I have a poor VHS copy of a couple of late 80s editions of the Intl. Tournee of Animation. There are some fantastic shorts on there, not (necessarily) for kids, and a couple that are definitely not for kids. I need to get that tape digitized before it dissolves.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i like how the limited frames in anime give it a kind of theatricality & intensity. maybe this recommendation wld earn me the ire of hardcore anime heads but if yr interested in animation as an artform i wld recommend watching at least some of fooly cooly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8VhWf5ziM
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Did anyone else ever own "The Mind's Eye"? It was just CGI demos & shorts mooshed together to new age music. It was my frigging favorite thing in the world when I was a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRoS3n5Cn80&feature=fvw
Some hippie once was talking to me about it once like it was some stoner grail, which cracked me up! It's so old-fashioned looking, and I guess 'cause I grew up with it – my even more conservative aunt & uncle gave it to my family – it just seems so Mormon to me.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i am interested in but have never seen chronopolis by piotr kamler
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
A great one a friend introduced me to is the totally bonkers Korean movie "Aachi and Ssipak" – the world is addicted to a drug called juicy bars that's made out of human shit, and it causes mutant babies, so it basically deals with the aftermath of this. IIRC it was pretty funny – definitely entertaining. And weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSamzE6qnKM
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Or maybe the drugs kept you from shitting? I forget. Something about shit was valuable. Mostly it just looked good.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
it does look "totally bonkers," in a good way (except for the use of waste as a plot device -- there's no need for an animated companion to the human centipede)
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
wow & lol at that minds eye video abbott. clearly i do not have a profound understanding of mormonism. music is p fruity, but i like that next to the animation you barely notice it
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Abbott I was trying to find that movie but I couldn't, as the search terms "blue babies" AND "shit bars" brought up no relative hits...
― The Porcupine Captain With A Crew of White Rabbits (Viceroy), Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like stop motion guys like Bros. Quay and Jan Svankmajer belong on here. My youngest brother reminded me that I let him watch "Alice" with me when he was seven. "You're the one responsible for ruining my mind!"
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDizcCTUGdw
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgJ-yOhpYIM
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrKgyY5aDvA
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
^w/ amazing terry riley
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Y1PhOt6sM
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
"you should have had sushi in bombay, it would have been better"
i love how good that is
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is awesome!
― T-Rex's erotic imagination (Z S), Sunday, 14 November 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i was tempted to post yr horse gif but i guess anything <10 seconds isn't a 'movie'
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
can't overstate how much i'd love to see some of this stuff in the cinema. more john whitney w/ more amazing music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7h0ppnUQhE
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the inside of harry smith's head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh0vVK9LpZU
need to see the full version of this. i'm curious as to how much these early guys knew each other's work.
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Bill Plympton's I Married a Strange Person and Mutant Aliens. prefer the former, but they're both pretty terrific.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Sunday, 14 November 2010 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
an animated companion to the human centipede
HEEEELLLLLLLOOOOOOOO new screen name
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 14 November 2010 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Trying to find clips, zanything on a Bulgarian animated short called "Konservfilm", which I saw on Ch4 years and years ago. It shows this weird dystopian society, inhabited by tins of fruit(!) Every so often there is a coup, and all of the fruit tins have to change their labels from strawberres to okra or whatever. The humour is v twisted, and at times it is quite tragic. towards the end of the film, the little cans:
http://www.bgmovies.info/images/movies/Konservfilm_1990.jpg
...seem to take on this air of pitiful endless martyrdom, it's hard to explain w/o seeing it, really. It's, I guess, moving.
the above image is the only pic I could find, I could find no ref to it on google video, imdb has a page w/a couple of user reviews, so I guess it exists, and someone else saw it besides me. If anyone knows of anywhere this thing can be located, let me know plz, I'd love to see it again.
― Pashmina, Sunday, 14 November 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Love Whitney's Arabesque - saw it a few years ago at a warehouse cinema and it was absolutely fantastic.
Also want to third When the Wind Blows - horribly moving/frightening post-nuclear bomb drop animation from the creator of The Snowman.
Although: Its one of those movies that leaves it very ambiguous as to if and when the characters die in it.They die. Sorry about that.
Channel 4 used to show loads of adult-oriented adult shorts during night-time programming, but this is the only one that stands out in my memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3GJmkUZlyo
― emil.y, Sunday, 14 November 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
*adult-oriented animated shorts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Rj7nn0ZVs the trailer doesn't really do it justice but this movie is terrific and yeah, the review calling it a hitchcock anime film is otm.
― hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 14 November 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
just saw on youtube an animated CGI clip of dolphins -- temporarily -- saving surfers from a shark attack. one of my biggest fears brought to life, via animtion (tho CGI-technology isn't the type of animation i was referring to).
i'm going to check out each of these clips movies (viewed many already). also: lots of cool russian animation films, e.g., the cow (a "paint-on-glass" technique?) and the glass harmonica (tbf, i've skimmed both of these, so i can't vouch for them in full or promise they're free of offensive content).
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 14 November 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Just watched The Cow the other day, actually, it's really beautiful.
― emil.y, Sunday, 14 November 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Everything by Ladislaw Starewicz, here's The Cameraman's Revenge :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC0Sb6pLvI
― Blackening Electrical Connections (Matt #2), Sunday, 14 November 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool World and Bebe's Kids are two of my guilty pleasures because I grew up watching them on cable. Not that they're necessarily great by any means, but they are entertaining on a campy level.
― That's not a "laugh track", it's an audience and you're in it. (MintIce), Sunday, 14 November 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Two that are probably aimed at kids but which probably connect just as much, if not more, with adults: Nausicaa (as do many of Miyazaki's films for that matter), and Wall-E, which undoubtedly got much inspiration from Miyazaki as well.
― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
check out all the films of Satoshi Kon who passed away only a few months agodude was amazing * Perfect Blue * Millennium Actress * Tokyo Godfathers * Paranoia Agent * Paprika
― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
miyazaki has earned widespread affection now, lupin is the most adult & good fun too. another anime i really enjoyed was tekkonkinkreet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWxUVcXyPA
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
also i'm seriously jealous of emily's big screen whitney viewing
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Me too. Best thrift store find of the year for me was "Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art" by John Whitney. Features lots of great full-color stills of his stuff, very detailed explanations of how he made his motion graphics, and even a BASIC program at the end!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Really sad that his films are still unreleased on DVD. Would <3 for the Whitney family to have a McLaren-sized box set release. Or at least a nice sampler. Same for Harry Smith and Jordan Belson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANliclGDsDY&playnext=1&list=PL89FCD63D82A840C4&index=5
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"The Happy Prince" from 1974 - it is what it is, but something about the way it's done still destroys me by the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqYIQ_41RTo&playnext=1&list=PL59048CB16AA9B873&index=8
― Kim, Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Major cosine to satoshi kon reccomendaysh
― irritable bol syndrome (s1ocki), Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
As posted on exp. film thread but apt for this one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMY-3Wg3eE0&feature=player_embedded#!
― The Beatles (admrl), Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't even know there was an experimental film thread! thanks. that video is cool, too.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
avant-garde, experimental, surreal film
― The Beatles (admrl), Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
a couple of interesting films from down under to check out: "Mary & Max", and "$9.99".
The latter freaked me out more than it probably intended.
― The Great Cool Lulu who sleeps in Riley... (dog latin), Monday, 15 November 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
lots of stuff to check here, wow.
waltz with bashir is one of my favourite films in memory really, i've seen it about 10 times and would watch it another 10. is there anything specifically like that? people say persepolis but it isn't really that similar...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 15 November 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i've never read/heard anyone say persepolis is like WWB. both great, but totally different, in animation style at least (both have a pretty somber tone tbf).
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 15 November 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Ronan, not an animation, but you could do worse than check out the comics of Joe Sacco maybe? I've just discovered him and his cartoon-reportage on Palestine/Israel is fab!
― The Great Cool Lulu who sleeps in Riley... (dog latin), Monday, 15 November 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
haha I was going to rec the same thing. Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde are both great. Perseoplis was a good movie but comparing it to Waltz w/Bashir seems a little...unimaginative.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 15 November 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah totally, i sort of knew that when people compared. i can't stress how much i liked waltz with bashir, it's like my personal ideal film.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw some of joe sacco's stuff and sort of read the covers when i worked in a bookstore back in 07, always found it interesting. it's sort of weird, i've never really known anything about graphic novels or animated films, but i am pretty sure i really like them based on the tiny few that permeate the mainstream which i end up seeing and liking.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno if it's been listed yet, really enjoyed 9. Probably adolescent aimed.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i love this stuff, wish there was more out there...
Fear(s) of the Dark / Peur(s) du noir is cool. love the animated Charles Burns.
Grave of the Fireflies is devastating, adult anime though it's about kids (orphans surviving in WWII Japan).
and i'll stan for both American Pop and Heavy Metal, warts'n'boobies'n'all
― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Only Yesterday looks great. Thx for the recs ptt.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 28 November 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Tango
― Miss Garrote (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 November 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― Miss Garrote (Eric H.), Saturday, November 27, 2010 10:37 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
Whoa, that ruled! And it was directed by the guy who did the Close (to the Edit) video!
― Disgraced Homo Cop (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 28 November 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
thank you, Eric! i've wanted to see this again for ages. tried YouTube a few times, to no avail. maybe because of the FFN from 3:40 on. NSFW!
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Sunday, 28 November 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, i need to check out marquis
― old LOKO heads (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Just saw Fantastic Planet for the first time and it blew my mind. I loved it, no caveats, and will be checking out everything that Laloux has ever done in the near future, pretty much. Great soundtrack, too.
― www.altavista.com (Z S), Saturday, 15 January 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanking the people who mentioned it on this thread
― www.altavista.com (Z S), Saturday, 15 January 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
SO glad you liked FP! It is a favorite! I heard the book by Anton Wul was good, too...someone stole it from the library, though...
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Saturday, 15 January 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I am stoked for "The Illusionist," it is coming to the theater here in a few weeks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElAeVdDCDs
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Saturday, 15 January 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
begone dull care - Norman McLaren
Thanks for recommending this!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 15 January 2011 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, that Debussy clip is amazing too. I added Allegro non Troppo to my Ziplist.
(I'm also fond of Alice and Fantastic Planet. Loving this thread.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 15 January 2011 08:05 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG Allegro Non Troppo! I saw that in the cinema in the early 90s and loved it. Such sad parts!
― Stargazey Pi (Trayce), Saturday, 15 January 2011 08:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I just watched Mia and the Migoo and I am pretty sure it is FOR kids. I say this because it was just painfully didactic with the most and worst explainy dialogue! But it looked really good. Maybe one to turn the sound off & light a J at home.
― I'll show you the power of laughter! (Abbbottt), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
Probably the best thing about it was the colors + the nice impressionistic backdrops – hard to find pics that show that tho
http://static.euronews.net/images_old/08/W300px_cinema-MiaMigou.jpg
― I'll show you the power of laughter! (Abbbottt), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
I saw a dubbed version & I would like to think maybe the translation is what made the dialogue so unbearably bad – but I doubt it!
― I'll show you the power of laughter! (Abbbottt), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
One of the claymation pieces I love from the Tournee of Animation I mentioned upthread is up. Csaba Varga, Luncheon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMzx_e6l0cM
― frogbs went a-courtin' (WmC), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
akira
― cozen, Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
https://hyperallergic.com/369024/a-trove-of-early-japanese-animated-films-is-now-online/
― 20-lol pileup (WilliamC), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 11:23 (seven years ago) link