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Tag Archives: animation
Saturday Matinee: Shadow Puppets
“Shadow Puppets” (1994) is black and white animated dystopian short by Chuck Gamble and was featured at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. The at times bleak and hopeful story depicts a button-pushing drone’s existence in a totalitarian world where … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Chuck Gamble, Dystopia, Shadow Puppets, Short Film
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Saturday Matinee: Anomalisa
Review by Sofie Monks Kaufman Source: Little White Lies Beauty and tragedy abound in Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s melancholic stop-motion treasure. Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel ‘Cat’s Cradle’ is about the fictional religion of Bokonism. In it, he invented a … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Cult Film, David Thewlis, Duke Johnson, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Saturday Matinee: Puffball Studio double feature
With films like Swipe, Shehr e Tabassum, Pakistan’s Puffball Studio depicts dystopias that feel all too real An app that mirrors mob justice. A dystopia where smiling is the only expression allowed. Pakistan’s Puffball Studio and its founder Arafat Mazhar … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, Saturday Matinee, Technocracy, Technology, Video
Tagged animation, Arafat Mazhar, Dystopia, Pakistani Cinema, Puffball Studio, sci-fi, Shehr e Tabassum, Short Film, Swipe, Technocracy
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Saturday Matinee: Orson Welles Short Double Feature
Orson Welles Narrates Animations of Plato’s Cave and Kafka’s “Before the Law,” Two Parables of the Human Condition By Colin Marshall Source: Open Culture You’re held captive in an enclosed space, only able faintly to perceive the outside world. Or … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Philosophy, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Alexandre Alexeieff, animation, Before the Law, Dick Oden, Franz Kafka, Orson Welles, Philosophy, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Plato's Cave, The Trial
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Saturday Matinee: Genius Party double feature
Synopsis from Shout Factory: “Simply mind-blowing. A must see!” – Niels Matthijs, Screen Anarchy From groundbreaking animation outfit STUDIO 4°C (MFKZ, Mind Game) comes two extraordinary projects with a shared, simple vision: to take an all-star team of some of … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Anime, anthology film, GENIUS PARTY, GENIUS PARTY BEYOND, Mahiro Maeda, Masaaki Yuasa, Shinichirō Watanabe, Shoji Kawamori, Short Film, Studio 4C
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Saturday Matinee: Tusalava
Life emerges, evolves and fights for supremacy in this 1929 avant-garde classic Source: Aeon The New Zealand-born artist Leonard Charles Huia Lye (1901-80), better known as Len Lye, is renowned for his work in kinetic sculpture and experimental film, and … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Avant-Garde Film, Eugene Goossens, Jack Ellitt, Len Lye, Leonard Charles Huia Lye, Rhythmic Dance, Tusalava
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Saturday Matinee: Boogie
“Boogie” (2009) is an animated Argentinian action comedy based on a cult comic by Roberto Fontanarrosa, and directed by Gustavo Cova. The voices of protagonists Boogie and Marcia were performed by Pablo Echarri and Nancy Dupláa and the 3D animated … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Humor, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged animation, Argentinian Film, Boogie, Gustavo Cova, Nancy Dupláa, Pablo Echarri, Roberto Fontanarrosa
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Saturday Matinee: Happiness (Short Film)
Happiness – by Steve Cutts Can we buy happiness? Are we really trapped? An economic textbook about our contemporary society By Chiara Pascali Source: GoodShortFilms Try to google the word Happiness, the first (sponsored) result of your search will be shophappiness.com. Happiness can be bought. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Consumerism, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, society, Video
Tagged animation, Consumerism, culture, happiness, Short Film, society, Steve Cutts
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