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Trash Talking

2006

A showcase of Paper Rad's individual and group creations in the form of Trash Talking, a show for kids with bizarre characters trying to find their place in the world.

5.8

Nocturna Artificialia

1979

Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.

6.1

This Unnameable Little Broom

1985

Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.

6.6

Street of Crocodiles

1986

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.

6.6

Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

1988

Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.

6.7

The Comb

1991

A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.

6.5

Anamorphosis

1993

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th- and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles, mischievously revealed hidden symbols.

6.0

Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?

1992

Stop-motion animated short film with a white ball, a rabbit, and a girl, and a voice singing "Are We Still Married".

6.9

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer

1984

In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.

5.9

Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

1993

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.

6.7

Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You

1993

Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.

6.3

In Absentia

2000

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come."

6.4

The Calligrapher

1991

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each held by a hand. The calligrapher moves all the hands and pens in unison, drawing an elaborate feathered wing, which comes to live, peeling off the page, and, now a quill pen, slips in to his hand. He tucks it behind his left ear.

6.1

The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection

2003

A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.

5.3

The Summit

1995

Two men seek to negotiate an agreement of international significance.

5.2

Between Science and Garbage

2004

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this singular multimedia experience, a hybrid of live animation and performance art.

0.0

1 Seconde

1991

“When he shot Une seconde (4 min., 20 sec.), a video animation without computer graphics, Richard Angers tried to adapt Norman McLaren’s animation techniques to video shooting and editing. A long-term solitary task, in which images are moved by hand, centimetre by centimetre, in which one plays with the number of images per second, and in which the ± pure quest for effects is more important than the message”. BLANCHARD, Louise. “Les vidéastes sont au ‘rendez-vous’”, Le Journal de Montréal, Montreal (9 February 1992), p. 38.

0.0

Computer Movie No.2

1969

Computer Movie No. 2 is a CGI animation created in advance of video-editing software. CTG programmed graphics on an IBM computer, filmed the screen with a 16mm camera, and assembled the frames as an animated film.

0.0

Sylvia Kristel – Paris

2003

Sylvia Kristel – Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel , best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as a film about the impossibility of memory in relation to biography. Between November 2000 and June 2002 Manon de Boer recorded the stories and memories of Kristel. At each recording session she asked her to speak about a city where Kristel has lived: Paris, Los Angeles, Brussels or Amsterdam; over the two years she spoke on several occasions about the same city. At first glance the collection of stories appears to make up a sort of biography, but over time it shows the impossibility of biography: the impossibility of ‘plotting’ somebody’s life as a coherent narrative.

5.0

Aggression

1968

Aggression, Schroeter’s first 16mm film, is the fictive portrait of a woman who is oppressed by her (unseen) boyfriend.

Genre	Animation
Production Ccountries	Germany

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