If yesterday’s heartbreak didn’t quench that gaping black spot’s need to recognize how truly hard it is for some, let’s hit a slightly different note of that same sad song…
Sensory Overload (Interacting with Autism Project) from Miguel Jiron on Vimeo.
We will work together to build it better. We will use the tools we have, but not let them restrain us. Let’s turn our limitations — financial & otherwise — into assets (may our chains set us free). We will not let ego drive us away from an ambitious and interesting cinema. Let’s acknowledge that defining a true author in cinema is hard, and the act of creation is rarely original. Everything is a remix.In an era of Grand Abundance, it is best practice to be even more generative, but less authorial. And if all that is where we are, where does it leave us?
I am always looking for new methods of collaboration and new ideas of how someone else might riff off of one artist’s work. Multiple authors have multiple arms and louder voices; their success is everyone’s & their failure no one’s. If we
Julia Pott’s animated short “Belly” is a profoundly moving, visually stunning bit of cinema. So sad and lovely.
Hat tip to VHX.tv
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
When you find someone to share your life with you are not about to let outside forces to separate you.
“Oktapodi” is an Oscar-nominated short from 2007 that captures this quite well.
Whether it is “Doc Ellis And The LSD No No” or “I Met The Walrus“, I have a unique spot in my heart for Animated Docs. It may just be because on the surface it doesn’t seem to make sense: how can truth be animated? But then, ultimately my mind rebels against itself and determines that it makes more than sense: it makes truth.
Today’s installment, further enhancing my affection for the genre as a whole is, Sascha Ciezata’s (iT’S ALIVE! ANIMATION) “When Herzog Rescued Phoenix”
Well, hopefully it doesn’t require us to quite go this far, but who doesn’t love a good machine?
Thanks to Visual News for the tip!
