{"id":15887,"date":"2023-09-24T21:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15887"},"modified":"2023-09-23T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T15:36:06","slug":"shorts-watched-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15887","title":{"rendered":"Shorts Watched August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor<\/em> (2007, Koji Yamamura)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yamamura made Mt. Head<\/em>, which I saw a bunch of times when it came out and now don’t remember so well anymore. When a choir starts narrating in song it is clear that this isn’t a great Kafka story adaptation, but the design and animation are very cool. Heads keep deforming, voices keep double-tracking, while hairy loops and bubbly blobs float over the image.<\/p>\n

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\nJefferson Circus Songs<\/em> (1973, Suzan Pitt)<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is some kind of human stop-motion here, kids (all the actors are kids) dressing in fancy doll clothes and moving like robots or Svankmajer creatures – insane and dreamlike, not always in a good way. No idea what this meant, it’s completely out of the blue – even the credits don’t make sense. Apparently made in Minneapolis, the kids created their own roles, and even the distributor calls it “a string of puzzling little episodes.”<\/p>\n

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\nFlo Rounds a Corner<\/em> (1999, Ken Jacobs)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Extremely Arnoldized<\/a> clip of a girl in pink rounding a corner, the picture strobing and the frame sometimes splintering into sections that Arnoldize at their own separate pace. Had I known it was going to be silent, I would’ve thrown on “Light’s New Measure” by Black Duck.<\/p>\n

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\nJackals & Fireflies<\/em> (2023, Charlie Kaufman)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like a music video for a poet. Eva HD’s work also appeared in I’m Thinking of Ending Things<\/a><\/em>, and she is a fan of David Berman and Nico. Kinda works as “overheard in new york: the movie” – I’ll bet the movie plays better if you enjoy the voiceover poem and its delivery.<\/p>\n

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Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor (2007, Koji Yamamura) Yamamura made Mt. Head, which I saw a bunch of times when it came out and now don’t remember so well anymore. When a choir starts narrating in song it is clear that this isn’t a great Kafka story adaptation, but the design and animation are very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,695,170,150,291,3155,268,21,2700],"class_list":["post-15887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-animation","tag-charlie-kaufman","tag-children","tag-franz-kafka","tag-ken-jacobs","tag-koji-yamamura","tag-poetry","tag-shorts","tag-suzan-pitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15907,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15887\/revisions\/15907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}