During the Animafest, back in June, I have visited master class by cartoonist Bill Plympton where he was talking about his approach to cartoons and showed us some of his latest films. Afterward, we sat and talked a little bit on his career, influences and animation…
Photo taken from independentfilm.com (c)
Bill Plympton has an awkward sense of humour while portraying characters in his animated films of which Dog, Horny Chicken, woman, man, Santa, Angel are most popular.
Here are four short animated films by Bill Plympton to introduce you with his distinguished style of making cartoons: Plymtoons, How To Make Love To A Woman, Guard Dog and Guide Dog.
For those of us hooked up to Miguelanxo Prado‘s atmospheric and, kind of Borgesian graphic novels, animated film ‘De Profundis – The Sound of the Sea‘ was simply an extended version of artist’s imaginative and poetic world.
This film has all complexity of the novel structure that characterizes Prado’s work with interlaced elements, like music and fluid atmosphere that simply slide on the big screen the idea of deep Ocean life and parallel, the idea of deep artist’s imaginarium inherited from his life experiences.
Today, we will watch together animated feature film ‘We are the Strange‘ which I saw at Animafest almost a month or two ago, created by cult artist among computer geeks – M dot Strange.
M dot Strange fairly gave to the internet community HD version of his latest film… This film won a bunch of awards at international film festivals over the last two years… not to mention M dot Strange’s animation originality… this film suits perfectly ‘computer games and gadgets’ geeks, definitely… so, if you already missed it, sit and watch…
This week was whole dedicated to animated films, but I had really vibrant last three weeks… participating on several workshopz at home and abroad; switching on/off between Dance Week Festival and Animafest, visiting several exhibitions, transcribing interviews and then, I get slightly overloaded… Therefore, I wasn’t blogging as I planned, cuz I needed a small break…
Animafest had really amazing long feature films in this year’s programme, and it was hard not to follow all of them (fully coverage will follow within next several weeks…). I’m extremely happy to announce that the Grand Prix Award went to Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman. You probably remember that I had already this movie screened here in Pocket cinema. Today, I also have a real gem for you, and that’s ‘Sita Sings the Blues‘ by Nina Paley.
