Animation Snob Thread (no Disney, no Pixar, no mainstream anime, mention Family Guy and you get kicked out a window), puppet films are allowed

Kevin McTurk's series of samurai horror
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/935772123/the-haunted-swordsman-a-ghost-story-puppet-film?ref=creator_nav

Ferenc Cako's sand animation is really good.

https://youtu.be/QAJGRGYxc98

Jumping Joan by Petra Freeman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KooxsCp_52I

Forgot about this thread. A few I've been enjoying recently:

Not at all new, but I suspect that The Log Driver's Waltz, a National Film Board clip set to a delightful Kate & Anna McGarrigle rendition of a classic Canadian folk song, isn't that well known outside of Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

More recently (and still in Canada), I really liked Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver, an admittedly Disney-esque story made as a collaboration with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, who have performed the score live as an accompaniment to the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcEwCxoxYY&t=2s

I also thought the recent Best Animated Short nominee Revolting Rhymes (based on Roald Dahl) was pretty great. Of course, it lost the Oscar to that stupid Kobe Bryant thing.

Let me try Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

UGH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcEwCxoxYY&t

anyway, its on YouTube

Anyone have opinions on the Thunderbean Animation DVD/blu-ray label? They're doing a lot of really early animation. Apparently some of their stuff is, like, DVD-R w/ no cover art though, and fuck that.

Recently watched a 1990 version of Quest For Olwen, Russian animated for welsh television. Very nice style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QB6EsHAih8

This by Ideya Garanina is the most beautiful animation I've ever seen and it wasn't available when I started this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTzQSxFMyYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fm8Xn_GNHQ

Anyone have opinions on the Thunderbean Animation DVD/blu-ray label? They're doing a lot of really early animation. Apparently some of their stuff is, like, DVD-R w/ no cover art though, and fuck that.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, April 9, 2018 5:05 PM (one week ago)

I would say that they do have high quality but they work very slow. I wouldn't mind owning a blu-ray of Flip the Frog restored but that project has had no updates in forever.

Cool, will check some of their stuff out. My backlog of stuff to watch means all I have is time, anyway.

Saw a couple films circa 1950 by Czech master Jiri Trnka today. This retro will tour after NYC, apparently.

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-puppet-master-the-complete-jiri-trnka/#films

I was just about to post Alison De Vere's The Black Dog, which I came across via Twitter this morning and was blown away by, only to see it upthread. Fantastic film. Been watching a lot of British animated shorts today, Channel 4 had a good thing going for a while there.

I really like this one too, despite the pretty dubious subject matter (and the very dubious Budd Hopkins).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UgJFZSRec

odd trailer for Tezuka's Cleopatra, Tomita soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga4muZbgxsY
also see the trailer for Tezuka's 1001 Nights featuring a man pleasuring a woman by kick-grazing her bottom.

The guy who went on to make Belladonna Of Sadness worked on these!

Giordano Bruno by Vladimir Goncharov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSlWilS-D6w

'Mirai', the new Mamoru Hosada is really good. As in really, really good, probably his best yet. And that's high praise. A delight from beginning to end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3yivaOcJA

whooooa

as vaporwavey adult swim goes....this goes hard

that was great yeah

Attn UK ilxors, BBC4 is doing a night of animation. It's Wallace & Gromit right now, but they promise more obscure stuff as the night goes on.

Watching it now. Morph, Len Lye, animal farm, Bob Godfrey... It's nice but it's a bit basic so far

If you're going to do popular stuff and not include smallfilms or Gerry Anderson then I don't know what. Or focus on the tiny studios and skip the aardman.

The dozen or so films now on are done as individual programmes on my PVR and it's cutting them to bits because the schedule isn't precise enough.

Amazing trailer for A Casa Lobo/The Wolf House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gfk8e_WhM

So, I bought Zeman's 'Invention for Destruction' (that counts, right?), but now I'm worried it's just a renaming of his Jules Verne, which I think I have.

Sigh, yeah it is. Still a awesome film though.

And my old copy was kind of vanilla.

Can we talk about anamolisa

With me? No, I haven't seen it. Kind of want to, although I'm not a Kaufman fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOsdCr3pNE
Un Homme Est Mort by Olivier Cossu of Les Armateurs
http://lesarmateurs-lesite.fr/en/projets/a-man-is-dead/

Sign up to see it here w/English subtitles: http://bit.ly/frenchlaborfilm

I enjoyed that, thanks.

The Korean Film Council has uploaded a 1967 animated take on the classic Hong Gildong story to their YT account (on a sidenote: god, if every country was as good at taking care of its film legacy as South Korea...). It's not a masterpiece or anything, but there's some very good quality slapstick and action in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMY4NA7ONg4

Not really snobby enough for this thread, but Laika's Missing Link, which we saw yesterday, is tremendous.

Laika is always great

still can't believe some of the stuff laika managed to do in stop-motion in the underrated kubo and the two strings, so i'm psyched for the new one for sure

I haven't absolutely loved a Laika film yet, but I think if I were working on movies, that kind of stop-motion is what I'd love to do.

Anomalisa is on film4 tonight. 2016 Oscar winning animation. Not seen it myself but...

L'Animation Independante Japonaise volume 2 - First off, this cost about 45 pounds so I'll understand if you don't rush out to buy it. 8 short films, with French and English subtitles, DVD+Bluray, all region (I think).
I paid so much because I've wanted to see the Keita Kurosaka films for years. His Midori-Ko is by far the longest film (55min), it's like a cross between Eraserhead and Little Otik with a bunch of other crazy stuff thrown in. It's about a vegetable seller girl who discovers a sentient vegetable, cares for it and protects it from neighbors including a fish woman, a frog, an old pervert and girls with fruit shaped heads. It's brilliant. Loved the wrestlers in particular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtwCd7SJaa8
His other film here is 3 minutes of a girl with a shapeshifting face.

Would have liked to buy all his films from his site but there wasn't enough info for me to order with confidence. But check out the pictures.
https://www.midori-ko.com/

Airy Me by Yoko Kuno is one of my favorites because the lovely sad music by Cuushe (never heard of this band but sounds really promising). Here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ5QvrGxTnQ

And And by Mirai Mizue has colored shapes moving around, much more impressively kaleidoscopic than her other film here.

In A Pig's Eye by Atsushi Wada is about a family living next to an enormous sleeping pig. Dad covers himself in pork slices. Mother can't get grandpa upstairs because his socks are so slippy. Huge pig shits out an old lady. Dog hides lipstick.
I know this kind of animation is very time consuming so it's funny to imagine animators like these telling people what they've been working on so long.

There are 3 volumes of this series. This company (Carte Blanche?) makes similar animation anthologies from other countries too.

^saw the Mizue volume of this; holy shit it's insane and complex and beautiful and brainfrying.

Also finally got around to the recobbled Thief and the Cobbler. Pretty easy to understand how this never found an audience: it's visually an awe-inspiring art film and thematically made for small children. The plot is abysmally boring but the animation feels nearly computer created in its precision and buttery smoothness. Easy to love, hard to recommend.

I think I'd maybe show hesitant viewers the ending, which is incredible.

https://www.adultswim.com/videos/primal/spear-and-fang

Good night, children/ Spokojnoj Noch, Malyshi! (1999) by Norstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxkkE6tdQc4
Extraordinary technique and the smiling rabbit is so cute.

Piotr Kamler's claymation masterpiece Chronopolis is sort of like a dreary Fantastic Planet, minus the plot.

saw this screened last night, v much worth a look

The Hungarian film Ruben Brandt, Collector is up on UK/Ireland Netflix now (not sure about other locations) and is definitely worth a look. I saw it at an animation festival not long ago and loved it, but was unsure about the ending... good reason for a second watch!

I didn't know Kamler did Claymation. The one I saw was 2d animation of a ball bouncing on stairs. Very surreal.

DID NOT know Laika was Vinton's studio and that they forcibly ousted him
https://tedium.co/2019/12/17/holiday-tv-alternatives/

whoa, that's messed up. had no idea, and i'm a big Laika fan!

yeah, same. it's a huge bummer.