Damon the Mower (1972)
Género : Animación
Tiempo de ejecución : 3M
Director : George Dunning
Sinopsis
Inspired by an Andrew Marvell poem, George Dunning sketched short phrases of animated movement on index cards, which were then stuck to a table top and filmed. Animation bared to the bone, and still extraordinary.
A wall blocks the path of two people. One man submits, while the other refuses to admit defeat.
A high-speed view of Paris via train-track; Zooming down the Seine by boat. Chomette's first film, Games of Reflections and Speed, traverses tunnels and elevated railways to produce a disarming rhythm.
London to Brighton in 4 minutes BBC interlude. From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished, the next one was not ready yet, and the gap had to be filled. So the BBC developed a number of interludes to fill these gaps, this being the most famous one.
A man and a woman converse at a cafe's bar in this animated short.
Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and intensity has been compared to contemporary Beat poetry.
Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.
In this homage to Zen poet Basho, the subtle changes of a pond are chronicled on film over a period of time. Broughton recites his cuckoo haikus in the background.
A short Surrealist animation from Denmark which begins with a zoom into a Paul Delvaux painting, then reverses the process by pulling back from a continually changing picture.
Director Joseph Cornell evokes the nostalgia of childhood by filming a children's party.
A short film in which pieces of paper fly off of an animated cube.
A short film where circus performers entertain children.
A parade of popular consumer items cut to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". A great example of Pop Art in film.
"Made with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity… Places Breer for the first time among the major colorists of the avant-garde." – P. Adams Sitney
An experimental animated short film in which a piano plays a song and the keys, hammers, and various other parts of the piano are different colors.
A fast-paced rhythmic impression of dancers, musicians and sportsmen at a highlands event.
A series of papers flutter in the wind in this short film by Hollis Frampton.
A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'.
A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's actually a cover for their frequent attempts at causing each other extreme physical harm.
