Daily post 11 Oct 2007 07:57 am
Out There
– This cartoon by Marjane Satrapi illustrates an article in this week’s Village Voice about the films at the New York Film Festival. Persepolis closes the Festival this coming Sunday.
The Voice mention of Persepolis comes with this praise:
__You’d have to be blind not to
__see the excellence of Persepolis,
__an affecting, amusing, visually
__arresting adaptation of Marjane
__Satrapi’s graphic-novel memoir
__about growing up during the
__Iranian Revolution and coming of
__age amid the punk-rock
__intellectuals of Vienna.
The accompanying caption reads:
____________________________Closing-night jitters: Writers/directors Vincent Parannaud
____________________________and Marjane Satrapi will screen Persepolis on the last
____________________________night of the festival, October 14. Satrapi imagines it will
____________________________go something like this.
– There’s another great film by Jeff Scher posted on the NY Times Op Ed page. The Times now makes this available to everyone, and I encourage you to take a look. The pieces are not done in Flash (meaning it’s real animation) and are pure art.
This piece is about Grend Central Station during the morning hour rush. Jeff has this to say about the animated piece on the NYTimes site:
__. . . I shot a two-minute roll of film before rushing off
__to catch my train. Most of the film was shot with a 75-year-old 16 mm Bell and Howell
__Filmo, which was one of the first home movie cameras ever mass-marketed. There is a
__lot of this beautiful old camera’s personality in this film. I used black-and-white because
__Grand Central is always black-and-white in my mind. This particular film has a very low
__sensitivity to light (A.S.A. 6) and is very contrast-y. The only way to make an exposure
__was to literally shoot the pools of window light. As people move through the light, it’s
__almost as if they are sculpting it with their passing silhouettes.
A Weegee for a new century. It’s a good call for the NY Times to post these pieces every month, and I have to believe that the more hits it receives the more the NY Times will be encouraged to run more of them. Stop reading this now and Go.
– A couple of sites have devoted some attention to the actual residences of some of the Golden Age animators and artists.
Joe Campana‘s Animation – Who & Where, an excellent site, seems to have started it with this post on some Santa Barbara artists, Paul Julian and Erni Nordli . Now there’s this post on Fred Moore and Tex Avery‘s residence.
By the way, this is a GREAT site. Browse around if you’re unfamiliar with it.
Hans Perk on his site, A Film LA, has a more general post about the artists working at the 1933 Hyerion Studio. Maps give us a good guide to how far a travel these guys had to their homes. It all seems so close, until you think about the kind of roads they had to travel, the kinds of autos they drove and the traffic in general.
I can’t imagine doing the research these guys are offering us, but I love. I love it.
By the way, Hans Perk has today posted video clips on this site of Roy Disney presenting and Floyd Norman accepting his Disney Legend award. Congratulations to Floyd, I’m truly happy for him. A well deserved recognition of his achievement for some of the great work he’s done in animation.
