This is an animated adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s marvelous book, ‘In the Night Kitchen.’ It was directed by Gene Deitch in 1987.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSBAADKHBk
In the Night Kitchen: 1987 Animation by Gene Deitch
Category Archives: Animation
Jam Tomorrow: Animation by Hayley Jukes
London animator Hayley Jukes made this stop-motion portrayal of an artist dealing with the various problems encountered when everything in one’s world contains life. Animators give this life to things and can’t always control the outcome. I particularly like the untied sneakers, the coffee urns, and the interesting sofa. Also, I just realized today that some of the music seems to be from a circus. Jukes appears to be making something in a simple way, framing shots so that she can perform and animate in what appears to be a single-handed effort. But she has a natural sense of composition that interests me for its ability to convey a mood. This is not the kind of film one makes to impress people. It’s the kind of film one makes to express something. It has that directness of technique and enthusiasm for mechanical discovery that I see in old avant-garde films of the 1920s and 30s. Jukes is using a very analog fun with cameras and objects style in a digital era and has the requisite talent for all true animators: the ability to imbue things with life.
http://vimeo.com/39724250
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: Oscar Winning Short Animation
This is the 2011 Oscar winning short animation, ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.’ It’s the first film from Moonbot Studios in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was co-directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
The film is also an iPad app that combines animation with an interactive picture book narrative.
Salma: Tragedy in a War Torn City
This is an animation by Anders Friis Christiansen, Martin Sand Vallespir, Kirsten R. Grann, Michael Nielsen, Astrid M. Lauridsen, and Rikke Skovgaard of the Animation Workshop in Denmark. A young girl loses her father in a war-torn city after an accident with a cluster bomb.
Pereval: 1988 Soviet Science Fiction Animation by Vladimir Tarasov
Humans have crash-landed on an alien planet. Sixteen years later, they send a small search party consisting of their children – born at the time of the crash – back toward the broken ship. The young members of the party make their way through a hostile and surreal landscape that holds surprises for them. Finding the ship well-preserved gives one of the young people an important connection to his past and to his origin.
This film was directed by Vladimir Tarasov and was adapted from a novel by Kir Bulychev.
A Colour Box: 1935 Abstract Direct Paint on Film Animation by Len Lye
