tagged w/ experimental animation
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“LGFUAD” (an acronym for Let’s Get Fucked Up and Die) is an award-winning four-minute experimental animated short film created by Kelsey Stark. The short mixes a variety of animation styles, primarily focusing on an unwieldy hypnotic medium that looks like an organic crayon drawing. In the film, a young woman eats pizza and relates a series of surreal, richly psychosexual and violent stream-of-consciousness stories about how cool it is to be a ghost.
“LGFUAD” characterizes a jaded, dissatisfied personality type, exacerbated by a hipster-emphasis on cool and from growing up in media-drenched suburban environment where one is taunted constantly by what one doesn’t have, or hasn’t experienced. This is a controversial, love-it or hate-it film; “LGFUAD” is fresh, personal and conceptual, but edgy, uncomfortable and uncompromising all the same.
This piece includes a number of colorful pictures, as well as the edgy animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/lgfuad-a-grotesque-rampage-of-jaded-sex-drugs-and-violence/“LGFUAD” (an acronym for Let’s Get Fucked Up and Die) is an... more
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“Dreaming of Lucid Living” is a short film that’s a remarkable, beautiful performance/animation mash-up by the award-winning animator, designer and multi-media artist Miwa Matreyek. The film is a performance/installation piece constructed like a shadow puppet theater, integrating Matreyek’s solo live performance, nicely composed visuals and animation in a way that is both poetic and quite quirky.
It combines live performance with both pre-made animations and semi-autonomous, rule based animations that appear to update based upon what a camera is viewing. The film’s presentation of deceptively simple, deliciously playful illusions, a high-spirited sense of wonder, and creatively unexpected mixtures of live action and animation is just incredible. I’ve never seen anything quite like this ever before.
This piece includes a number of unusual illustrations from the film, as well as the incredible, beautiful short performance/animation piece, “Dreaming of Lucid Living.”
Please visit my website to view the unique illustrations and to watch this very remarkable performance/animation:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/dreaming-of-lucid-living-a-fascinating-performance-animation-mash-up/“Dreaming of Lucid Living” is a short film that’s a remarkable,... more
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This acclaimed short film provides a visual experience that's extremely relevant to today’s ever-deepening economic crisis. “Drux and Flux” won the Canadian Film Institute’s 2008 Award for Best Canadian Animation. This five-minute experimental/abstract animation presents an oppressive and miserable vision of how both the contemporary commitment to an over-arching belief in progress and to the ever-expanding industrialism in society have effected modern life.
The film's rapidly coordinated cuts elicit disturbing associations between ever-increasing industrialization, exponential technological advances and the rise of totalitarian political regimes that can be quite unsettling. Inspired in part by the late sociologist-philosopher-activist Herbert Marcuse’s “One-Dimensional Man” (1964), the film echo's Marcuse's contentions that advertising, industrial management, politicians and the mass-media cooperate to brainwash members of the working class, eliminating their potential for effective expressions of negativity, critique and opposition.
The result, according to Marcuse, is an increasingly “one-dimensional” universe of thought and behavior, in which the very aptitude and ability for critical thinking and for developing either opposing or alternative social positions are withering away. As “Drux and Flux” travels through its series of dismal industrial scenes, one is left with a deeply sad mood about the frightening impressions of the enormous slabs of metal and rust, the smells of rotting death. By the end of this short five-minute journey, the viewer is left to wonder whether this is what things actually might be like when our industrial world finally reaches its end.
Includes a number of wonderful photographs and the award-winning experimental short animation.This acclaimed short film provides a visual experience that's extremely relevant... more
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