As per Saul Bass…
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Category: These Are Those Things
That inspire, that I like, and that I hope you feel the same about
American films — both fiction and doc — are dominated by a tendency to tell you what you are seeing; often they tell you even why you are seeing what you are seeing. And it doesn’t stop there. Many filmmakers feel compelled to even tell you haw you should feel about what you are seeing. We have lost the opportunity of using confusion as a narrative engine. We diminish our capacity for joy in the chaos. Dang. What a shame. Truly.
“The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can.”
This is a line from a great commencement speech Neil Gaiman gave at the University Of The Arts. You can read the whole beautiful thing here:
http://www.uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keynote-address-2012
Or watch it here:
If you watched “RYAN” last week on this blog, you know of which I speak. If you haven’t start there and then come back.
This short was conceived and animated by Ryan Larkin.
RYAN is a perfect balance of form with content. It is an expressionistic documentary, an animated essay film. It respects life and our struggles. It is about the creative process and inspiration. It is not to be missed. It won an Oscar in 2004.
Rubix by Chris Kelly from Dezeen on Vimeo.
The internet has given us an abundance of great nature shorts. And it is fantastic. Sometimes I need my beauty and transcendence delivered devoid of human life. Here the bugs and snails traverse the green in splendor.
Life on Moss from Boris Godfroid on Vimeo.
