Barefoot Gen is a Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Loosely based on Nakazawa’s own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor, the series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six-year-old boy Gen lives with his family. After Hiroshima is destroyed by atomic bombing, Gen and other survivors are left to deal with the aftermath. [from Wikipedia]
Today marks the 67th anniversary of the tragedy. Around 140,000 people were killed.
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Barefoot Gen (Hiroshima Bombing)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags aftermath, animation, anime, atomic, bomb, cartoon, explosion, hiroshima, japan, magna on August 6, 2012 by elgraysoMound
Posted in Animation, Art, Video with tags allison schulnik, animation, claymation, mound, schulnik, stop motion on March 22, 2012 by elgrayso
“Mound” by Allison Schulnik
Malice In Wonderland (1982)
Posted in Animation, Movies with tags 1982, alice in wonderland, animation, malice in wonderland, sexual, trippy, vagina, vince collins on August 25, 2011 by elgraysoAsparagus
Posted in Animation with tags 1979, 70s, animation, asparagus, pitt, susan pitt, trippy on July 18, 2011 by elgraysounfortunately I wasn’t able to find the whole video…
The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Posted in Animals, Animation, Movies with tags 1912, animation, insects, Ladislas Starevich, stop motion, the cameraman's revenge on July 7, 2011 by elgraysoSix Men Getting Sick (Six Times)
Posted in Animation, Art, Movies with tags 1966, animation, art, david lynch, painting, six men getting sick, six times on June 26, 2011 by elgraysoJiri Trnka
Posted in Animation, Art, Dolls, Movies with tags 1966, animation, animator, communism, communist, czech, hand, jiri, jiri trnka, prague, puppet, ruka, stop motion, the hand, totalitarian, trnka on June 5, 2011 by elgraysoJiří Trnka (24 February 1912, Plzeň – 30 December 1969, Prague) was a Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director, renowned for his stop motion puppet animations. [from Wikipedia]
The last of Trnkas films The Hand was an unexpected and surprising break in his work thus far. It was something completely new in content and form. The Hand is a merciless political allegory which strictly follows story outline without developing lyrical details as usual it had a strong dramatic arc with deep catharsis in the end. Trnka had used a combination of his typical funny-foolish but undefeated ordinary man puppet as the protagonist and a live-action human hand (naked or in gloves) as the despotic antagonist. When The Handwas released it was officially declared as Trnkas criticism of the Cult of Personality (Stalin) but for all people it was an alarming allegory of human existence in a totalitarian society. The film had the strong up-to-date story about the Artist and the omnipresent Hand which only allowed the Artist to make sculptures of the Hand and nothing else. The Artist was sent to a prison for his disobedience and pressed to hew a huge sculpture of the Hand. When the omnipresent Hand caused the Artists death the same Hand organizes the artists State funeral with all artists honoured. Trnka for the first time openly expressed his opinion about his own inhuman totalitarian society. The Hand was one of the first films that helped to open the short Pragues Spring. It is curious that Trnka predicted his own fate in it. When Jiri Trnka died in November 1969 (at only 57 years of age) he had a State funeral with honours. Only four months later The Hand was banned all copies were confiscated by the secret police put in a safe and the film was forbidden for screening for next twenty years. A seventeen minute long puppet film intimidated the unlimited power of the Totalitarian State. [from unknown author]
The Brothers Quay
Posted in Animation, Art, Dolls, Movies with tags 1988, animation, animators, brothers, brothers quay, identical, jan, jan svankmajer, motion, quay, quay brothers, stephen, stille ncht i dramolet, stop, stop motion, svankmajer, timothy, twins on March 29, 2011 by elgraysoStille Nacht I Dramolet (1988)
Stephen and Timothy Quay (born June 17, 1947 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animators. [from Wikipedia]