Music matters is a series of animated shorts about musicians. While it’s at first an operation to promote legal ways of distributing music on the internet it also allows animators to design what’s basically a love letter to their favorite artists.
This episode, directed by Sarah Cox & Emma Lazenby, both members of the animation collective Arthur Cox), focuses on Nick Cave. (set toRed Right Hand from his albumLet Love In)
Waking life, directed by Richard Linklater, probably one of the most quotables movie ever, depicts a series of dreams where Wiley Wigins (one of the main protagonists of Dazed and Confused) encounters philosophers, scientists and artists, each one rotoscoped with a different animated style.
It could be a collection of random ramblings about life but it turns out to be so much more it becomes quite an experience.
In this brief scene, he meets performance artist Tiana Hux.
An introduction to the hand-drawn sounds of Norman McLaren, one of the most famous names in experimental cinema. In this 1951 short, he explains his technique of drawing directly onto the optical track to produce “musical images”, the perfect balance between sound and picture, which was the basis for most of his work…
Unfortunately, the production company didn’t like the result and fired Kondo. It was already a troubled production with drafts written by Ray Bradbury and Moebius. The final feature, started from scratch with a different animation team was finally released five years later and ended up being flawed but cult nonetheless.
These few minutes are all that’s left of what could have been one of Ghibli‘s masterpieces.
(it was not Shrigley’s first foray into animation, he co-directed Blur’s good song video with Shynola, and then went on to many animated short films including a great one recently commissioned by Pringle of Scotland)
Le roi et l’oiseau, produced by the combined talents of poet Jacques Prévert‘s & animator Paul Grimault, remains a beloved animated feature and still has many admirers, including, among others, Hayao Miyazaki who has admitted many times that Laputa/castle in the sky washis own tribute to the film.
Here’sone of the most famous scenes of the feature : the elevator scene.
Written and directed by Aurélia Morali. (2006) // With Clémence Poésy & Adrien De Van // Soundtrack:Au Revoir Simone // In the middle of a wheatfield, a girl throws a paper plane in the air. It falls at a boy's feets...//
