One of our favourites from the new batch of Animate shorts premiered last night was Stephen Irwin’s multi-flipbook film The Black Dog’s Progress; a midnight head-twister which would need several views to make head or tail of it. It can be seen on the new 4mations site (though at a resolution that doesn’t do it any favours). This Josef Albers poem which opened Tal Rosner’s film is also a handy mantra for festival-organisers:
calm down
what happens
happens mainly
without you
Thanks for checking out 4mations – we’re pleased to be hosting The Black Dog’s Progress with a number of other Animate Titles :)
Comment by Mel Kirk — September 22, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Really pleased that you enjoyed The Black Dog’s Progress – it’s now up on animateprojects.org at a good quality for full screen viewing.
Plus, we’ll be uploading artist’s interviews at the end of October so you can see more about what inspired Stephen Irwin and the others.
All the best
Animate Projects
Comment by Animate Projects — September 30, 2008 @ 6:33 pm