Animation Snob Thread (no Disney, no Pixar, no mainstream anime, mention Family Guy and you get kicked out a window), puppet films are allowed

I think animation is a severely, depressingly neglected medium. It has incredible expressive potential and somehow the best animation seems to happen in crappy socialist or communist regimes, while America and Japan churn out loads of crap. I think the main problem with mainstream animation is how as a result of getting visual consistency and working on tight deadlines, everything looks quite bland most of the time. I'm not totally against this method, it makes sense for humour cartoons, but I think when you talk about GREAT animation, you should mostly be talking about amazingly animated animation.
I think in an ideal world, most horror films would be animated.

I'm not that big a snob, I think Disney's Pinocchio is brilliant; Sword In The Stone, Sleeping Beauty and quite a few others are good, in fact I'd say most had some things going for them.
I think Pixar films are generally quite good. I like Ratatouille a lot. But I still find 3d animated kids/family films frustrating because however nuanced and subtle they try to make the body language, it still seems too exaggerated, robotic and uniform. Everyone moves/acts the same in these films and they can only really overcome this with all the other elements, but usually humour.

I say no mainstream anime but Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon get a pass.

Youtube and Dailymotion have lots of incredible stuff but I'm not sure I want loads of videos embedded because a page full of videos is a nightmare for a lot of peoples poor internet connections. So I might just name the videos or slightly distort the site address so you can change hxxp to http.

Search: Brothers Quay, Svankmajer, Gyorgy Kovasznai, Keita Kurosaka, Nikolai Serebryakov, Ideya Garanina, Nina Shorina, Allison Schulnik. Frank Zappa's "City Of Tiny Lights" video.

watched don hertzfeldt's "it's such a beautiful day" yesterday, kinda like "synechdoche new york" but done w/ stick figures and brakhage-ish camera effects — really wonderful

Well, also search Yuri Norstein, obviously. Tale of Tales and Hedgehog in the Fog are required viewing.

Saw Ari Folman's latest, The Congress, at PIX. Pure crap. So happy with itself it actually has a character describe it's own style as 'a genius designer on bad acid'. Avoid like the plague.

I was going to mention Norstein but I forgot his name. I forgot Roland Topor stuff like Fantastic Planet too.

I was kind of interested in The Congress but I heed your warning. But I cant promise I'll avoid.

Even though it isn't firmly in snob-land, the recobbled cut of Thief And The Cobbler on the directors youtube is good. The ending with the thief bouncing around the tank at the end is fucking incredible.

Nina Shorina's "Room Of Laughter" here. One of the best films I saw last year. A prime example of what animation can do for horror. If you have ten minutes to spare, change the hxxps to https...

hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZZY9K-WIc

i watched Millennium Actress for the first time recently. i thought it was really good

My ranking of Kon

Paprika
Perfect Blue
Millennium Actress
Paranoia Agent
Tokyo Godfathers

I found Paranoia Agent quite disappointing and a bit of a slog at times. I don't think the balance of detective intrigue with surreal nonsense worked that well.

anyone seen "oneamisu no tsubasa" aka "wings of honneamise" or "royal space force: the wings of honneamise"? the description in "the anime encyclopedia" makes it sound really interesting:

Shiro Lhadatt is a dropout, a wannabe pilot who wasn't good enough to get into the navy air corps. Instead, hejoins the only organization that will have him, a ragtag group of misfits called the Royal Space Force. Underfunded, undermotivated, and under extreme pressure, they race to get a man in space, but nobody believes it's possible. Nobody, that is, except for Shiro and his would-be girlfriend, a religious zeal­ ot called Lequinni. Space is waiting for humanity as a whole, but the project to reach it is the result oftwo nations' political and military agendas. Our hero joins up for all the wrong reasons but eventually realizes that he can turn the "fake dream" of his government's PR campaign into a real dream, and he becomes the first man in space. Despite the political skullduggery that follows, he refuses to let go of the hope that the realityjust might redeem all the failure and sacrifice of history and give us another chance to soar.

One of anime's greatest successes and greatest failures, WoH is a pecu­liarly Japanese take on the U.S.-Soviet space race-an outsider's view of the gung ho ideals of The Right Stuff, moved to an alien world to emphasize the viewer's own alienation. Made by the young, fiendishly talented Gainax collective, it was so expensive and so badly received in Japan that it didn't break even until 1994.

One of the shining examples of how cerebral and intelligent anime can be, it's far removed from the sex and violence that stuffs Western anime catalogues. It's a film that rewards repeat viewings if only for the meticulous design of every aspect of its world. The language, the names, the maps, and even the telegraph poles all scream to be rec­ ognized as triumphs of world-building almost unequalled elsewhere in sci­ ence-fiction film. Even the minutiae of everyday life are knocked ever-so­ slightly out of kilter, with little touches like triangular spoons, unidentifiable foods, and sunrise in the north.

as for kon, if anyone hasn't seen the short "magnetic rose" (orig. "kanojo no omide" or "her memories"), definitely do so — it was directed by otomo katsuhiro (akira dude) and written by both otomo and kon

Wings of Honneamise is a great film, and I agree with the review that the meticulous detail of the alternate Earth is what really invites you back for another watch. The story is a bit rambling but doesn't get boring, although the main character can grate at times. The VHS copy I got hold of cut out that scene, so I'm not sure how that would have affected by opinion of the film.

I love Kon, though I think he got progressively weaker with each film, with PB and MA being the clear high points of his output. Paranoia Agent has a lot of good stuff, but it's far from perfect overall - the three stand-alone episodes in the middle are brilliant, but they break the flow of the ongoing story, and the series never quite recovers.

Mind Game is one of my favorite movies, and the director, Masaaki Yuasa released a Kickstarter-funded short last year that I love: Kick Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPe7E1YrY4

Is Akira a fit for this thread?

I really like the bit where one of the characters is using their weird psychic powers, and the way it's shown is a sort of invisible sphere radiates from them and crushes out the concrete wall around them - so perfectly drawn. And the city feels so thick and oppressive and realised.

And maybe 'The Thing' if we extend animation to include puppetry.

What I want to know is has anyone been making stop motion stuff since 2000?

Henry Selick

The Thing? I assume you aren't talking about Carpentar's film?

I think Akira and any other Otomo projects should be fine for this thread. Steamboy does kind of veer into the kid/family territory like Miyazaki (I'm just a bit wary of more conventional stuff flooding the artier stuff).
Ralph Bakshi might have to be squeezed in this thread too.

Fear(s) Of The Dark had some good stuff but I'm lukewarm about the film in general.

I saw Wings of Honneamise when I was something like 11 or 12 and it flew in the face of what I wanted at the time. Apart from the chase scene and the fight where he barfs on someone's face, it is a very very quiet film. In retrospect it seems a lot more interesting, I can still remember the low key mood of it.

Redline is a bit different, but I thought it was a mistake to have the film so story orientated. I think they should have cut the story and just kept more crazy race stuff. Now that I think about it, I was just like Wacky Races, but not quite enough.

Secret Adventures Of Tom Thumb seems like an obvious one for this thread too. It's quite depressing though.

BELLADONNA OF SADNESS
A Japanese classic that still hasn't had a proper western dvd release yet. It has very little in common with most anime, it has a sort of 70s psychedelic fashion illustration look with thin lines and watercolours. Kind of feminist fable of a once ordinary woman in medieval times who becomes empowered and oppressed at various points in the story but eventually becomes a martyr for womankind. Some really graphic stuff in there. There was quite a few bits I didn't understand the message but I'd recommend it a lot.

watched don hertzfeldt's "it's such a beautiful day" yesterday, kinda like "synechdoche new york" but done w/ stick figures and brakhage-ish camera effects — really wonderful

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this film rules

i think goku could totally beat akira

Anyone who cares about stop motion should wait for Hoffmaniada, which is an attempt to return to the glory days of Russian animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPe7E1YrY4

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watched patlabor 2 for the first time in quite a while and was really impressed. love how the sustained muted, kinda flat tone and the music's great too.

http://youtu.be/1dmlwhaEEgE

I can't even tell you how disappointed I was at the lack of action when I bought it sight unseen as a teenager!

millennium actress is v beautiful, I think. definitely my favorite kon.

My favourite non-mainstream animation is probably The Illusionist, by the guy who did Les Triplettes de Belleville, based on an unproduced Jacques Tati script and set in Edinburgh.

does oskar fischinger count here?

would like to point out that a second series of Mushishi is airing at the moment, 8 years after the first series and so far has been just as brilliant.

I had never heard of Oskar Fischinger. From a brief search it seems to fit in fine. Isn't Stan Brakhage really animation?

Just dropping in to say that Mind Game is also one of my all-timers and I'll be watching the short later for sure, ty Dan I

Didn't realise Mushishi was back, that's great news.

I generally preferred Oshii's earlier films (Beautiful Dreamer, Angel's Egg, Patlabor 2) to his post-GitS stuff. Jin-Roh: the Wolf Brigade (which he wrote, but didn't direct) was excellent, though.

Dreamer has an awesome moment when the characters board a harrier and see their city closed off on the back of a giant turtle; that's tied with the "Unnatural City" sequence as the best Oshii sequence

Robert, just in case i'm the only one who flag posted you after the first sentence, it was me who flag posted you after the first sentence. cheers.

I love Angel's Egg.

Noodle Vague- why flag post?

tbf it was halfway thru the title. tbh, i think your premise is reductive, silly and distasteful. i celebrate yr right to disagree. the fp button is just underneath this post.

The Secret of Kells

i couldn't give a flying fuck about the premise so long as i pick up some tasty leads itt

Yep, same here

the new series based on the "Ping Pong" manga is worth checking out (there was also a 2002 live action film)
artstyle is kinda ugly but really expressive, directed by Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Kaiba, Tatami Galaxy)

http://i.imgur.com/Gp6t8JL.gif

the yuasa short upthread was cool, if not in the same league as mind game

i think we had an animation thread a while back, but i totally agree with the sentiment in the original post. animation's been hijacked for exclusively kid and family movies, when it has so much more potential.

remake jaws as an animated film, plz.

great animated films that aren't necessarily for kids

Noodle Vague- I'd prefer you disagreed with me in detail. I said I enjoyed many Disney films and Pixar films are generally good, so unless you work on Family guy(which just like many sitcoms, I still find a quarter of the jokes funny enough) or some associated cartoon, I don't know why you are offended. Surely not by my belief that animation has been neglected as a powerful expressive medium?

Maybe you are a 3d animator? I'm willing to be proved wrong about the possibilities of that style but from what I have seen so far, I think the strength of cgi is for rich colour and more abstract things, but I've always found character animation to be lacking. But I've been moved all the same by Pixar films.
I said I'm not completely against uniformity in animation because Simpson's, Futurama and South Park at their best work just fine.
I just think it's sad that the medium isn't really associated much with ambitious animation techniques.

I hesitated before creating the title because I don't find offending people constructive but since the word "snob" was jokingly in the title (who honestly calls themself a snob?), I thought it would be obvious that I wasn't being an elitist drawing a line in the sand by the end of the first post.

So what part of my premise was objectionable?

I mentioned it on the Adventure Time thread, but Masaaki Yuasa is directing an Adventure Time episode, too!

I just think it's sad that the medium isn't really associated much with ambitious animation techniques.

do you not think that this is tantamount to saying that writing isn't associated with ambitious techniques because the bulk of what's read isn't "ambitious"? by definition, within any medium, the less popular stuff is less popular.

i was just mildly snarking tbh but really, you can have an "i love this" thread without defining it in opposition to all that tawdry mainstream "that" that you don't dig. and it will probably make your appreciation all the stronger.

also you dismissed several nations' worth of animation in yr first two sentences which is like, gtfo

title wld've been fine with just the first three words, parenthetical and tbh 1st post just makes yr thread sound rockist son

but i guess you're guitarist from pink floyd right i guess i shouldn't expect more

and it is just silly to associate 'ambitious animation style' w/non-mnstrm stuff, have you seen One Piece that shit's ambitious as h*ck, and bigger studios have more freedom and currency to experiment on a big stage

and then 'letting in' miyazaki and akira cause you feel like it, come on. this is just taste, don't try to project all this other mnstrm/non-mnstrm stuff

but otherwise cool thread look forward to recs

Again, I think my elaboration shows that I don't at all mean to completely dismiss major animation houses, America or Japan. But I don't think it's totally crazy to say that a lot of their output is very poor and that there might be legitimate things in them to object to. A lot of Japanese animators are totally scathing about the general animated output of their country.

I'm guilty as charged that I made a sensational title to get attention and I probably shouldn't have because it is a rampant problem on the internet that I'm not proud to take part in but again, I thought there was enough in the first post to backpedal from the oppositional element.

The oppositional gut feelings come easy when you're bombarded by something that you think has significant or even major problems while so many great things are marginalized. Particularly when it comes to comics. I'm sure most people here have called things "total shit" that in a fairer, more constructive mood they would admit to having some good qualities. Ideally I'd like to criticize everything as if I were talking to the creators face to face in the most constructive, bluntly honest but encouraging way I could.
I'll often say I hate Friends, Big Bang Theory and Family Guy but a quarter of the jokes do make me laugh and some other things work occasionally.
I often get angered by superhero comics and movies but I have genuinely enjoyed them on occasion.

I like to try and be reasonable as possible but then I remember the time I tried to talk about wonderful animation and its potential, with people responding "no I don't like Family Guy, Pixar, Avatar or anime", RAAAAAAAAAGE!
I don't like snobbery and elitism because I think it is anti-intellectual in the way those things make people oversimplify, when the fact is that almost nothing can really be reasonably summed up as trash or shit. But if you really seriously care about culture, have starry eyed dreams about people believing in aspiring to greatness and raising standards, you'll know how easy it is to fall into dismissively oversimplifying things.

I assumed flagging posts was reserved for serious transgressions like horrendous racism, sexism, violent threats and legal boundaries being crossed. Not passionate disagreements about culture.

aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh nvm

Zachlyon says "bigger studios have more freedom and currency to experiment on a big stage"

Examples? Fantasia is the only time I can think of a major studio being really experimental. But there is loads and loads of low budget avant garde animation. A lot of people decide to avoid or leave big animation studios because lack of freedom. The big companies have the resources but how could they compare in this way with Piotr Kamler and Gyorgy Kovasznai?

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you.

Forgot to mention Watership Down and Plague Dogs. They are quite special to me.

^^^these are incredible and their making is also p incredible, michael rosen was a true one-off. watership down also one of my favourite films ever

am cool with this thread coz RAG seems to have a not dissimilar taste to me, lol

MARTIN rosen, even. michael rosen's the shitty kids' poet

Thanks for the link to the other thread Daniel Esq 2, I had forgotten Starewicz too until reading that thread.

There is a Japanese short piece that floats around on YouTube a lot called Mr Ando Of The Forest. It's quite funny and strange. When that thread came up about humanism being looked down upon, I think of that animation and the funny way a fish says "humanism".

anyone ever see lullaby to the big sleep (nido to mezamenu komori uta)? totally wild and amazing short from harada hiroshi. deals with bullying, the construction of an airport, lefty anti-govt views, and other stuff I'm probably forgetting. this is one ANGRY movie. greeeeeeeat soundtrack too.

possibly drawn by one person? is that even possible? I read it was intense labor of love (hate?) but I never really found concrete info on it, so don't take my word for it.

hiroshi also did an adaptation of suehiro maruo's midori freak show manga. he's the guy zorn used for all the naked city art. haven't worked myself up to watch that one yet, sounds brutal.

Robert the flag post is sort of for serious transgressions and sort of - because the system means nobody ever really suffers for it - a way for inveterate drunks like myself to let off steam when I violently disagree with a premise, or because somebody likes something terrible, or because i have a toothache. so it's kind of a joke really and i look forward to reading all the posi contributions to yr thread as long as i can ignore the specious "art vs vulgar commerce" distinctions

peace

oh and i flagged imago while i'm on for dissing Michael Rosen

I've no beef with this thread really but it's funny that we've just had a period of particularly thoughtful & intelligent threads about mainstream animation and suddenly BUN DISNEY pops up in new answers

I've been enjoying the Disney threads, I should have thought how this might have seemed like a reaction against them. I'll go over and apologize.
Sorry to Noodle Vague for my dismissive oversimplifications.

flag posted everyone on this thread for experimental reasons.

i watched Street of Crocodiles yesterday for the first time and loved it! its atmosphere is similar to Eraserhead and especially David Lynch's earlier shorts, like The Grandmother.

Robert no worries, to be clear my tongue was halfway in my cheek thru-out

Did RAG contribute to the ilx animation poll? If not, maybe check out the discussion/results threads:

Animated Creatures: ilx animation poll nomination thread (closes June 10th!)
Animated Creatures: ilx animated film voting thread (polls close TUESDAY JULY 3RD, 8 PM EDT)
Animated Creatures: ILX's top 100 animated films (results thread)

I will say that if you realise your premise is specious and then spend most of your first post giving loopholes to things that don't fit, perhaps you should just do away with the inflammatory premise before hitting submit?

tbf the thread title is p funny

And most long thread titles can do one imo so there is that

I'm supposed to be getting ready for the second half of an all-day exam but felt I should pop in to stick up for Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk (together and separately) and (depending on whether you consider him an animator) early Zbigniew Rybczyński. Boro's "Jeux des Anges" is one of the most eerily beautiful things ever.

Also nthing the praise for Yuasa- Mind Game, Kaiba, Cat Soup, etc. I'm excited as hell about the AT episode, but the Ping Pong anime is welcome news to me- Yuasa adapting Taiyo Matsumoto!

Speaking of Matsumoto, Michael Arias' film of Tekkonkinkreet is well worth your time. It suffers from the Akira problem, albeit not *quite* as acutely (it's easier to condense a single giant brick of manga int a feature film than a long-running serial that hadn't, IIRC, even concluded yet at the time it was adapted) and it can be quite sentimental but for sheer visual impact almost nothing can match it. And the sentimentality works well in places- the B-plot about the low-level yakuza working for the alien theme park mogul almost comes across like one of Miike's less gonzo gangster narratives.

I found this mentioned in the experimental film thread and really love it, so here's a youtube of Tusalava for the animation snobs: Tusalava

Thanks for those threads Emily, hopefully soon internet will be fixed and I can watch YouTube videos easier. I can only really be very picky because there is so much stuff and so little time.

These links had quite a few of the things I was aiming for with this thread. First is a video of all the animators and second is a recommended listing with images.
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/video-100-masters-of-animated-short-films
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/100-masters-of-animated-short-films-part-one-disney-barta-cohl-and-22-others

I've seen clips of Mind Game, I thought there might be an English subtitled DVD by now but I've heard something is preventing that from happening.

I partially made the thread to talk up these guys, so here I go. I was watching a lot of this last summer on YouTube binges and it made me feel really damn good, the way you'd hope a piece of creativity should make you feel.

GYORGY KOVASZNAI
Most of his short films use a technique where he gradually layers up globs of thick colourful paint. I'm really in awe of his best work. Apparently he was extremely different from the surrounding art scenes of the time. He did a bizarre hour long musical romantic comedy that didn't use much paint layering but did use other odd techniques, I watched it without subtitles and still enjoyed it a lot.

KEITA KUROSAKA
Easiest thing to find is his video for Dir En Grey's "Agitated Sceams Of Maggots". There is an uncut version that has somehow stayed on YouTube, featuring graphic content that many may find really disturbing, but his gorgeous soft rendering style makes it all a lot more palatable for many people (he talked about this in an interview).
He had a full length film out a while ago called Midori-ko (not to be confused with the Maruo adaptation) that looks really amazing, took him something like a decade to draw it. I think you might be able to import it from his site. Frustratingly, it hasn't had very wide showings.

NIKOLAI SEREBRYAKOV
I got my first taste of his work at school seeing his Macbeth episode of Shakespeare Animated (a BBC project full of Russian animators, you can get in on DVD but it's all on YouTube too, some really good stuff), it really blew me away with the weird unsteady shifting visuals. There used to be a really amazing cubist/surrealist short film on YouTube by him that looked like kind of a philosophical outpouring, I'd really love to see it again.
There is an easy to find stop-motion short about a wooly creature that changes the fortunes of its new owner.

IDEYA GARANINA
My favourite by her is called something like "Poor Lisa", a really gorgeous sepia blurred piece with sad looking models, it got taken down from video sites along with hundreds of other Russian stuff because a company called something like Funtik owns them , but they seemingly offer no alternate ways to view this stuff, so fans and creators were angered and have been reuploading more cautiously.
There is a full length version of Kipling's Cat Who Walked By Itself, it goes through loads of animation techniques, extremely impressive.

ALLISON SCHULNIK
A brilliant painter who uses very thickly layered paint but claymation for short films. Mostly pale mucky yet beautiful looking people, clowns and creatures. She did official Grizzly Bear videos, an unofficial Scott Walker and a couple of other things. I think she's a fucking genius, one of many underexposed great artists today.

Anyone know what Quay brothers have been doing in recent years?

http://www.awn.com/news/qa-director-michal-socha-discusses-new-simpsons-couch-gag

one of the Ping Pong animators has been tweeting his rough sketches, i'm always fascinated by this kind of stuff http://twitter.com/bahijd

http://abload.de/img/c218a_genga-akebx.gif

There is supposed to be an option to buy Kovasznai's films on a collection here but I can't find it.
http://www.kovasznaigyorgy.hu/

From the thread about DVD availability...

Just found that L'Ange/The Angel is available at this store, along with a short film collection for the same animator.
http://britishanimationawards.com/

Midori-Ko can be found at the official site with English subtitle options but I don't feel confident about buying from a Japanese language site.
http://www.midori-ko.com

after loving space dandy + his adventure time ep i'm really interested in checking out more masaaki yuasa. what should i see next?

mindgame!!

ping pong the animation is also GREAT

didn't realize he's working on space dandy now. cool! still haven't watched it since I heard s1 was so/so

is his adventure time ep streaming somewhere?

here?

ah, thanks, have been on the lookout for that.

and doubling down on my mind game recommendation. p sure you'll dig it going by that adventure time ep. character designs and the look in general took me some getting used to but it's really fluid, lots of extreme camera movement, w/lots of drastic stylistic shifts. just a joy to watch once I got acclimated.

mind game (mindgame?) is one of the best films i've ever seen in any medium

Is "A Cat in Paris" (currently on netflix) worth watching?

it's ok.

Ha, I was a big fan of the live action Ping Pong movie, haven't seen the manga/anime, definitely wanna check that out

Ping Pong anime is excellent, easily best of the year so far.
If you want Yuasa at his weirdest watch Kaiba, that show is nuts.

I really loved how the wild animation amped up the intensity of ping pong matches (!) to a ridiculous degree. great stuff.

Just watched short piece Madame Tutli-Putli on YouTube. The film itself is fine but the technique they used for the Madame is incredible, a lot of the other figures looked amazing but the woman has what seems to be a combination of stop motion figure and a real woman's eyes filmed and stuck onto the figure. It looks beautiful and incredible, I've never seen anything like it.

i watched all of Over the Garden Wall last week and i really loved it - reminded me of Miyazaki in some places (and bizarrely the art style kept reminding me of Professor Layton). def worth checking out imho.

worth checking out is an ongoing series of 30 short films called Animator Expo, overseen by Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
a new one is being posted every week, up to 7 at the moment
http://animatorexpo.com/titlelist/ (click EN in the top right hand corner)

highlight so far (at least in terms of animation) has been the highly NSFW ME!ME!ME! http://animatorexpo.com/mememe/
they're all worth watching though, from a collection of Gundam key frames to a cycling short starring Bradley Wiggins(!)

i hope yuri norstein finishes 'the overcoat' before he dies. the parts of it that he's released look incredible.

i recently snarked over on twitter about "animation rockists" and stood up for hanna-barbera because of its awesome sound-effect library, but i'm really glad to see this thread because most contemporary mainstream animation is awful awful awful.

Anyone ever saw the Shinya Ohira interactive animation level of Asura's Wrath? It's pretty amazing, way more beautiful than you'd expect from an action game like that. So good that a lot of the fans of the game inevitably didn't like it. Pure excess in his super wonky style.

I overestimated how active this thread would be, I didn't want any embedded videos because I though there would be too many and lots of people wouldn't be able to load the page. So might as well start adding videos now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-rhQ8AKs7A

dammit, i should open that game.

I think that part is downloadable content, but I'm not sure.

forgot who recommended A Letter to Momo on this board, but that was a really sweet, beautiful film

yeah, i liked it

rewatched mind game 3 years on recently, discovered that it was in fact a bit shit :/

half liked a letter to momo, but couldn't help comparing it in my mind to studio ghibli's better work, the contrast doing the film no favors. also found her ghost friends annoying as often as comical. pretty ok overall, though.

mind game IS a bit shit, but it's still a fun watch - fast moving, nicely animated, visually inventive.

looking forward to song of the sea atm. from the writer/director of the secret of kells, which i love beyond all reason. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865505/reference

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27btal_08-ideya-garanina-1981-cabaret_shortfilms

Another virtuoso animation by Ideya Garanina. 20minutes.
I thought virtually all this era of Russian animation was aimed at children but there's a bit of sexual content in this one. There's another recenty uploaded Garanina one about a Japanese Crane fairy tale.

There's a guy who uploaded most of this stuff and I think his account was deleted off youtube because of the copyright holders (who for years have offered no alternate way to see this stuff) but he's got this account on Dailymotion, but his channel is clogged to fuck with adverts, so it becomes obnoxious to watch what he has for very long, shame because there's so much I'd like to see there.

Norstein's student Petrov did a 20-minute adaption of The Old Man & The Sea in OIL PAINT.

Clips from a few Petrov pieces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFlnwXKhsM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oldmansea_petrov.jpg

Piotr Kamler's claymation masterpiece Chronopolis is sort of like a dreary Fantastic Planet, minus the plot.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IkfdzD8PeI

Strings... a self-aware marionette world... very well done.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHa1BqcNYQc

And an old tragic classic: Canada's Ryan Larkin -

Walking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwKMYYfWHHo

Early 80s Hungarian film Son Of The White Mare is one of the most psychedelic things I've ever seen.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtzy_RJQ7G0

Ah, meant those to be links, not embedded. Sorry.

I'll need to watch these soon, but I have seen the first one. I think my favourite Petrov ones were with the mermaid and another with cows. Can't quite remember but they have a nice warmth.

saw the rerelease of this a few weeks ago. it's gorgeous and well worth a watch:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_the_Mockingbird

Thanks, I'll keep note. It's unusual stuff like that coming out.

that one is a major favorite in france.

any animation snobs recognize where this is from?

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/291/b/d/cat_soup_gif_fave_by_ellidegg-d3123fk.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Aba9-xg88

i'm not a snob tho, soz

woah trippy

cat soup is SO SO GREAT. one of my very favorite movies (not limited to animation, shorts, anything). writer-director tatsuo sato has directed for several anime series, including a bunch of ninja episodes, but has made no other-stand alone films that i know of. co-writer & animation director masaaki yuasa, however, has made or contributed to quite a few, including mind game, genius party, and kick-heart. he also recently wrote & directed a memorable episode of adventure time ("food chain").

BEST MOVIE

^ ninja scroll episodes

that looks amazing! putting cat soup on my list

Thanks again Dave Fischer, I watched those clips. Interesting stuff. Son Of The White Mare seems familiar, I hope to watch that soon.

Not sure if this is the right place to report this, but Twice Upon a Time is finally getting a DVD release. And they're even including the "dirty" version of the film!

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/dvd/john-kortys-twice-upon-a-time-coming-to-home-video-exclusive-109606.html

Cool, was not aware of this film

Twice is great! Good news about the DVD.

just watched four of Tezuka's 13 short films: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiq0tMhi3HHRIpUMHbdrcWbqjhFAwMrdU
if you haven't seen Legend of the Forest, stop what you're doing and rectify that now; goddamn this guy is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec6CuE34pfU

Song of the Sea is drop dead gorgeous. I'm a sucker for sad mystical Irish shit, and this one socked me in the gut. Absolutely worth seeing on the largest screen available.

http://i1.wp.com/www.gkidsfilms.com/wp-content/img/song/tent_song_hires_2.jpg

Watched The Illusionist last night, really good stuff. I was impressed with the settings and I liked the scenes of being stuck in the car on the road with highland cows because that happened on a trip I was on a while ago.

All the settings were really well done.

Beautiful short made by French student Gwenn Germain over the course of 5 months as his final year project, influenced by Miyazaki and Moebius.
https://vimeo.com/124313553

Maska by Quay Brothers. Penderecki soundtrack and adaptation of a Lem story.
Just as good as most of their work. I had never seen it before, their BFI compilation is where I've seen most of their short films. This is quite a bit newer.

Jiri Barta's Krysar. Pied Piper legend told in extremely crooked stop-motion imagery and a mixture of other techniques with lovely flute and heavy metal guitar soundtrack. Just less than an hour. Really brilliant.

I love Maska! May I ask where you watched it? I've only been able to track it down in a really badly compressed Youtube video that loses a lot of detail :(

Song of the Sea was a hit with my 3yo niece.

Telephone Thing, it was youtube.

More Jiri Barta.

A Ballad About Green Wood shows pieces of splintered wood having their own life. A crow eats some of the wood and becomes a part wood embodiment of death with a scythe tail. Lots of imagery about changing seasons.

Golem is a very impressive effort from the mid-90s with an old man observing a town that he seems to remember from a long time ago. The town shifts and morphs into a hostile mocking place and sprouts faces from the walls.

Vanished World Of Gloves shows gloves of different classes. My favourite part was the wealthy party with the fancy glove wanking a candle till it covers itself in runny wax.

The Last Theft is live action but uses animation techniques to alter things. A bunch of ghosts take a thief in their house and lure him into a false sense of security. This is really beautiful, great soundtrack. Has all the qualities I go to old European animation for.

Club Of The Discarded shows old shop dummies embracing all the crass things of modern life.

You can get these on a Jiri Barta dvd and I'd like to get it sometime.

He done a feature length film called Toys In The Attic that had famous actors voicing.

Yuki Onna is his most recent film but I can only see trailers for that.

Watched "When Marnie Was Here" in a theater a day or two ago
i have thoughts

Extravagant puppet film with cgi assistance from Taiwan.

https://vimeo.com/132423166

Arti: The Adventure Begins.

thunderbirds are whoa

that's a really strange combination. i like the idea of going mega with the thunderbirds stuff, but the CG creatures aren't much better than video game level

https://youtu.be/vo1qGR5DDw8

Вперед, время! / Forward march, time! - 1977 soviet film based on the poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky

This upcoming film The Red Turtle looks interesting, it's a co-production between French studio Wild Bunch and Ghibli amongst others. Director is Michael Dudok de Wit who won an Oscar for this short in 2000 http://youtu.be/hVg5elLgSM8
http://www.catsuka.com/news/2015-09-15/the-red-turtle-premiers-petits-extraits-via-arte

Belladonna Of Sadness got lovingly restored and coming on bluray!

http://www.tcj.com/belladonna-of-sadness-interview/

never heard of that, looks amazing!

I talked about it earlier in the thread. It's pretty good.

the opening credits for the upcoming Lupin show has some pretty sweet animation http://youtu.be/dvaosZlQqrY

Has he always had such hairy hands?

1982 doc with interviews with bay area animators:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cul_G3PJBos

Features: Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy Zamora, John Korty, Vince Collins, Drew Takahashi

Not sure if this belongs on an animation "snob" thread, but here's the pilot episode of Super Science Friends, a new series by Brett Jubinville and Tinman Creative Studios:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjKGWvdSamQ

It's a little rough in the way pilot episodes often are, but it's really funny and charming, and I'm looking forward to seeing more!

at the risk of being kicked out, this is awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6CAXKwexNA

Maybe worth noting here for Region 1 ilxors (I think the disc is region-locked but can't verify) that the Quay Brothers shorts are out on blu-ray now- the new stuff is a surprisingly non-intrusive and well-done documentary short from Christopher Nolan (his superfan backing got them a touring 35mm exhibition and this rerelease, so I really can't complain), Through the Weeping Glass (their Mütter Museum documentary, previously only available as a limited R1 PAL DVD for some fucking reason), Maska, and Unmistaken Hands (Ex Voto F.H.). I haven't had a chance to watch yet but the thought of seeing Maska in HD and Unmistaken Hands at all is exciting as hell. All I know about Unmistaken Hands is that it's working through the same Felisberto Hernandez obsession as Piano Tuner of Earthquakes.

And a quick update. I sold my DVD copy of the previous Zeitgeist collection (subtitled "Phantom Museums") before the blu-ray's specs were announced, but if you're in the same boat and considering an upgrade, hang on to it. Aside from the commentary tracks, none of the DVD's extras have been ported over. Most of this is minor (an interview, "The Summit," their entry in Peter Greenaway's The Falls) but also includes some animated work (a BBC ident, "The Calligrapher," and "Nocturna Artificiala," their earliest surviving film). Kind of sucks that they couldn't or wouldn't port those over, even if it was a question of leaving them in SD.

Don't let me scare you off, though, everything looks fucking AMAZING. I watched Maska and Anamorphosis to sample it. Maska is a revelation in HD with the full range of color (I'm ecstatic to see where they take this in Unmistaken Hands; starting with In Absentia they've done things with light that I didn't even know were possible, let alone in stop-motion), and Anamorphosis (chosen since we've just started in on Hans Holbein in one of my classes) looks brand-new despite being over 20 years old and is bookended with a clever detail I'd literally never been able to see before- the broken lute string in Holbein's The Ambassadors is made into an actual wire that extrudes from the surface of the painting.

I really wish there were more opportunities to see this stuff for animators who don't want to resort to vimeo. I'd like to see Unmistaken Hands.
Does netflix do much short animation?

Watched the BFI Jan Svankmajer collection. Never been into his work that much. There's a mundane yuckiness I can't get into but still admire his talent.
I liked Don Juan, I thought it was the most visually satisfying one, the ghost with his face cut off and candles embedded in his head was a good design.
Castle Of Otranto, Down To The Cellar (the girl in the dark corridor, scary adults and black cat) and the first part of Dimensions Of Dialogue (the materials eating each other then vomiting into new forms) were all impressive.

I've seen the feature length Little Otik and that's gross in a few ways.

A big big thankyou to Dave Fischer for recommending Son Of The White Mare. It's one of the best films I've seen this year and really deserves a Criterion and Eureka dvd. There's just so much happening visually that it becomes a very rich experience. Starting out it seems like a fairy tale but it becomes a strange heroic fantasy myth. I urge you all to see it.

Marcell Jankovics has a bunch of films on youtube, which I'm looking forward to but there's also a lot of interviews with him. He appears to be quite famous in Hungary.

Watched the first Jankovics feature film Johnny Corncob, based on an epic poem by Sándor Petőfi. Another heroic fantasy but less outlandish and psychedelic than Son Of The White Mare (but so are most things), but still very imaginative. Contains some racial caricatures of Indians.

Got the most recent Jankovics film on dvd, Tragedy Of Man, a Christian voyage through history and the future. It's not as consistently good looking as the other films but it goes through a much bigger array of art styles and its full of constantly changing symbolist images. The dialogue also is so full of meaning that it's hard to keep up with, especially in subtitles.

april and the extraordinary world (based on comix by Jacques Tardi) just opened in NYC, looks like tintin via miyazaki
will try to see this week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FP0lzeCJEs

Trying to remember an animated film, art house (?), black and white, maybe, foreign. I remember a man climbing a building, and there were lots of men, all doing the same thing in a line. Maybe something to do with clocks or gears? Anyone know what I'm thinking of?

There was no speech or narration, I think.

thief and the cobbler pencil tests?

BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING

Watched this last night, been meaning to see it for years, it's very beautiful and quite sad. It's a lot like stop motion from the 70s for children but with a goth touch. In the countryside humanoid birds with pig ears that play nice flute music, humanoid mice ride turtles, a humanoid toad magician, flowers with human faces and a couple of other odd creatures. Mostly concerns a doll that is used like an oven to give birth to things, one of the humanoid mice falls in love with the doll.
On the dvd there's two short films that share a lot of the same ideas, in fact most of what Christiane Cegavske does seems to feature at least something seen in Blood Tea And Red String.

Cegavske is working on the sequel (second part of a trilogy), planned for 2022 (that's dedication).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNNbIiFsPzk

http://christianecegavske.com/

Inner Sanctums - Quay Brothers: The Collected Animated Films 1979 - 2013 (Blu-ray)
Films by The Quay Brothers

Since the late 1970s, the identical twin Quay Brothers have made a unique contribution to animation in general and the puppet film in particular. Filtering arcane visual, literary, musical, cinematic and philosophical influences through their own utterly distinctive sensibility, each Quay film rivets the attention through hypnotic control of décor, camera, lighting, music and movement, evoking half-remembered dreams, fascinating and yet deeply unsettling in turn.

This comprehensive two-disc set provides an overview of the Quays' career, containing twenty-four of their short films - three UK premieres and five world premieres - and also includes Christopher Nolan's new short documentary, Quay (2015), revealing the inner workings of the brothers studio.

The Films:
Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988)
Ex-Voto (1989)
The Comb (1990)
Anamorphosis (1991)
The Calligrapher (Parts I, II, III) (1991)
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992)
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993)
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1994)
In Absentia (2000)
The Phantom Museum (2003)
Songs for Dead Children (2003)
Eurydice, She So Beloved (2007)
Alice in Not so Wonderland (2007)
Kinoteka Ident (2008)
Inventorium of Traces (2009)
Wonderwood for Comme des Garçons (2010)
Maska (2010)
Through the Weeping Glass (2011)
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)
Special features

Newly remastered presentations
Introduction by the Quay Brothers (2006, 20 mins)
Quay (2015, 8 mins): a film by Christopher Nolan
Quay Brothers audio commentaries for This Unnameable Little Broom, Street of Crocodiles, Stille Nacht l, Stille Nacht ll, Stille Nacht lll and In Absentia
The Falls (excerpt) (1980, 5 mins)
BFI Distribution ident (1991, 30 secs)
The Summit (1995, 12 mins)
No Bones About It! Quay Brothers (2010, 12 mins)
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers (2013, 31 mins)
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. trailer (2 mins)
Extensive booklet containing Michael Brooke's 'A Quays Dictionary' (updated) and the 2013 dialogue 'On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets'
UK | 1979-2013 | colour, and black and white | English language | 305 minutes | Various original aspect ratios | BD50 x 2 | 1080p | 24fps | PCM audio (48kHz/24-bit) | Cert 15 | Region B

Review
'To enter the impossible, haunted night of a Quay Brothers film is to become complicit in one of the most perverse and obsessive acts of cinema' --Michael Atkinson, Film Comment

'Wonderful, brilliant stuff' --Terry Gilliam

'One of art's most ingenious and visionary collaborations' --Artforum

The last collection went up to 2003, so this should be worth it.

april and the extraordinary world was quite alright

I have the older Quay brothers collection, but I guess I'll have to try to afford this one too...

it's only 11 pounds on amazon.couk so it's not a massive investment

Cool.

http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/the-book-of-the-dead/

I watched Kawamoto's Book Of The Dead. I found it very dry and difficult to pay attention and follow, but I could enjoy things about it a bit. Stop motion puppets.

that looks cool, I always liked the puppet storybooks:

http://modernkiddo.com/vintage-bookshelf-rocketship-to-the-moon/

I recently came across The Mill At Calder's End and fell in love with Kevin McTurk's work, even if it is a bit (deliberately?) clunky in places. The Narrative Of Victor Karloch is great as well.

http://www.fanboy-confidential.com/articles/9815/

That looks awesome thankyou, I just watched some clips and I must get the disc collection.
http://www.thespiritcabinet.com/#thespiritcabinet
https://vimeo.com/user3963984/videos

Got the dvd collection The Exquisite Short Films Of Kihachiro Kawamoto. It's 7 films from 1968 to 1979. I don't know why they stopped there, Kimstim also released his last film Book Of The Dead but they could have filled another disc with everything inbetween. I'm not that eager to see the rest but it would have been nice.

I didn't like some of the earliest ones much. Even though he's best known for the stop motion puppets I liked the two films with drawn and painted cutouts most. Much like when I was watching Book Of Dead, I gave up trying to understand early and just zoned out, but I found it more pleasant with these.
One short is based on a Kobo Abe story and another has Toru Takemitsu music.

New Masaaki Yuasa joint coming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5W9eHDxBDc

Spent most of Kubo and the Two Strings thinking it was an above-average CGI movie with a nice japanese setting. then watched the extras and it was all stop motion, including an 18ft skeleton...

(should've remembered having my mind blown by the wardrobe dept on Coraline knitting all her jumpers and gloves)

Just got around to seeing The Boy and the Beast. Ghibli-level imo

Yeah, that one is great. One of those films that are about five times better than it needed to be. Towards the end I was wondering if they were setting up a franchise, as more and more stuff started happening, but they tied it all together really well.

Mamoru Hosada in general is really good.

i really liked The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, should really catch up on his other films

Those two are probably his best, but check out his other ones as well. I really like the way he combines worlds and art styles.

Your Name is getting Danish premiere this May. As it's on it's way to become the most succesful animated film ever, it's probably as mainstream as it comes, but I'm still really excited!

So Your Name is pretty much a game-changer. I could see it be almost as important as Spirited Away in widening the idea of what anime can be in the west. It's not quite that good, but what is?

It was kinda funny to me that the press material called Shinkai the new Mamoru Hosada. Well, he will probably overshadow Hosada, at least in the west, though they are quite alike, and the film is a lot like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in a way.

I had much higher expectations for Kubo & The Two Strings. It's no Book Of Life, I'll tell ya.

Got the Spirit Cabinet disc with The Mill At Calder's End and The Narrative Of Victor Karloch. The stories aren't very interesting, they're fairly nice exercises in Victorian ghost horror style. The puppets are very impressive, there's a little bit of unnecessary computer facial animation. Barbara Steele, Elijah Wood, Christopher Lloyd and some others lend their voices and likenesses for the puppets. I look forward to what this team does in the future.

I watched the second disc of Quay Brothers - Inner Sanctums (I've seen everything on the first disc on the earlier compilation). I'm less fond of the museum documentaries, which can be a little too slow but their regular puppet stories are still some of the most beautiful and mysterious films being made, some of them are literary adaptations.
The short Christopher Nolan documentary is really just the Quay Brothers giving a tour of their amazing storage room.

re mamoru hosada - summer wars is worth watching. it's a little goofy at times but is visually great and overall worth checking out.

http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2017/04/04/women-in-british-animation-petra-freeman/

enjoyed the Red Turtle. Very beautiful, very slow-moving, but charming and thought-provoking.

Kevin McTurk's series of samurai horror
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/935772123/the-haunted-swordsman-a-ghost-story-puppet-film?ref=creator_nav

Ferenc Cako's sand animation is really good.

https://youtu.be/QAJGRGYxc98

Jumping Joan by Petra Freeman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KooxsCp_52I

Forgot about this thread. A few I've been enjoying recently:

Not at all new, but I suspect that The Log Driver's Waltz, a National Film Board clip set to a delightful Kate & Anna McGarrigle rendition of a classic Canadian folk song, isn't that well known outside of Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

More recently (and still in Canada), I really liked Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver, an admittedly Disney-esque story made as a collaboration with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, who have performed the score live as an accompaniment to the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcEwCxoxYY&t=2s

I also thought the recent Best Animated Short nominee Revolting Rhymes (based on Roald Dahl) was pretty great. Of course, it lost the Oscar to that stupid Kobe Bryant thing.

Let me try Dam! The Story of Kit the Beaver again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

UGH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcEwCxoxYY&t

anyway, its on YouTube

Anyone have opinions on the Thunderbean Animation DVD/blu-ray label? They're doing a lot of really early animation. Apparently some of their stuff is, like, DVD-R w/ no cover art though, and fuck that.

Recently watched a 1990 version of Quest For Olwen, Russian animated for welsh television. Very nice style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QB6EsHAih8

This by Ideya Garanina is the most beautiful animation I've ever seen and it wasn't available when I started this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTzQSxFMyYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fm8Xn_GNHQ

Anyone have opinions on the Thunderbean Animation DVD/blu-ray label? They're doing a lot of really early animation. Apparently some of their stuff is, like, DVD-R w/ no cover art though, and fuck that.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, April 9, 2018 5:05 PM (one week ago)

I would say that they do have high quality but they work very slow. I wouldn't mind owning a blu-ray of Flip the Frog restored but that project has had no updates in forever.

Cool, will check some of their stuff out. My backlog of stuff to watch means all I have is time, anyway.

Saw a couple films circa 1950 by Czech master Jiri Trnka today. This retro will tour after NYC, apparently.

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-puppet-master-the-complete-jiri-trnka/#films

I was just about to post Alison De Vere's The Black Dog, which I came across via Twitter this morning and was blown away by, only to see it upthread. Fantastic film. Been watching a lot of British animated shorts today, Channel 4 had a good thing going for a while there.

I really like this one too, despite the pretty dubious subject matter (and the very dubious Budd Hopkins).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UgJFZSRec

odd trailer for Tezuka's Cleopatra, Tomita soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga4muZbgxsY
also see the trailer for Tezuka's 1001 Nights featuring a man pleasuring a woman by kick-grazing her bottom.

The guy who went on to make Belladonna Of Sadness worked on these!

Giordano Bruno by Vladimir Goncharov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSlWilS-D6w

'Mirai', the new Mamoru Hosada is really good. As in really, really good, probably his best yet. And that's high praise. A delight from beginning to end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3yivaOcJA

whooooa

as vaporwavey adult swim goes....this goes hard

that was great yeah

Attn UK ilxors, BBC4 is doing a night of animation. It's Wallace & Gromit right now, but they promise more obscure stuff as the night goes on.

Watching it now. Morph, Len Lye, animal farm, Bob Godfrey... It's nice but it's a bit basic so far

If you're going to do popular stuff and not include smallfilms or Gerry Anderson then I don't know what. Or focus on the tiny studios and skip the aardman.

The dozen or so films now on are done as individual programmes on my PVR and it's cutting them to bits because the schedule isn't precise enough.

Amazing trailer for A Casa Lobo/The Wolf House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gfk8e_WhM

So, I bought Zeman's 'Invention for Destruction' (that counts, right?), but now I'm worried it's just a renaming of his Jules Verne, which I think I have.

Sigh, yeah it is. Still a awesome film though.

And my old copy was kind of vanilla.

Can we talk about anamolisa

With me? No, I haven't seen it. Kind of want to, although I'm not a Kaufman fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOsdCr3pNE
Un Homme Est Mort by Olivier Cossu of Les Armateurs
http://lesarmateurs-lesite.fr/en/projets/a-man-is-dead/

Sign up to see it here w/English subtitles: http://bit.ly/frenchlaborfilm

I enjoyed that, thanks.

The Korean Film Council has uploaded a 1967 animated take on the classic Hong Gildong story to their YT account (on a sidenote: god, if every country was as good at taking care of its film legacy as South Korea...). It's not a masterpiece or anything, but there's some very good quality slapstick and action in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMY4NA7ONg4

Not really snobby enough for this thread, but Laika's Missing Link, which we saw yesterday, is tremendous.

Laika is always great

still can't believe some of the stuff laika managed to do in stop-motion in the underrated kubo and the two strings, so i'm psyched for the new one for sure

I haven't absolutely loved a Laika film yet, but I think if I were working on movies, that kind of stop-motion is what I'd love to do.

Anomalisa is on film4 tonight. 2016 Oscar winning animation. Not seen it myself but...

L'Animation Independante Japonaise volume 2 - First off, this cost about 45 pounds so I'll understand if you don't rush out to buy it. 8 short films, with French and English subtitles, DVD+Bluray, all region (I think).
I paid so much because I've wanted to see the Keita Kurosaka films for years. His Midori-Ko is by far the longest film (55min), it's like a cross between Eraserhead and Little Otik with a bunch of other crazy stuff thrown in. It's about a vegetable seller girl who discovers a sentient vegetable, cares for it and protects it from neighbors including a fish woman, a frog, an old pervert and girls with fruit shaped heads. It's brilliant. Loved the wrestlers in particular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtwCd7SJaa8
His other film here is 3 minutes of a girl with a shapeshifting face.

Would have liked to buy all his films from his site but there wasn't enough info for me to order with confidence. But check out the pictures.
https://www.midori-ko.com/

Airy Me by Yoko Kuno is one of my favorites because the lovely sad music by Cuushe (never heard of this band but sounds really promising). Here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ5QvrGxTnQ

And And by Mirai Mizue has colored shapes moving around, much more impressively kaleidoscopic than her other film here.

In A Pig's Eye by Atsushi Wada is about a family living next to an enormous sleeping pig. Dad covers himself in pork slices. Mother can't get grandpa upstairs because his socks are so slippy. Huge pig shits out an old lady. Dog hides lipstick.
I know this kind of animation is very time consuming so it's funny to imagine animators like these telling people what they've been working on so long.

There are 3 volumes of this series. This company (Carte Blanche?) makes similar animation anthologies from other countries too.

^saw the Mizue volume of this; holy shit it's insane and complex and beautiful and brainfrying.

Also finally got around to the recobbled Thief and the Cobbler. Pretty easy to understand how this never found an audience: it's visually an awe-inspiring art film and thematically made for small children. The plot is abysmally boring but the animation feels nearly computer created in its precision and buttery smoothness. Easy to love, hard to recommend.

I think I'd maybe show hesitant viewers the ending, which is incredible.

https://www.adultswim.com/videos/primal/spear-and-fang

Good night, children/ Spokojnoj Noch, Malyshi! (1999) by Norstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxkkE6tdQc4
Extraordinary technique and the smiling rabbit is so cute.

Piotr Kamler's claymation masterpiece Chronopolis is sort of like a dreary Fantastic Planet, minus the plot.

saw this screened last night, v much worth a look

The Hungarian film Ruben Brandt, Collector is up on UK/Ireland Netflix now (not sure about other locations) and is definitely worth a look. I saw it at an animation festival not long ago and loved it, but was unsure about the ending... good reason for a second watch!

I didn't know Kamler did Claymation. The one I saw was 2d animation of a ball bouncing on stairs. Very surreal.

DID NOT know Laika was Vinton's studio and that they forcibly ousted him
https://tedium.co/2019/12/17/holiday-tv-alternatives/

whoa, that's messed up. had no idea, and i'm a big Laika fan!

yeah, same. it's a huge bummer.

Masaaki Yuasa has a new TV series called Eizouken ni wa Te o Dasu na! (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!).
just watched the first episode and it's up to his usual excellent standard, the sequences where the characters live inside their own drawings are wonderful
here's a trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acYbdQImkp4

yeah its good

thanks for the heads up on this; really enjoyed it!

how would you watch that, Funimation sub?

i mean, Crunchyroll?

yeah crunchyroll or illegal means

will probably finish in march if you want to be patient and watch it all on a free trial

Norstein is master of the form, but I'm now resigned to the likelihood that The Overcoat is never going to be finished in his lifetime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO2QqDervCU&t=71

It blows my mind that I can remember it being discussed on TV documentaries from around 20 years ago, and it's still only around halfway done.

So, I bought Zeman's 'Invention for Destruction' (that counts, right?), but now I'm worried it's just a renaming of his Jules Verne, which I think I have.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, December 21, 2018 7:23 PM (one year ago)

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2880-three-fantastic-journeys-by-karel-zeman

I don't have a 4k TV but 1080p blurays with a nice looking box & features sounds nice.

family guy

BANNED

Zeman box looks very nice! Not sure I’m going to rebuy them though.

Newish director called Ujicha, cant wait for these!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxSIDpPBR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AFmFwQpfOQ

i watched half of violence voyager; didn't do much for me... kind of a motion comic.

oscar animated nom I Lost My Body is on netflix - is it worth a watch?

Found Oscar winner "Hair Love" online. It looks great and means well, but is ultimately kinda mawkish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28

Quite amazing episode from a series called Operavox. I imagine this would have been astoundingly difficult to make. The faces are so expressive too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR7MdhB6GEc

After all my talk of patience recently, I've been guiltily skipping around most of my youtube backlog of animation.

Some of Piotr Dumala's films are really impressive, scratchy, with lots of large dark mysterious spaces with people moving in and out of the light. One of the most recent is a pretty heavy piece about domestic abuse.

It can't be emphasized enough that "Russian animation eus347" is an essential channel and without that person there would be a gaping hole in this world.

i watched Fierlinger's 'Drawn From Memory' last night, very solid... voicework from Vaclav Havel! this is a decent accompanying piece with selections from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9AS_0Da0xM

thanks for that youtube channel btw; found tons of neat stuff immediately!

I hated the way Aeon Flux looked when I was a kid (didn't The Phantom cartoon look the same?) but I've heard some people say it was genius and this video explained why nicely enough. I'll probably never watch it but glad to know more about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOT_-VQfi8

It's why I joined this board in the '90s! Life-changing.

Animation? Aeon Flux?

AF, in specific. Different handle back then, though.

Ya Idu Iskat (I Go Seek) 1992 by Fessenko.
Seems to be his only film. Some really impressive sights, most of them early on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXOASL4UzZg

WAAAH by Sawako Kabuki from 2018
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=npiEBAiRBHI

Nice

There's a lot more Takashi Taniguchi on youtube than there used to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubX_aqXctRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C_7_HvNSSg
This one is just a stomach complaining about things people eat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA3OywZK4Tc

oh mr stomach

I've come to the posistion that the funniest thing in Mr Ando Of The Woods is the titular character saying "Strike, Mr Ando Strike!"

Sadko The Rich (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWC3OtwAno
New Year's Wind (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvknsKKuuw
Outpaces The Wind (1978) music by Alexander Gradsky. This is a total downer, I don't know if the horse couldn't eat or people wouldn't feed him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbDXdihoic
The Breeze (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0Ffl1F87A

Romance Helgolandská - opening - music by Luboš Fišer-
This mainly for the music. just stunning! And what a shame how little of his music there is to buy, but tons on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUwsq-8JPc

It's probably quite mainstream but Henry Selick has an upcoming film with Key and Peele.

Shelter by Carl Burton - it's rare that I feature any cgi animation but it helps that this 6 minute piece has no humans or animals, just a surreal twisting house with otherworldly qualities
https://vimeo.com/37156003

Shingo Tamagawa. I could have put this in the anime thread but this looks like real labour of love stuff, quite amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnqX41JHuM

that's lovely

Wolf Walkers is beautifully realized but it is unmistakably made for children and lost my attention after a half hour.

Just watched The Thief and The Cobbler for the first time, holy moley the high points are high.

Also finally got around to the recobbled Thief and the Cobbler. Pretty easy to understand how this never found an audience: it's visually an awe-inspiring art film and thematically made for small children. The plot is abysmally boring but the animation feels nearly computer created in its precision and buttery smoothness. Easy to love, hard to recommend.

Yeah it definitely doesn't work as a mass market feature. I'm sort of glad it is the way it is, because the simplicity of the plot works really well with the dreamlike quality of the whole thing. But maybe I'm just too smitten to see clearly.

It's a film I'd be happy to just show people the finale.

it's a great achievement! I'm not sure it's much of a movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVehcHwOB8

That's amazing, never heard of Felix Colgrave before.

i hadn't either before this piece. it's an entirely original vision.

Due to an administrative oversight, he placed in the 2017 film poll.

Key Animation: Wes Archer (0:07 - 0:21)
Peter Chung (?)
Cartoon: Rugrats (Pilot) (1990)https://t.co/SIdlyweDS1 pic.twitter.com/pueranGLk6

— randomsakuga (@randomsakuga) November 1, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKsG3E7TLl4

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2018/09/robbie-wards-animated-music-videos.html
For the retro-prog band Dedsa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PGK7a2IFo

That's great

I watched Kirikou & the Sorceress last night and was surprised to see nearly zero mention of it on ILX. It's so good! Among many highlights (beautiful backgrounds, some classic Looney Tunes/Disney animation on the human characters at times, great [French] voice acting), Youssou N'Dour does the soundtrack and the in-film songs are fantastic. If you have the Criterion Channel it's available until the end of the month

Brothers Quay still at it thankfully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkfQGkAIgo

New version of the russian animation channel. Person keeps getting their stuff deleted by copyright holders, it's annoying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9_pMHQC0Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9_pMHQC0Y

For some reason it wont let me link the channel but it's called "Russian Animation eus347 subtitles resurrected"

The Mitchells vs the Machines was awesome. Great multimedia animation style, even including puppets this time

Yeah, it was a blast.

yeah I really liked the animation style of The Mitchells vs the Machines. Story was much too typical though.

Been meaning to see Felidae forever, it's often compared to Watership Down and Plague Dogs, based on a german series of 8 books (only 2 were translated into english), it's a noir murder mystery with nazi science. More gore and sex than Watership Down, cats are violently experimented on, Boy George sings the theme tune.
I think the drawing is quite weak, but there's one memorable nightmare sequence that obviously had a lot more work put in. The fight scene at the end explicitly references (or just copies?) the original Watership Down animation.
If you'd prefer the english dub, that's on youtube too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oAI33tkxFI

Maybe puppetry mre than animation, but I really liked Burning Buddha Man by Ugicha; lots of Clive Barker/Junji Ito body horror

Cool, I've got it sitting in the pile

New Christiane Cegavske trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEcXQ942x44

Cryptozoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMk2K_x956M

oh that's dash shaw's thing right?

I did see his name in the trailer

We Bought A Zoo (With Bitcoin)

Viy (The Underground Gnome King) 1988 EN subs Ukrainian animationm After N. Gogol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKl1bkhV6k

A terrible vengeance 1988 strashnaya mest EN & ES & RU subs Ukrainian Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgJY16tS9U
Never seen anything quite like this. Watercolor rotoscoping? Another Gogol story. Crazy music.

Eus's Russian/soviet animation channel is deleted again! Just going to link to his site, I'm sure he'll post about it soon. He has information about all the places he posts videos.
https://niffiwan.livejournal.com/

New film Mad God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdrlVShkmg

Howl From Beyond The Fog, a kaiju puppet film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj8pnPdYwWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2chQKSGowjg

woah!

That's amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMk2K_x956M

I enjoyed Cryptozoo - has anyone seen Dash Shaw's other stuff?

i like his comics and looking forward to seeing the film.

https://www.screenslate.com/articles/havoc-heaven

Thanks to Bendk for catching this. Taiwan leading VR Animation
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-film-festival-taiwan-virtual-reality-1235007841/
Sick Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlcls5iyXRc

Animation seems like the most depressing creative industry there is. From all the behind the scenes talk I've heard, japanese industry is almost always exploitive or people are working on something they don't care for at all.

Seen Watership Down for the first time in decades and that scene where the rabbits get buried alive is just a tour de force.

Ilka Schonbein the puppeteer. Big thanks to Bendk for showing me this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPGJ7ScBz1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgz56-w9H0

Found some similar recommendations

Natacha Belova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F13lFR6PhMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZM0aHT1dTs

Nicole Mossoux (with music from Christian Genet of Univers Zero and Present)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhDdCXcp9Qg

Here's a 45min video about Yuri Norstein and his ongoing masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hip3pz0Xs

Thanks

i sent the schonbein delivery puppet to my pregnant friend who found it amusing

Thankyou again Jonathan Hellion Mumble, I just finished it and that was really something

Rune Spaans/Dave Cooper. It's remarkable just how close they got to the look of Cooper's paintings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG4oGh8yXJE

The House is on Netflix (UK at least), and looks pretty good.

I thought it was very good! Loved the Busby Berkeley bugs

The ex USSR channel relocates again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

hxxps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRw_wlOI-V7wXhws4ygx-w/videos

Don't know why the channel links don't work but replace hxxps with https

Found this again, always loved Akexander Gradsky's singing in this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbNas0oe9G4

Alexander Gradsky

Cartoons today vs cartoons when I was a kid: pic.twitter.com/0AUESWVaoq

— Alasdair Beckett-King (@MisterABK) March 23, 2022

I thought he was going to compare it to the lessons at the end of He-Man. I certainly prefer the aesthetics of 80s american/japanese cartoons

I prefer not to have to wear sunglasses when I watch animation too.

Burning Buddha Man and Violence Voyager - The artist/director of these said the tv version of Cat-Eyed Boy and the music video for Denki Groove's Mononoke Dance inspired him to make paper puppet films. I preferred Burning Buddha Man because the ideas seemed wilder and the drawings rendered more beautifully (in a very grotesque way). Violence Voyager is heavily inspired by american films (Westworld and Jurassic Park were mentioned) and it's perhaps that because it seems so much like a children's film that the ruthless violence seems all the more surprising (even after the title prepared me for lots of violence). There's a few short films too. A nice mixture of horror and humor, very much looking forward to more of Ujicha's films or even any visual art he makes. So I guess he's my favorite japanese animator after Keita Kurosaka.

Here's the Denki Groove video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPUyybTsnRg

Eduard Belyahev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_vDF284HOU

All 4 of those Pictures Of Old videos are worth watching. Here's another by the same guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMkdBt3XnGw

Clip from Aleksandr Petrov's My Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVx53tTJMdQ

Eureka bluray of Son Of The White Mare coming, very exciting

awesome, a definite buy

It's got a bunch of short films too

whenever they announce something like this, a 2K Blu-ray remastered from a new 4K source, do you feel like waiting for a possible 4K UHD release?

(geez, i need to check my bookmarks more often)

I'm not really invested in 4K but I'd be surprised if it came, though some 4K releases have surprised me.

the thing is in these cases, you know off the bat there is a 4K master sitting on a hard drive somewhere, ready to go, since they used it to make the 2K version. that doesn't mean there will be a physical release, of course, but it usually means it will at least go to cable/streaming at some point in the future

Another trailer for Seed In The Sand. Voice acting by Gitane Demone and Suzy Gardner!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh2X8uraXnA

Completely blanking on the name of an animator who did really quiet noir-ish, realistic but vague stories in maybe pastels (lots of vivid red), maybe the 80s and 90s but that's not much help. Hope I find him again because I didn't have the patience for his films when I discovered them, some of them were quite long but never feature length.

isao takahata movies are great and much better than miyazaki ones

there are moments where i too like grilled cheese sandwiches more than i like springtime boat trips

Richard Williams is new to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OALIUJ-yie0
This one is quite brutal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E11d5H9ca4

https://www.awn.com/news/restored-1987-romanian-animated-sci-fi-son-stars-coming-blu-ray

Hey @Kickstarter can I get a retweet for my brutal stop motion horror film I’m finding on your benevolent platform? Here’s the trailer! https://t.co/E4K2aoF05G pic.twitter.com/e4XBsWPNU2

— the art of Skinner (@SKINNER) March 13, 2023

Son of the Stars sounds intriguing.

upcoming release from Deaf Crocodile, looks incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Al2hDDoVQ

Nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITstgdnmp6Y

Today at the ICA:

https://www.ica.art/films/jirtdan

Animation seems like the most depressing creative industry there is. From all the behind the scenes talk I've heard, japanese industry is almost always exploitive or people are working on something they don't care for at all.

― Robert Adam Gilmour

i was just watching some videos about minky momo, there are people who say that the episode where she becomes an animator is the bleakest episode in the series, which is impressive given that there's an earlier episode where she gets HIT BY A TRUCK AND KILLED.

i'm increasingly into mirai mizue. "dreamland" is the closest representation i've seen to what the world looks like to me as an autistic/adhd person.

https://vimeo.com/273493052

also, have the little nemo pilot films from the '80s been posted here? amazing stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51iTj6Jbgt8

This survivor's reign series is frustratingly both cheap and expensive-looking; really great and uncanny visuals sabotaged by spoken dialogue that conjures voice actors cycling through multiple takes emoting in a booth (though to be fair that's true of most "adult" animation):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQH8cMpWTU

Pinchliffe Grand Prix apparently still holds the record for highest box office of all time in Norway; it is shown every Christmas Day. Available via Apple in the UK. All I can say is: Wes Anderson could never.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuQwPOfQ1M

insisting that yorkshire television made the only good TV ever would be a solid and possibly a sustainable bit (bit tougher with kids TV maybe)

― mark s, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 20:39 (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yorkshire Television produced Doris (created by Hilary Hayton, who also made Hilary Hayton), someone has recently uploaded several episodes to youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lf7vJTQnYo

Nice video about Christiane Cegavske (Blood Tea & Red String, Seed In The Sand) and Robert Morgan (Stopmotion) and superhuman patience. It does seem like the only animation I'm interested in now looks like it taken at least 4 years and 2 nervous breakdowns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKV3kH6YmLg

Space Patrol tv series on Talking Pictures. like Fireball XL5 but not Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and slightly cheaper looking. I'd never heard of it but the models are good and the puppets walk semi-convincingly and the music / fx are by F C Judd

Watched Wendell & Wild with my family last night and apparently I'm an animation snob. The wife and kids were irritated that I didn't like a cheap looking Nightmare on Christmas style knock-off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUNh1smzXmM
first feature length Quay Brothers film with puppets for the whole length?

Absolutely going to watch the hell out of this when I can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgZccxuj2RY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRj_8k20NWI
The Golden Bita 1976 Bulat Omarov

I forgot about this channel because it gets deleted every year by the copyright holders and has to upload the same stuff all over again, the new channel name always starts with "Eus"

Having posted the trailer above, I forgot to rave here about Flow when I saw it last month -- and then saw it again -- but you can rent/buy it digitally today. It was my film of 2024. Not just animated film, FILM all around.

Yes! Let me also recommend The Colors Within and Look Back.

xpost Looks beautiful. Torn between renting (and supporting it that way) and streaming it when it comes to Criterion (and supporting it that way).

Flow won the animated Golden Globe on Sunday - first indie film to do so, first Latvian film to be nominated for ANY Globe — and I’m hoping for an Oscar nom to push it back into theatres for a week to catch again. (Have been sending international release date FYIs to ppl since seeing it first time.)

Nightmare on Christmas style knock-off.

It’s some beyond-next-level snobbery to be mad at the director/co-writer/co-developer of Nightmare Before Christmas for originating, co-writing and directing a film with a style that reminds you of Nightmare Before Christmas.

I had no idea it was made by the guy that directed Nightmare Before Christmas, so sue me.

I still think the movie sucked and I don't see how that makes me a snob.

apparently I'm an animation snob.

I liked Flow a lot.

Ah. I'm really bad with names. I couldn't have told you the name of the guy that directed Nightmare Before Xmas, only that it wasn't Tim Burton.

It wasn't just that it seemed like a Nightmare ripoff, it was cheap looking and clunky. I liked no aspect of this movie. The fact that Henry Selick directed it makes it even worse because I would have expected something better from him.

Maybe he wasn't given the right amount of time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f19hF7-nT8g

Flow was wonderful. For the most part I try to buy Criterions that aren't on the Channel, but I'll be getting the Janus Contemporaries disc of this one. (I guess Flow will be in the permanent collection?)

I did a lil lol at the reference to that Fast Show sketch in the new Wallace & Gromit

Hell YES.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/03/oscar-flow-best-animated-feature

Gwen And The Book Of Sand from 1985. New to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqTT4-f6ao

I really loved FLOW. Truly magical.

Haven't seen. How badly will I cry?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC96jCkUVl8
I posted a segment of this years ago but here's the whole thing. The Lubos Fiser music absolutely crushes me, just incredible

https://archive.org/details/the-international-tournee-of-animation-vol.-4-1991

Despite the URL, this is six volumes of the series of animated shorts, 1988-1994. I had the first two...some really great stuff, though the rips from VHS are pretty mediocre. Csaba Varga's "Augusta" claymation pieces are sentimental favorites.

That's really cool ty

This Soviet claymation take on "Little Red Riding Hood" is pretty rad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofQIK3FlOZ0

Anyone seen this? Worth seeking out?

https://deafcrocodile.com/products/the-tragedy-of-man-standard-edition

It's good but nowhere near as beautiful as Son Of The White Mare

The late Run Wrake's YT channel has been very busy lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oF23xbTkFk

While we wait on the follow-up to Flow, a delightful thing from its director involving his own recently adopted little cat:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DT2-iAoDSRp/

Real animation snobs doubtless already know this, but this short (and the substack that posted it) are A++ delightful.

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-film-for-all-times