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Ryan Larkin

31 Jul

Ryan Larkin (1943-2007) was a Canadian animator, who in 1969 was nominated for the Academy Award for is short psychedelic animation “Walking”. Three years later he released the acclaimed film “Street Music”,  again, a tripy colorful short film, hand drawn with no narrative, but with a  distinct and simple theme.

Soon after that, Larkin fell into severe drug abuse, alcoholism and homelessness. In 2002, another Canadian animator, Chris Landreth, Made this short film about him and won an Oscar for it.

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Alice in Wonderland (1966)

24 Jul

In 1966, the height of the psychedelic revolution, this television-play was made by British theater director Jonathan Miller. There is nothing Disney-like in this film, no talking animals and no flamboyant settings. Still, it has a strong haunting atmosphere of a deep plunge into the unconscious of the Victorian mind. The soundtrack is by Ravi Shankar.

Follow the white rabbit!

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Attack of The Killer Ants

17 Jul

It sounds tacky: an unexplained cosmic event causes ants to increase their intelligence and try to take over the world. But the movie “Phase IV”, 1974, By Saul Bass (who is best known for his opening titles and posters for Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and many others) is a slow, poetic and extremely beautiful film. I loved the way he films actual living ants and 1960’s futuristic technology: from squeaking gigantic computers to geodesic domes. will the end of life as we know it will come from these little creatures? or is their technocratic, authoritarian society only a symbol of our own?

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You Look Familiar

10 Jul

For some people, drugs are an escape. This clip may represent some of them. it also reminded me the surrealistic and even psychedelic look of animation in the 1920’s.

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – “Lion in a Coma”

3 Jul

Ori Toor had just finished Shenkar A of Design, and this is his final project. Shenkar’s annual exhibition will open on 15/7/2010.

This is gorgeous, Ori! Good luck in real life, and may you bring color and psychedelic goodness to all your future projects!

(Thanks Matan, for the link!)

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The Rotten Fruit Tardis – interactive animation from James Paterson

26 Jun

James Paterson

James Paterson (Canada) is a visual artist that blends hand-dawned stream-of-consciousness animation with digital media and interactivity, to create complex environments as gallery installations or on-screen web projects. the above piece is a non interactive video of a project that can be more fully experienced here: http://presstube.com/project.php?id=259.

I recommend installing his trippy screensaver: http://www.presstube.com/project.php?id=218

His personal and collaborative works have been shown at the Design Museum in London, London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Taipei, the Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

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