{"id":253,"date":"2007-04-01T17:12:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/253"},"modified":"2010-10-24T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T17:51:10","slug":"the-animation-show-2-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/253","title":{"rendered":"The Animation Show 2 (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bunnies<\/em><\/strong> – quick, great, 30 seconds long.
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Guard Dog<\/em> by Bill Plympton<\/strong>, the beginning of his new period of good stuff (also: Guide Dog<\/a><\/em>, Fan and the Flower<\/em>) after a long tiring stretch of mediocre junk.
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The FEDS<\/em> by Jen Drummond<\/strong>. I think she talked about this one at the atlanta film festival a few years ago. Not that there’s anything to say. She’s a roto-animator on the Linklater films and in her spare time she made this little doc about her crappy job at a grocery store. Not exactly Clerks<\/em>, but good enough for what it is.
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Pan With Us<\/em> by David Russo<\/strong>, director of POPULI<\/em> and one of my favorite animators ever. Watched this about ten times. Stop-motion with highly controlled animated foreground and wildly variating backgrounds… so animation without a set, in a live environment. Uses giant rolls of animation paper, cut-outs, translucent slides, metal sculptures, everything. Best short of this bunch, probably of the surrounding few years.
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Ward 13<\/em><\/strong> – awesome claymation action flick about a horror hospital, so impressive. Director’s doing live-action horror next, I guess.
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Hello<\/em><\/strong> – Tape deck gets nervous around hot CD player, gets advice from old gramophone. Cute, neat sound effects.
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Rockfish<\/em><\/strong> – tiresome indie 3D action sequence about hard dude and pet jarjar in badass moon rover fishing beneath rocky planet for giant dune sandworm.
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Magda<\/em><\/strong> – stop motion puppetry where a contortionist and her biggest fan fall in love, then commerce turns romance into ritual and they fall back out. Pretty neat.
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Fallen Art<\/em><\/strong> – by the guy who made Cathedral<\/em>, and a strong improvement. The 3D is less serious and arty and dreamy this time, whole feel is cartoonish. Big soldier pushes little soldiers off a cliff, photographs are taken and sent to mad fat scientist who projects the photos to form a dance, and dances along. Surely some political commentary on the futility of war, but I just liked the dancing.
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When The Day Breaks<\/em><\/strong> – one of those serious\/sad shorts that’s always gumming up the otherwise fun\/ny presentations. Since it’s hand-drawn and not intended to make kids squeal with glee, it’d probably be one of my co-workers’ favorites of this bunch. I thought was alright. Lady pig sees uptight rooster hit by car, goes home and thinks about it.
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Fireworks<\/em> by PES<\/strong>
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The Meaning of Life<\/em> by Don Hertzfeldt<\/strong>, big ol’ WTF here. So glad I saw this after his redemptive Everything Will Be OK<\/a><\/em>. He worked 4 years using only handmade effects and 150 voices to form a film with no meaning of its own. Maybe the filming of this dull short was a performance art piece about the futility of life, hence the title?
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