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Director: Henry Selick
Date: 1975
Rating: ★
Review:
Made by Henry Selick (of later ‘James and the Giant Peach‘ and ‘Coraline’ fame’) at Syracuse University ‘Tube Tales’ is a rather experimental short about the influence of television.
The film features a couple watching a television set, which vomits numerous adverts out on the two. The most idiotic is one on welding. Selick’s designs are angular, and pretty ugly, and with its mere three minutes the short overstays its welcome big time.
Watch ‘Tube Tales’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘Tube Tales’ is available on the DVD ‘Giants’ First Steps’
Director: Paul Driessen
Release date: 1975
Rating: ★★★
Review:
‘An Old Box’ is Paul Driessen’s own variation on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale ‘The Little Match Girl’.
In his own film a poor man paints an old box in order to entertain people, but he is at the wrong corner of the town, and nobody passes by, while a short distance away a county fair takes place.
In this short Driessen introduces his idiosyncratic way of showing background art only when necessary. Thus lines indicating backgrounds appear from and dissolve into nothingness as we progress from scene to scene.
Likewise, Driessen’s color use is very limited, emphasizing the most important elements. Only in the very end the animator bursts into a fantastical multi-colored perspective animation before returning to the prevailing depressing grays of the rest of the short.
Watch ‘An Old Box’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘An Old Box’ is available on the DVD ‘Des histoires pas comme les autres’
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Release Date: 1975
Rating: ★★★
Review:
As the title implies, this short film is a study in perspectives. It also seems to address the arbitrariness of things, as we see a walking woman change into herself, into skaters and into a running dog, whenever our perspective of her changes. The film uses effective piano music by Bach.
‘Perspectives’ introduces several aspects of Schwizgebel’s mature style: the painted canvas, the rotoscoped movements, the constant changing of perspectives, the prominent shadows and his mastery of metamorphosis. In his next films Schwizgebel would expand on this technique, which would eventually lead to such masterpieces as ‘La jeune fille et les nuages’ (2000) and ‘L’Homme sans ombre’ (2004).
Watch ‘Perspectives’ yourself and tell me what you think:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzU1MzkzOTY=.html
‘Perspectives’ is available on the DVD ‘Les Peintures animées de Georges Schwizgebel’
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