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Scat, the Stringalong Cat
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| Harold the Purple Crayonish tale of a cat who dreams of fishing and catching three boots. The boots turn out to belong to an octopus, who paddles the cat home. Most action takes place on an unbroken white line on a blue background. Overly cutesy, but not ironically so. Tiresome and annoying. |
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Ian Sachs
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Butcher's Hook
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| Odd mostly monochromatic mélange of photograms, animal parts, scientific apparati and CUs of eyes with an old, possibly naked, man intercut—The Taxidermist, one supposes. Very textural with gentle neoclassical piano and string music and gently industrial sound fx. Interesting. |
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Simon Pummell
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The Wooden Leg
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Looks as if it were scratched directly on film. Socially accepted alcoholism leads to birth of a girl with only one leg. Distraught parents write to the Jewish Santa, who gives her a magic press-on leg made from a Christmas tree. She’s so happy she gets married. Husband wants to consumate, but leg gets in the way. Horny and angry, he cuts leg in half. She fixes leg and leaves him. Mickey Mousey echoey piano score, but sparse, sort of SlaVangelisy. That’s a new word.
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Darren Doherty + Nick Smith
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Many Happy Returns
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| Mixed live-action and paper maché puppet animation. Sad tale of a grown woman (live action) reflecting upon a childhood of loneliness and abusive alcoholic parents, in which she loses an eye (puppets) and how the past influences her present-day life. Satiesque score. Well done. Depressing. |
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Marjut Rimminen
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The Wrong Brothers
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Very crude, blocky, sparse computer animation of two brothers trying in vain to build an airplane. Finally, as old men, they try a rocket. It explodes, killing them, and they fly to heaven on their new angel wings. Oh, the irony.
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Steven Weston
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Jumping Joan
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| Dreamy, pulsing, pastel on black. Girl—Joan, I suppose—has impressionistic adventures. Just saw Pan’s Labyrinth—very similar in some ways. She has adventures underground and in rivers with strange beings and floats through the sky. Keeps coming back to living room. Other girls are scared. Highly symbolic, no doubt. Sfx, no mx. Similar style to her piece The Mill, from British Animation Classics 1. |
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Petra Freeman
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Reputations titles
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| Newspaper figures come to life in a noir landscape dominated by eyes and creepy mx and sfx. Ink is spilled. Scissors cut. Reputations are tarnished. |
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Philip Hunt + John Kennedy
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BBC2 idents
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| Tiny little animations featuring a large blocky 2. Bowling pins, pouncing creatures, a cuckoo clock, a spy, a sneeze and so on. Better than anything stateside, fer sher. |
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Ah Pook is Here
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| Through a black hole, in a negative universe, floats a claymation planet watched over by a flabby, chicken-headed being. He converses with himself about the nature of death. Crawls in a hole and blows his brains out. Narrated/written by William S. Burroughts with a Mystian, plucky soundtrack. |
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Philip Hunt
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Feeling My Way
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| Treated POV through London streets—mixing live video footage with outline animation and overhead map views. Details are isolated and associative words and phrases flicker across the screen. Quite intriguing. Captures the very subjective nature of perception and random thought patterns. Exceptional. |
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Jonathan Hodgson
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Smarties: Smartipants
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| Hyper-colorful candy coated acid trip a la Aardman. Nervous kid chased by giant flying Smarties that force their way onto his belly and trip him out. |
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Luis Cook
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Hilary
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| Balance-esque puppets. Father playing piano, son playing xylophone. Father tells son cynical and completely inappropriate bedtime story about “Hilary” and her somewhat sad life—marriage to a man who maybe doesn’t love her, distant and distrusting mother. They wander through different landscapes during the story until boy ends up in bed. |
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Anthony Hodgson
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Martell: Legend
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| Ad for cognac. Unbroken tracking show through countryside in style of Van Gogh and the Impressionists. Purty. |
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Pat Gavin
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Knobs in Space
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| Condom commercial. Aardman (see Smarties: Smartpants earlier) droopy rocket trying to enter black hole (wink wink nudge nudge) gets rebuffed (after getting buffed?), finds condom, fucks galaxy. That’s hot. |
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Luis Cook + Dave Riddett
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Mr Jessop
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Super spare, extra kidsy figures. Quite funny. The perils and pitfalls of going to the market. Lots of exaggerated details of random, minor social interactions: riding the train, going to the pharmacy, etc. Our hero finally makes it home with perfume (after witnessing a brutal slaying over the ownership of a shopping bag) with a damaged eye. Girl gets throbbing red eye from perfume, so does cat, and they all live happily ever after. Except that chick who got her head blown off. Weird and wonderful. Sharply observed, humorously rendered. Nice dissonance between form (childlike) and content (decidedly adult). |
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Brian Wood
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Triangle
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| Same style as her Feet of Song (British Animation Classics 1). Colorful, abstracted figures dancing together to varied Afropop instrumental styles. Very African and modern, with creative variations of human forms over plain backgrounds. Tasteful and sensual. |
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Anthony Hodgson
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Sticky Business
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| Rough, early computer meta-animation about stick figures fighting after hours in an animation studio. And sheep. Paint flies, sheep shit, havoc ensues. Moderately interesting. |
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Ed Taylor
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