The Wheel of Torment
excellent , brillant fine art
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Rodney Ascher
Films
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Somebody Goofed
Eric Henry, Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher appropriate one of fundamentalist comic book artist Jack Chick’s short “Chick tracts” designed to illustrate Christian doctrine. In this case, a young boy in the city is led astray by an older friend who disparages a sidewalk sermonizer (“2,500 years from tonight, you will remember this...Start your free trial to watch
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Sneak Attack
SNEAK ATTACK is both spiffy sci-fi pastiche and a thrilling exercise in synchronicity. Eric Henry, Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher follow the incessant cues of DJ Qbert’s turntablism, integrating samples as dialog and working the image into the cartoon equivalent of break-dancing.Start your free trial to watch
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The Wheel of Torment
A perfect little nightmare, WHEEL OF TORMENT takes several dizzying turns around Hieronymus Bosch’s epic pageants of violence. Eric Henry, Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher channel the rough-and-ready spirit of cut-out animation even as they avail themselves of digital imaging to choreograph Bosch’s frenzied...Start your free trial to watch
Genres
- Fantasy / Allegory
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Animation / CGI
- Animation / CGI
- Animation / CGI
- Independent / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Independent / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Independent / Narrative
- Drama / Religious
- Science Fiction / Space Travel
Recent Reviews
The Wheel of Torment
EXCELLENT MORBIDITY. ART (BOSCH'S)PUT TO AN ARTISTIC END. MUSIC EXCELLENT. TOUCH OF MACABRE HUMOR CAPS IT
Sneak Attack
What the heck is at minute 3? I love Q-berts soundtrack and the limited but excellent animation but one 3 second edit threw the whole thing for me.