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The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) 2008-04-12 18:45:52 This film is based upon the ancient Arabian character of Nasruddin, a figure from the classic texts of '1001 Arabian Nights'. The Thief
and the Cobbler is esotic and extravagant. The sheer beauty and subtlety of the simplest details are breathtaking. Generally, The Thief and the Cobbler remind me of the finest mimics of Buster Keaton.The scenes are very intricate and it's all hand-drawn and painted cel animation. The Thief and the Cobbler is the best animated long film I've ever seen!I hate Warner Bros for having stopped the work of Richard William.Williams conceived the project (as a nearly silent movie) as early as 1964 but he started this ambitious animated film only in 1968 together with Art Babbit, Grim Natwick, Ken Harris, Emery Hawkins and other great animators. The film was origina
Meow (1982) 2008-04-11 15:08:45 Meow is a funny political tale which won the Jury's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.Marcos Magalhãe show us the effects of american cultural invasion. The story is simple and essential, the animation too.He also makes Animando , a documentary about various animation tecniques.
The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903) 2008-04-13 14:17:09 This film is significant as a precursor to Porter's groundbreaking classic The Great Train Robbery, which combined state of the art editing techniques to tell a 12 minute narrative story and is notable for its early use of matched shot editing, with a close-up of a female customer's ankle and a longer establishing shot used in combination with each other. This close-up insert is an example not only of the visual pleasure afforded by the 'cinema of attractions' but of the early cinema's voyeuristic treatment of the female body. Despite the fact that their primary purpose is not to emphasize narrative developments, these shots' attribution to a character in the film distinguishes them from the totally unmotivated close-up we viewed in The Great Train Robb Read more:Shoe
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Mushroom 2008-04-13 03:40:55 By Jennifer Tong.
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No title 2008-04-15 06:09:31 Simone Pieralli. He worked as an illustrator, graphic director and colorist. He was the editor of Funnies and Hangar.
Stanley (2000) 2008-04-15 06:08:47 Suzie Templeton will intrigue audiences with her darkly comic film Stanley
. While his wife wreaks violence and death in the kitchen, Stanley finds life and love in a cabbage he is growing in his barren back yard.This short features just two human puppets and shows deep feeling and melancholy.It's her first work and every element is already perfect. The background is delivered so well it's amazing. The final punch line is a bit subtle but up till then it's all sublime. Little details, little expressions, little movements tell so much about the inner feelings.
L'Etoile de mer (1928) 2008-04-16 05:18:10 This film is based on a script by Robert Desnos and depicts a couple (Alice Prin and André de la Rivière) acting through scenes that are shot out of focus.Originally a silent film, recent copies have been dubbed using music taken from Man Ray's personal record collection of the time. The musical reconstruction was by Jacques Guillot and it fitted this film perfectly - haunting and hypnotic.With these loose images, sometimes seen distorted through a glass, Man Ray refuses the authority of the look. We can recognize this choicee also in the editing, which draw out the disjunction between shots, rather than their continuity.You can buy You can buy Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934 and Man Ray (Artists of the 20th Century).
Missile Mouse 2008-04-16 02:27:59 Jake Parker is an employer at the Blu Sky Studios. He has published MissileMouse
Adventures, Agent 44 Art Digest amd in various anthologies.
Not From Concentrate 2008-04-18 02:20:04 Not From Concentrate runs daily in The Diamondback, the independent student newspaper of the University of Maryland, College Park. It is created by Thomas Dobrosielski.
Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902) 2008-04-17 17:13:36 This early silent film is repeatedly declared to be the first science fiction film and is revered as the greatest achievement of stage magician and film pioneer Georges Méliès. Lubin Manufacturing Company released another take on A Trip to the Moon in 1914, written e directed by Vincent Whitman, a work of silent animation which alas did not survive.With a mix of stage tricks, camera tricks and several types of animation, Méliès crafts a surreal fantastic vision of the Moon with great artistic sensibility and the care of a painter. It's almost as though a painting comes to life.Georges Méliès aimed in the film to "invert the hierarchal values of modern French society and hold them up to ridicule in a riot of the carnivalesque." (Alison McMahan)."A Trip to the Moon" is loosely based o Read more:Voyage
Tie shan gong zhu (铁扇公主, 1941) 2008-04-16 15:53:17 Princess Iron Fan is the first feature length animation made in China, just four years after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.It resembles the early 30s Fleischer cartoons because of its strange mix of primitive drawing and imaginative metamorphosis.This film is freely adapted from a classic 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West and it's set during the Tang Dynasty. Wan Brother chose to adapt a popular national legend to renew China’s rich heritage and traditions by extending them into the new world of animation.The novel concerns the hardship and adventures of Buddhist monk Xuanzang and his four disciples. We follow the Monkey King and his friends on their journey to the west. The tale of Princess Iron Fan is one such episode.As they reach Fire Mountain they are unable to pass
Gently Elephant 2008-04-19 03:59:44 Adrian Johnson issued Designed to Help, The Fundamentals of Illustration, 300% Cotton, Pictoplasma : The Character Encyclopaedia, If You Could Do Anything Tomorrow, What Would It Be?, Hand Job, Graphic 11 : Graphic Ha Ha, The Secrets of Digital Illustration : Rotovision.
Scurtă Istorie (Palme d'Or 1957) 2008-04-18 16:28:49 Short History has a dual philosophical content. It's full of ideas and poetry, in a funny short story full of rhythm and imagination.Ian Popescu-Gopo himself admitteded that he tried to start an "anti-Disney rebellion" with his animated films. He know he would be unable to surpass Disney's animation characters in color and beauty, then he tried to be more profound in message and substance: he simplified the form and techniques used. Gopo is, in fact, designed in simple lines.The character is Gopo, an Homo Sapiens, figured in most of his films, and was a reflection of himself, almost a self-portrait. It appears to be a lost creature, an innocent party, not knowing how and why he came about. But as the plot develops he adjusts his outlook and attains the upperhand. He goes trought all the e
Non From Concentrate 2 2008-04-20 03:09:52 Not From Concentrate runs daily in The Diamondback, the independent student newspaper of the University of Maryland, College Park. It is created by Thomas Dobrosielski.
Intolerance (1916) 2008-04-19 16:35:44 This is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history.The film consists of four distinct but parallel stories that demonstrate mankind's intolerance during four different ages in world history. It was made in response to critics who protested against Griffith's previous film, The Birth of a Nation, for its overt racist content, characterizing racism as people's "intolerance" of other people's views.Films were poised between an emphasis upon visual pleasure, 'the cinema of attractions', and story-telling, 'the cinema of narrative integration' but conventions for constructing internally coherent narratives had not yet been established. In the transitional years, between 1907-8 and 1917, the formal elements of film-making all became subsidiary to the narrative, as l Read more:Intolerance
Garden 2008-04-21 02:34:29 By Maki Fujimoto.
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Kiwi (2006) 2008-04-21 02:29:59 Kiwi was created by Dony Permedi, a student in the New York City School of Visual Arts, as his Master's Thesis Animation, with music composed and performed by Tim Cassell.Originally the main character wad going to be a chicken but Permedi found it an obvious choice. So he created Kiwi.The animator's story is that of a kiwi bird who has a dream (he aspires to fly) and is willing to do anything to see it become a reality.This charming short is simple yet so powerful that it sticks in your subconscious.A great example of a dialogue free narrative, which reminds me of the first shorts of Pixar!
Le Vieil Homme et la Mer (1999) 2008-04-22 05:34:07 The old man and the sea, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, won many awards, including the Academy Award for Animated Short Film.Aleksandr Petrov and his son Dmitri Petrov painted each of the 29,000+ frames. They took more than two years of painting on glass sheets. The project was initiated in 1995 after Petrov (who had made his first films in Russia) had his first meeting with Pascal Blais Studio, a Canadian animation studio. The film was partially funded by and was made at their studio. After photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on.The style is analogous to that used in Petrov's other films and can be characterized as a type
Not From Concetrate 3 2008-04-22 02:14:24 Not From Concentrate runs daily in The Diamondback, the independent student newspaper of the University of Maryland, College Park. It is created by Thomas Dobrosielski.
Not From Concentrate 4 2008-04-24 01:37:07 Not From Concentrate runs daily in The Diamondback, the independent student newspaper of the University of Maryland, College Park. It is created by Thomas Dobrosielski.
Sub (2000) 2008-04-23 17:15:37 Sub is an exquisitely-timed, hysterically funny, stunningly expressive story of one sunny afternoon in a cool Italian plaza.It's a strange short: a spare dialogue, a striking illustrative style and a decidedly red aesthetic. Someone will see in the short the decline of the Soviet Empire or a treatise on the vulgarization of mass culture and the decline of religiosity.I'm not sure if it's simply a surreal short about the crew of a miniature submarine attempting to save their captain from being splattered about the ground of a European plaza but I'm sure this film will fascinate you for its inventiveness, its dynamic editing, its continual narrative surprises but most of all for its subversive humor.
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) 2008-04-23 17:10:51 Meshes of the Afternoon
is full of bizarre and creepy surrealist images. It's very poetic and disturbing. It reproduces the way in which the subconscious of an individual will develop, interpret and elaborate an apparently simple and casual incident into a critical emotional experience.Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid wanted to put on film the feeling which a human being experiences about an incident, rather than to record the incident accurately.This short is still one of the most popular of all American experimental films and is a landmark film that has provided an important model, setting the tone and style for other individual efforts over the next decade.The entire film has seen through the eyes of a woman. You cannot ever tell when Maya's character is awake or dreaming. She carries a
Making A Map 2008-04-25 01:55:46 Wakaba Noda issued Making A Map and was awarded with a honorable mention award at Canon New Cosmos of Photography.
The Meatrix (Annecy 2004 Netsurfers Award for Short Films) 2008-04-24 16:54:18 With this short, Free Range Studios wants to criticize the methods of industrial agriculture and to encourage consumers to purchase organic food products and free-range meats.In early 2003, Free Range Graphics invited nonprofit groups around the country to submit proposals for their first-ever Free Range Flash Activism Grant. After reviewing 50 proposals, Free Range awarded the grant to the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), an organization committed to halting factory farms and promoting sustainable agriculture. Their decision to spoof The Matrix was based on the similarities between the film and today’s corporate system of agriculture.Leo, a pig on a seemingly bucolic family farm, is approached by Moopheus, an anthropomorphic bull. Moopheus shows Leo that the fa Read more:Award
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Moving Still (2007) 2008-04-26 14:30:20 This stereoscopic short film was made with an experimental tecnique: Santiago Caicedo de Roux created all the images in a single camera take and mixed them with CG images which build and destroy the city.The routine of the daily train, with the same point of departure, same point of arrival, same route without surprise. You can feel feel the monotony of a recurring journey made too many times.The images passed by outside and you follo the rhythm. Which rhythm do you choose? Are you free to change your lives?
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