Dax tells of the time he woke up inside a dream.
Bonus below: A Day With Dax
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Psychedelic Blues
3 NovPeter Stampfel tells the story of how the freak folk band, Holy Modal Rounders first got together.
Cee Cee’s Bedtime Stories
27 Oct“Cee Cee’s Bedtime Stories” is a series of animated documentary shorts. Recorded at a bar, Cee Cee candidly recalls the days of her wild youth.
In this series, we have “The First Time Cee Cee Did Acid” and “Cee Cee’s Vacation.”
By Joy + Noelle.
Pas a Deux – Gerrit van Dijk
26 OctThe eternal male archetype with its many forms goes on a dance with the eternal female archetype with its many forms, shape-shifting across the dance floor, in this amusing and very special animation by Gerrit Van Dijk,
Spook Sport (1940)- Mary Ellen Bute
24 Oct
In the spirit of Halloween, this week’s post features spooks, ghosts and bats in Mary Ellen Bute’s experimental animated film from 1940. Mary Ellen Bute was a groundbreaking filmmaker in her own right, but her gender makes her contributions to early experimental cinema all the more powerful. Unfortunately, the you tube upload incorrectly labels Norman MacLaren as the director (the fabulous Mac Laren was indeed an animator on the film, but direction was all Ms. Bute’s). Just look at how awesome she was!
Bloc Party
24 OctSeems like these guys have a pretty serious budget for animation and are not afraid of variety.
Matthew Stephenson: They Both Explode
20 OctA short hallucinatory tale of consumption, sorrow, redemption and vomit.
Matthew describes the creation process:
The film was made mostly out of card and found objects and shot using a primitive multiplane system made from a desk, some picture-frames and an old pillow case. I used Dragon software and a second hand Lumix FZ50 camera. It was all done ‘in camera’ so there is no compositing or anything; what you see is what the camera saw, lying on the floor, looking up through panes of glass with lights shining down on it.
No Brain
17 OctThere are many flavors of psychedelia, and one–I think–is thoughtlessness. In these videos, there’s not too much to contemplate, but I’d say each is a pleasure to watch. Though I can’t recall the source, a few simple words from an album review still stick with me years and years later, “Give your brain the night off.” This weekend I provide you with three samples of 3D animation to do just that.
