Straying Little Red Riding Hood
Pecoraped (Ikue Sugidono and Miyako Nishio). Japan, 2007.
In the fabric of folk tales, there is a sixth dimension that connects distant universes. Little Red Riding Hood has the ability to travel throught them like someone who taking a stroll in the woods.
The Big Store
Lars Arrhenius, Johannes Müntzing. Sweden, 2008.
On September 11, [...]
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Some of the best animation short films I’ve seen in 2008 (and 3)
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Some of the best animation short films I’ve seen in 2008 (2 of 3)
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Glow
Jo Lawrence. UK, 2007.
Inspired by the true story of Grace Freyer, one of the “Radium Girls” who worked for the Radium Dial Company in New Jersey in the twenties painting watch faces with radioactive material.
La Vita Nuova
Christophe Gautry, Arnaud Demuynck. France, 2008.
Besides being the title of Dante’s first known work, La vita nuova is a [...]
Some of the best animation short films I’ve seen in 2008 (1 of 3)
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A6/A9
Johannes Schiehsl. Germany, 2007.
An everyday landscape might hide indescribable surprises. A forceful visual metaphor as horrifying as it is beautiful, taken to its utmost logical conclusion
Bolides
François-Xavier Bologna, Théophile Bondoux, Lyonel Charmette, Vincent Le Ster. France, 2008.
Adventure is found where you would least expect it. The secret life of an old people’s [...]
The three Goodman’s Laws
Posted in animation on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the magnificent column that he writes every month in Animation World Magazine, Martin Gooman (in june 2007) pointed to some very interesting thoughts on the creation and evolution of the most celebrated animated characters. As discourse strategy, Goodman converts the religious beliefs in metaphor from the different ways in which characters are developed and [...]
The Real Revolution in Toyland
Posted in animation on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Czechoslovakia was the birthplace of some of the most original and interesting animation films of the second half of the twentieth century. Although who has gone down in history as the true master of classic Czech animation is Jiri Trnka (1912-1969) —heir to the poetry of traditional Czech puppets and precursor of an ethics [...]
Some of the best animation short films I’ve seen in 2007 (and 3)
Posted in animation on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Mirage
Youngwoong Jang. USA, 2006.
A bio-machenical robot fights for survival capturing water that is vital for him drop by drop, not knowing that he is really submerged in water. A tale with Zen echoes of the absurdity of accumlating desires and false necessities.
Nettalk
David Rice. USA, 2007.
An invasive experiment on acquiring language. Warning: watching this short film [...]
Some of the best animation short films I’ve seen in 2007 (2)
Posted in animation on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Jeu
Georges Schwizgebel. Switzerland-Canada, 2007.
From beginning to end, Jeu is a continuing whirlwind of images in constant change. This stunningly beautiful metaphor for the current everyday life’s speed confirms the extraordinary talent for exploring life’s geometry, and the undisputable master skill in the use of paint of one of the key names in contemporary animation; that [...]
Some of the best animation short films I’ve seen in 2007 (1)
Posted in animation on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Alter Ego
Kuba Gryglicki. Poland, 2007.
In a ramshackle house somewhere in the wilds, a mysterious man tries to discover his real nature: is he a buffoon with delusions of grandeur, or a fallen king? Pure European fantastique in an ingenious and disturbing variation of the topic of the doppleganger. Who does look at us when we [...]
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