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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
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
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
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, 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, 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, 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, Nazim Tulyahodzhaev, Nuclear War, Ray Bradbury, Science fiction, Soviet Union, There Will Come Soft Rains
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