Peter Max Psychedelic animations

a worthy copy by Vincent Collins

Father Murphy/ Luca Dipierro - Tre Storie Innaturali

New madness from the duo and the experimental animator/illustrator Luca Dipierro that they work with -

I am liking that bum-trumpet ha ha

Anyway, Father Murphy have a few more live dates

7/11/2014 Late Friday Nights @ Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive - Berkeley, CA w/Gabriel Saloman
7/19/2014 House Of Milk And Honey - Sacramento, CA w/ Dead Western, Featherbeard

8/01/2014 Bottom Of The Hill - San Francisco, CA, w/ Xiu Xiu, Circuit Des Yeux

Empty Pools - Slack Tide - Francesca Adams

They really have upped the anti on the new material. Killer songs with elements that seem to hang around for a few seconds more than they should be able to. But they ARE able to! They always put me in mind of firehose , without actually sounding like that band. Comes with added great animation!

Well done Francesca Adams who also did these (there should be links to all of them in the playlist)

Oh and the track is from Empty Pools' album 'Saturn Reruns' released last year on Battle Worldwide Recordings

and they have a gig 18.02.14 at Birthdays in London supporting Speedy Ortiz

 

 

Film - Heavy Traffic 1973

One of a run of features by Ralph Bakshi which were seriously pessimistic social commentary, set in the decaying NYC, of the early 1970s. Sexist, racist, misogynist, misanthropic...you won't see this on tv as part of the design was to offend. There are no good guys or heroes. Just unpleasant characters caught in vicious times. However, the design is brilliant. Bakshi has his own signature mix of animation and live action, and it really is perfect here. New York seems to drift physically and in time, and it is rotten. Gay rights, civil rights, workers rights, the mob, the fuzz, Italians, Jews, the establishment, sex workers, the disabled, hustlers, religion, even god...everything and everyone is considered and found wanting. A masterpiece

Film - Inspiración 1949

A short (11mins) animation from Czech director Karel Zeman. A glass-blower seeks inspiration in a raindrop. The water, crystal and, most of all the lights are just beautiful.

Gerald Scarfe - A Long Drawn Out Trip

Walt Disney & Salvador Dali - Destino

As beautiful as you would anticipate-it was worth the wait

William S. Burroughs - AH POOK IS HERE

Awesome award-winning animation based on Bad Bill's dissection of 'Control'. The first time I heard Bills voice was on a counter-culture cassette tape mixed up with musique concrete, Mothers of Invention, early Throbbing Gristle...I took it to be the voice of a ghost! 



Kanashimi no Belladonna (1973) - Film

Very very strange exploitation, occult, porn, animation that is somehow superb! Men come out of this very badly indeed (the sad excuse for a husband in particular). I don't want to spoil the surprises and spectacular artwork, because it is all about pacing. It starts very slowly, and is very down and depressing (and feminists will blow a gasket, with no little justification!) but stick with it because there are reasons for this. It's loosely based on a book called The Witch, and the Director (Eiichi Yamamoto) was seriously into Aubrey Beardsley at the time. If you can get past the muck this is a cult-classic.

 

"John Vernon Forbes is a rare and wonderful genius."

 

...and I cannot argue with that. Wonderful animation.

 

René Laloux - Les temps morts (1964)

Aliens consider Man and find us wanting.

THE POINT - Harry Nilsson 1971

Nilsson's story and songs turned into a wonderful psychedelic animated film. I haven't seen this since I was a kid, and it's even better than I remembered. Possible influences on Pink Floyd and Monty Python as well. Reckon this might be by the team who animated The Phantom Tollbooth!