Chris Koelsch made this slyly humorous space tale by appropriating footage from an old sixties science fiction cartoon called Space Angel. He put the footage to his own wise uses and came up with something memorable.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
The Thumbsucker Cutter – A Film by Philip Brett
Philip Brett’s short film is an unsettling hybrid of puppets and animation. It’s dollhouse weird, full of shadows and garish colors, blood and clowns. Horrific. It’s based on the tales of naughty children by Heinrich Hoffman. The music is by the Vendetta Orchestra.
The Last Harvest – A Film by Heidi Phillips
Canadian experimental filmmaker Heidi Phillips made this little ghost story film that could almost as easily be called a memory film. Mike Everleth over at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film has some good comments in his review of the film.
Rockboistwo – Street Art Film by Marvin Tiberious
‘It ain’t about being the best. It’s about being multiple.’ Marvin Tiberious makes the best films about street art that I have seen from anywhere in the world.
Everything is a Remix Part 2
Kirby Ferguson continues his Everything is a Remix series by showing us how many of our most cherished and familiar films combine elements taken from or inspired by other films to create their seemingly unique experiences. Sometimes, shots are reproduced almost exactly. Yet, the movie industry is extremely aggressive in prosecuting or suing anyone who tries to use their material.
Everything is a Remix Part 1
Part 1 of Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix series. The techniques of copy, combining and transforming existing material is common to all artistic creation.
China: The Roots of Madness – 1967 Documentary
This film was written and conceived by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White. It covers 175 years of Chinese history, showing the turbulent forces that led to the victory of communism. The film is rumored to have had CIA involvement with its making and it has been harshly criticized for being blatantly dismissive of its subject and casually racist. But of course the harsh attitude toward its subject makes sense when placed within the context of a U.S. government trying to resist the spread of communism in the sixties.
Edge of the Universe – A Film by Justin Rosewell
Justin Rosewell made this odd little science fiction tale about a young man who senses something wrong with the world.
Tyran Goes to the Sea – Animation by Yura Boguslavsky
Russian animator Yura Boguslavsky made this film with children and adults in his animation workshop. It’s a lunatic and irrational story about a king with a wild beard and some very strange fish people who live in Cardboardia.
Man in Space – 1955 Disney Documentary
Disney’s lavish history of rockets leading right up to a pre-Sputnik 1955!
Parts 2 – 8 after the jump
The Last City on Earth – Brilliant Sci-Fi Animation by Ricardo Mercado
Ricardo Mercado made this fantastic machinima-like science fiction film about a city in a perpetual state of war and an outsider who has a message to deliver. It’s wild and beautiful and really feels like science fiction!
The Backwater Gospel – An Animation Workshop Film
The Animation Workshop produced this dark and wonderful little tale of a grim reaper who shows up in a town full of fools.
The Olive – A Film by Samira Eskandarfar
Samira Eskandarfar made this beautiful and mysterious film in Tehran, Iran. It features childhood memories, sensations and impressions of family and love for a grandmother.
Roland’s Adventures in Wonderland – A Film by Istvan Horkay
Artist Istvan Horkay made this strangely mesmerizing film that combines Alice in Wonderland, the elephant man, 19th century theater, silent film, modern computer graphics, children’s illustration and digital readouts. There are three films going on at the same time in a beautiful triptych.
Visions of the Future – Science Fiction Art of the Second Golden Age
This is an amazing and obsessive immersion in science fiction illustrations from what is known as the Second Golden Age. It’s mainly lots of cool science fiction imagery from the 1970s and 1980s.
Part 2
Parts 3 – 5 after the jump