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Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective II
A Colour Box
Len Lye (GPO Film Unit)
UK, 1935, 16 mm, 5'
Experimental animated film, painted directly onto celluloid, in which colour streaks dance around the screen to music. The first of Lye's 'direct films' to receive a public screening.
Scherzo: Verwitterte Melodie / Weather-Beaten Melody
Hans Fischerkoesen
Germany, 1943, 35 mm, 9’34’’
Fischerkoesen's first film made under the Nazi edict. The opening sequence demonstrates a bravura mastery of both the multiplane and stereo-optical processes – and a meaningful use of depth, following the flight of a bee down from the sky, through 12 layers of grass and flowers, and circling around an abandoned phonograph, which lies, puzzlingly for the bee, in the middle of the meadow.
Oko i ucho / The Eye and the Ear
Franciszka in/and Stefan Themerson (Polish Ministry of Information on exile)
UK, Poland, 1944-1945, 10’
Links: Movie trailer
A return to the Themersons’ quest for a purely filmic language, the film reflects their desire to produce a visual equivalent to music. Through a variety of means, such as the ripple effect of small clay balls dropped into water and the passing of light beams through a special lens, they create visual interpretations of four songs from Karol Szymanowski’s Słopiewnie.
Canon
Norman McLaren, Grant Munro (NFB)
Canada, 1964, 35 mm, 9’08’’
Links: Movie trailer
In its simplest form the canon is a musical "round," in which each singer picks up the words and tune a beat or so after the preceding singer. In this film McLaren and Munro demonstrate, by animation and live action, how a canon works.
La Gazza ladra sinfonia / The Thieving Magpie
Giulio Gianini, Emanuele Luzzati (Emanuele Luzzati)
Italy, 1964, 35 mm, 9’45’’
The suite from Rossini's opera was turned into a very special animated short. After fighting with each other for a hundred years, three powerful kings decide to make a pact and instead launch a war against birds. Not a good idea! A very feisty magpie is going to punish them and save the day. This innovative cut-out animation was nominated for an Oscar in 1964.
Sztandar / Banner
Mirosław Kijowicz (Studio Miniatur Filmowych)
Poland, 1965, 35 mm, 7'
Links: Official site
A bizarre animation and biting satire on the bourgeois mentality. Participants in a demonstration are required to bear the obligatory banner. One of Polish animation’s most politically subversive films, with music by Krzysztof Komeda.
Ego
Bruno Bozzetto (Bruno Bozzetto Film)
Italy, 1969, 16 mm, 11’
Links: Official site, Movie trailer
An "ordinary" man leaves his small, colorless everyday life for a nighttime dream world – a battleground of imaginative graphics suggesting the style of French pop artist Jean Dubuffet. Society's taboos are visualized in the dreams- sometimes poetic, sometimes erotic and sometimes violent. Music by Franco Godi.
Krogle / Sphères / Spheres
René Jodoin, Norman Mclaren (NFB)
Canada, 1969, 35 mm, 7’21’’
Links: Movie trailer
This is a play on motion, against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl seem to float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping, at times colliding like some stylized burst of an atomic chain reaction. This airy dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.
Une bombe par hazard / A Random Bomb
Jean-François Laguionie (Les films Paul Grimault)
France, 1969, 35 mm, 9'
Links: Movie trailer
A city has been deserted by its inhabitants who fear the explosion of an infernal machine... A vagabond who hasn't heard of the impending disaster appears...
