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  • Cat Soup

    Cat Soup

    Cat Soup (Nekojiru-So, 2001) “is an animated short film directed by Tatsuo Sato.
    The surreal black comedy follows an anthropomorphic kitten on his travel to the land of the dead and back in an effort to save his sister’s soul.”.

    Requires Flash Player

  • The Sky Crawlers

    The Sky Crawlers

    “You always have the option to change the road you travel every day
    Even if the road is the same you can see different things
    Isn’t this enough to live?
    Or rather, may not be enough?”

    The Sky Crawlers (Sukai Kurora, 2008) “is set in an alternate history where, although the world is at peace, in order to ease the tension of a populace accustomed to war and aggression, private corporations contract fighter pilots to stage combat operations against each other for show.”.

    Music by Kenji Kawai. Listen: Main Theme (ending).

    Above: screenshot from the official trailer, detail.

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  • Grickle

    We Sing The Forest Electric by Grickle “Just north of where I grew up there was an awesome bay on Lake Superior called Batchawana Bay.

    You could walk out for what felt like a mile and the water would still only be up to your knees.
    The water was warm and the sand was perfect.
    I miss that place.”.

    (Graham Annable)

    Grickle. Illustrations and animations by Graham Annable.

    Above: We Sing The Forest Electric, animation, headline.

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  • Agosto


    August
    is the coldest month of the year
    winter moves six months forward
    and this is not the South Pole
    here is not the South Pole

    August
    The alarm clock breaks the silence
    Someone is on vacation
    and she sounds for hours
    How cold it is

    August
    you look out on a sick heart
    five o’clock in the evening
    and it’s already pitch dark
    winter in August

    The ice
    settles and covers things
    the waiting for the warm freezes also the dead
    How cold it is

    If it is not true that you’re afraid
    it’s not true that you feel alone
    it’s not true that it’s cold
    then why are you trembling in this August?

    August
    is written on your calendar
    maybe you slept six months
    but you’re so tired
    so tired

    August
    is the coldest month of the year
    in the other hemisphere they call it winter
    August

    		Agosto

    Agosto (August): a song* of Perturbazione (2002).
    Video: Paroles en l’air (1995) by Sylvain Vincendeau**.

    *Text in Italian    **Text in French

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  • Everything Will Be OK

    Everything Will Be OK, by Don Hertzfeldt “After another two days
    they concluded Bill was not going to die,
    so his mother had all the flowers
    removed from his room.

    She also had to have his casket returned
    at greater expense and inconvenience.

    Bill had to go back to work the following thursday.
    It rained for the entire bus ride.”.

    Everything Will Be OK. A short film by Don Hertzfeldt.

    First chapter of a three part story.
    With the second part, I am so proud of you, it’s now available on DVD on Bitter Films.

    Requires Flash Player

  • Gustavus

    “Sharply written, an astute view on life and its pitfalls.”.
    (Ian Lumsden)

    See:
    Gustavus and a long life
    Gustavus interiority complex
    Gustavus car

    		 Gustavus

    Gustavus (Dargay-Nepp-Jankovics, Pannonia Film Studios, 1964)

    Above: Gustavus and alienation.

    Requires Flash Player

  • Khoda

    khoda

    “What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting?”

    Khoda. A short film by Reza Dolatabadi. Animation by Adam Thomson.

    Requires Flash Player and broadband

  • Android 207

    “An android trapped inside of a large maze with no idea how to find its way out.”. Android 207

    Android 207, the movie. By Paul Whittington.
    Requires Flash Player

  • Lejo

    “Lejo‘s simple but unique puppets consist of nothing more than his bare hands and a pair of wooden eyes.
    Using these puppets, he makes a magnificient show without dialogue.”.
    Requires Flash Player    		 Lejo

  • Terminally ambivalent over you

    A song by (The Real) Tuesday Weld.
    Animation by Aleksey Budovsky (Figli-Migli Productions).

    “This film* is based on Stephen Coates’ song from the album When Psyche meets Cupid.

    The animation tells a story of a prisoner who works in a prison’s gramophone factory and while assembling gramophones thinks of his girlfriend.”.

    *Requires Quick Time Player and broadband. (File size: 26Mb)