Just watched the film Waltz with Bashir, Directed by Ari Folman. The Israeli film director cannot remember the horrors of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. He interviews fellow veterans to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict. The documentary film is animated really well with a Citizen Kane-style recounting of what happened during 1982 Lebanese war, in which the Israel Defence Forces invaded Lebanon after an assassination attempt against the Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom. I will not say much more as this film looks at why Ari has no real memory of what happened in Lebanon. It is well worth a watch not only for the historical contents but also for the quality of the animation and illustration.
Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts
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Video Wednesday - 16
Animation by Sebastien Wojda, Romain Baudy, Ludovic Bouancheau, Liane Cho Han, Yann Le Gall and Marietta Ren
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
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Favourite Films - A Scanner Darkly
The films mentioned on this blog will be my favourites due to how visually stunning the film is and not because I like the story, but with A Scanner Darkly it is actually both. This film is one of my favourite films in my collection because of so many reasons, the story is very clever, how the film was made and the fact it is just one of the most visually weird yet entertaining films I have seen in a long time. I am not going to go into detail about the film as this is not a film review blog; I will just run through why I think this is such a visually stunning film and how it was achieved.Lately I have been looking more into mixed media collaboration, such as model making and photography, illustration and graphic design and many more. This film is no exception; it is a collaboration of film, photography, illustration and animation and with all these different creative industries coming together we have this fantastic eye-catching film. The whole film was shot over six weeks, and then handed over the animators who spent the next fifteen months on it.
What I really like about the film is how they have combined both film and animation to create a film that is aimed at the older generation not an animation aimed at kids. The film has many subplots and the story itself has a few twists and turns throughout. The film is based on a book that goes by the same name and I have not got round to reading the book as of yet but the film and book are defiantly both worth a look at. This film, a few illustrators and a few photographers out there have started to make me think about doing collaborations with some of the other courses at the Arts University College of Bournemouth and see what we get.
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