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Ferenc Cakó: Ashes (1996)
25 Feb
Gloomy visions from the Hungarian sand animation master.
Quote from Cakó:
I try to reach a little deeper, down to more social aspects in a rather strong, almost political way, just like in Ash, which was darkened by my mother’s death.
He also has an interesting claim:
It is also remarkable that Eastern Europe brings much more exciting films than the Swiss or the Swedish. Because what excitement can there be in welfare and tranquility? On the other hand, the Russians and the Czechs make very good films which are exciting in form, for example, Svankmayer, who I love.
Sticky
19 FebExiled from the tropical paradise where they evolved, a tiny population of remarkable stick insects dodged extinction by hiding under a single windswept bush on the world’s tallest sea stack for 80 years. Thanks to a dedicated team of scientists they’re now living safely in captivity, but when can they go home?
Keep in touch with its progress over at facebook.com/StickyShortFilm and if you know of a festival that would be a good fit, do please let us know. We’d love to hear from you.
Stephen Arthur: Transfigured (1998)
11 Feb
Stephen X. Arthur took 3 years to make this from 80 paintings by Jack Shadbolt.
Kathy Rose: Mirror People (1974)
4 Feb
Kathy Rose did all the drawings upside down and went from the first drawing to the last without key poses and inbetweens.
In the 1980s and 1990s Rose created projection performance pieces (excerpt from Oriental Interplay):
Jeff Scher: Lost and Found (2007)
28 Jan
Warning: epilepsy triggers.
Jeff calls the color variation style in this film “psychadelichrome”. Originally published in an NY Times blog.
Whitney Alexander: Western Sunrise
14 JanVery smart and efficient way of using painterly filters. The intentionally rough 3D models are brought to life by the teeming brushstrokes.
Whitney has also directed this quite remarkable alternate reality romp:
http://vimeo.com/67556622
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