Thread: OT: Next batch of short films (Hertzfeldt, Pitt, Anger and Matsumoto)

I've seen a few Bill Plympton shorts, and have enjoyed them all even if I don't consider them quite in a league with Hertzfeldt. Hey that's cool, you got to see the first screening of 'Bambi Meets Godzilla.' ;) Well this is the first time hearing about Spike & Mike's, but they've got an interesting website. Nihilism: Faith Not Required youtube.com/user/fake7username

yeah you have to be careful with Youtube, your stuff is generally pretty nice looking, but it can go badly wrong. Les Jeux des Anges is a bit of a joke on Youtube, nothing like as immensely powerful as it can be. I'll take a look at A propos de nice and report back. Yeah I just took a look, even with the aerial scenes at the start there's meant to be such grandeur, which because of the postage stamp size isn't caputred on...

on topic, crayce, on topic. I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of fallin'.

Call me dim, but at this point I need a straightforward explanation. I always knew it was going to be like this.

I'm inclined to agree. Although if I think about it I probably liked 'Everything Will Be OK' even better. He just gets better with every film he makes. That one isn't only hilarious, hilariously cute and clever as always, but also quite profound. The editing also would be fun, I'd think, especially on this one with its lack of a narrative you can just run loose. They ran that Pasolini segment before...

I probably don't have to tell you this, but Bill Plympton should be seen...and loved by you. By the way...I was at the very first Spike and Mike's twisted animation festival screening at the Unicorn theater in La Jolla. Not opening night, but during its first run back in the day. 1970, 71 or so..... I saw Bambi Meets Godzilla for the first time on the big screen!! Fatum ut Subsisto Familaris

I'm confused. I thought Rabbit's Moon was made in the 1950 (that's what the DVD box and IMDb say, anyway) ...dans l'ombre, quelque ange immense était debout, les ailes déployées, attendant l'âme .

Hertzfeldt is great. You should seek out his earlier Rejected, which somehow managed to score an Oscar nomination despite the low-tech stick-figure aesthetic. http://www.bitterfilms.com chew it up and spit it back at the waitress

It was shot in 1950 in Paris, but never completed. Anger re-discovered the footage a decade later and used popular Doo-Wop songs to establish the narrative. A decade after that, in the 1970's, he created a seven minute version of the film as birthday present for the son of Stan Brakhage.

I have mixed feelings about Hertzfeldt. Some of his stuff I like (I really enjoyed the one you just posted), but Rejected is really tedious for me. I suppose I should see the rest of his work, as there isn't a lot of it. --- Last night I played poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.