From: eric fleischauer (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 10:17:51 PDT
Winsor McCay was a cartoonist for the New York Post (i
think) who started making hand drawn films in the
early 1900's based off his cartoons . his best know
film is probably "gertie the trained dinosaur" made in
1909. he also made a film called "Little Nemo" which
took 4 years to make.
e/f
>
> --- peter oleksik <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > Hey Frameworks,
> > I'm curating a screening series and am trying
> > to find examples of the influence of comic books
> and
> > comic book aesthetics on avant-garde or digital
> > avant garde films. By aesthetics, I mean telling
> > stories through frames, spatializing time, the
> word
> > balloon, etc. Some examples I have of more recent
> > work is the MadVillan "ALLCAPS!" video and the LCD
> > SoundSystems "Trembulation" video, I saw there
> was
> > a thread on this a couple of years ago, and have
> > gotten some good names off of that, but was
> > wondering if anyone knew of any other examples.
> > Also, any filmmakers who have sighted comic books
> as
> > strong influences on their work. Newer stuff
> would
> > also be great.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Peter Oleksik
> > Co-Curator
> > Blur+Sharpen
> >
> >
> >
>
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> >
>
>
>
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