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Cut-Out
see all genres ›A form of cinematic collage, cut-out animation often attracts filmmakers looking to flash satirical wit. Terry Gilliam's anarchic cartoon interludes on Monty Python's Flying Circus are a notable example.
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Genres / Animation / Cut-Out
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Beyond Enchantment
Where all is static motion; where music and light become one; where change and motion become one; and where the end is the beginning. Black and white cut-out animation with touches of color. Ladies of the past encounter science and natural phenomena.Start your free trial to watch
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Chateau/Poyet
The scene is set in front of a French chateau. The camera chases improbable incidents across the screen. Many are constructed out of one of Lawrence Jordan's favorite engravings illustrators: Louis Poyet. Duels occur on a tight rope. Heavier-than-air machines fly (and sometimes crash). Below, guns spear exploding spheres. The...Start your free trial to watch
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China in Flames
CHINA IN FLAMES rallies popular support for the Soviet Union’s alliance with China using an eclectic array of animation techniques and rhetorical strategies. Bold cut-out caricatures of greedy imperialists give way to an allegorical story about rice farmers done in the style of Chinese watercolors. A heroic depiction of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Circus Savage
If there is such an old-fashioned thing as "stream of consciousness" in cinema, I suppose this is it. It certainly felt like a flowing stream or river while I was editing day after day, fitting found-sound to found (out-take) footage accumulated over almost sixty years of filmmaking. All the images and sounds buried on reels...Start your free trial to watch
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Cosmic Alchemy
On ancient star maps of magnificent color quality, experimental animator Lawrence Jordan takes the viewer out of this world into a world of cosmic imagination. COSMIC ALCHEMY is thematically and visually consistent with Jordan's earlier shorts and yet, set to an evocative score by John Davis, the filmmaker has crossed into an...Start your free trial to watch
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The Design
Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta’s ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor...Start your free trial to watch
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Duo Concertantes
DUO CONCERTANTES has two parts, THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION and PATRICIA GIVES BIRTH TO A DREAM BY THE DOORWAY. Both PATRICIA and HAMFAT ASAR (made the following year), the two most spectacular of Lawrence Jordan's animated works, operate against the backdrop of a fixed scene. In the former, it is a back...Start your free trial to watch
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Elsa Kirk
In the mid-1990s I unearthed photographic contact sheets of different women in a thrift store in the East Village. Only one was named and dated: "Elsa Kirk, Feb 22 ‘63." But all looked like they were from the same photographer and time period. There were twelve images per sheet of these models/actresses and I found myself...Start your free trial to watch
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The Enchanted Spectacles
A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears them.” As always in Émile Cohl’s films, there is a thin line separating everyday reality from fantastic apparitions. The glasses reveal free associated stop-motion images...Start your free trial to watch
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Enid's Idyll
Lawrence Jordan used forty-six engraved Gustave Doré illustrations from "Idylls of the King" as settings for his extravagantly romantic saga. As Enid, the protagonist, is seen in a vast array of scenes from deep forests to castle keeps. Her champion is sometimes with her, sometimes away fighting archetypal foes. She dies and,...Start your free trial to watch
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Forward March, Time!
An animated fantasia "based on the works of Vladimir Mayakovsky," this dazzling kaleidoscope of imagery pays tribute to that fabled Soviet poet, playwright and Futurist in terms as imaginatively fabulist as any Western animation of the 1970s "head" era. Beginning with a wrecking ball repeatedly smashing...Start your free trial to watch
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Ghost Algebra
Under erratic skies, a solitary figure navigates a landscape of constructed nature and broken bones. She peers through a decaying aperture, waiting and watching; the fragility of the body is exposed for what it is: ephemeral, liquid, a battlefield of nervous dreams. Using found and natural objects, rephotographed video,...Start your free trial to watch
