entries Tagged as [cinema]
Surogat
‘A classic today: this wonderful short animated film by Dusan Vukotic won the Oscar for animated film in 1963. He was the first non-American to ever do so.’
Found via Monsieur Bandit
Bowie + Picasso, interpreted by Stéphane Evezard
Short animated film produced in 2004 by Paris8 University masters student Stéphane Evezard. Based on Bowie’s Pablo Picasso; from the album Reality.
Visit Stéphane’s site here.
Found via Jeanne Mehallo
Magic Highway USA
‘An excerpt from the 1958 Disneyland TV Show episode entitled Magic Highway USA’
Future Shock
‘Truth be told, some of Toffler’s predictions have come to pass some 30 years later – his ‘precooked, prepackaged, plastic wrapped instant society’ is fairly dead-on . . . A small segment involving gay marriage also seems very prescient considering current events.’ –Odd Culture
Alvin Toffler’s 1970 novel (above) was an interesting take on the future. Too much technology, too much information, too fast.
Toffler coined the term: Information overload.
In 1972 on a not-so-career-high, Orson Welles narrated a made-for-teevee-wayy-too-serious-tho-unintentionally-goofy Future Shock documentary. Watch it here: [Read more →]
Saul Bass’ Phase IV
‘Nobody ever mentions this. You can read about how Phase IV starts where 2001 left off and all that, and it’s true enough.’ -the looniverse
Trailer for Phase IV (1974) above. Directed by Saul Bass.
Saw this as a kid. Had nightmares for years. Intense visuals. Ants. Frightening, killer ants.
I have it on DVD, still haven’t watched it tho.
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