linkCode=as 2&camp=1789&cre ative=9325&crea tiveASIN=037586 8593. Now, about this cartoon: The tale of a small child named Emmeline who's forgotten by absolutely everyone... even the postman.
Written, illustrated, and animated by myself back in 2005.
Narrated by Tim Jones.
Music by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com .
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