Wednesday, June 24, 2009

002 | Fantasmagorie, Émile COHL, 1908, FR


The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
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Monday, June 22, 2009

001 | Gertie the Dinosaur, Winsor MCCAY, 1914, US



Winsor Z. McCay bets with some other drawers, who can't believe that he's able to draw a dinosaur. So he draws a big friendly herbivore called Gertie. Then he get into his own picture. Gertie walks through the picture, eats a tree, meets her creator, and takes him carefully on her back for a ride.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

100 | Flux, Christopher HINTON, 2002, CA

A whimsical animated piece about life, entropy and the inexorable march of time that plays with the mundane interactions and significant events of two generations of a family and the natural order. A film without words.
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099 | Les Jeux des anges, Walerian BOROWCZYK, 1964, FR

A bizarre, semi-abstract animated film, based around the theme of angels being processed by a nightmarish factory...
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098 | Film-film-film!, Fedor KHITRUK, 1968, RU

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