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Tag Archives: animation
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
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
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, Cult film, 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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Saturday Matinee: Last Days of Coney Island
In the cheap glitter and glow of a fading Coney Island a group of characters live out their sordid, strange lives trying to get somewhere fast – any way they can. Desperately trying to love and be loved. These cops, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged animation, Cult film, Last Days of Coney Island, Mark Taylor, Ralph Bakshi, Underground Comics
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Saturday Matinee: Bimbo’s Initiation
“Bimbo’s Initiation” (1931) is an unnerving and surreal Fleischer Studio short animation. It’s an early example of mass media featuring blatant occult symbolism and has influenced a number of artists such as Jim Woodring (the Frank cartoons), Richard Elfman (Forbidden … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, media, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged animation, Betty Boop, Bimbo's Initiation, Cult film, Fleischer Studios, Occult Symbolism
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Saturday Matinee: There Will Come Soft Rains
“If Mankind Perished Utterly”: Nazim Tulyahodzhaev’s ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’, 1984 Source: We Are the Mutants Object Name: There Will Come Soft Rains Maker and Year: Nazim Tulyahodzhaev (Director), UzbekFilm, 1984 Object Type: Film Description: (Steve Toyoshima) There Will Come Soft … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, History, Saturday Matinee, war
Tagged animation, Cold War, Cult film, Nazim Tulyahodzhaev, Nuclear War, Ray Bradbury, Science fiction, Soviet Union, There Will Come Soft Rains
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Saturday Matinee: In Shadow
New Animated Short Film “In Shadow” Is A Visionary Journey Behind The Veil Source: Activist Post Story artist for film and television, Lubomir Arsov, has just released his most recent creation titled In Shadow. It is a 13-minute animated short … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Conspiracy, culture, Dystopia, Film, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Age of Wake, animation, Cult film, culture, In Shadow, Lubomir Arsov, Red Pill, society, Starward Projections
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Saturday Matinee: A Letter to Momo
“A Letter to Momo” (2011) is an animated supernatural comedy/drama written and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura (Jin-Roh). The story focuses on adolescent Momo and her mother Ikuko who, after a death in the family, move to a rural island to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Letter to Momo, animation, Anime, Cult film, Hiroyuki Okiura, Jin-Roh, Yokai
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