Sensology (2010)

A short animated film that visualizes in abstract form, an improvised musical session by two leaders of the avant-guarde jazz movement, Paul Plimley (piano) and Barry Guy (bass).The music ... See full summary »

Director:

Michel Gagné

Storyline

A short animated film that visualizes in abstract form, an improvised musical session by two leaders of the avant-guarde jazz movement, Paul Plimley (piano) and Barry Guy (bass).The music was recorded on November 9th, 1995, at the Western Front in Vancouver, Canada The film was started in August 2006 and completed in July 2010. Sensology was handdrawn (painted) with a Wacon tablet at first, and later, a Cintiq, using Adobe Photoshop. The drawings and frames were then composited and manipulated in a 2D software called Animo. There is no vector animation at any point in the film. The animation was done stream of consciousness, one frame at a time at a rate of 30 frames per second.

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Genres:

Animation | Short | Music

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 July 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

6 min

Color:

Black and White Color

User Reviews

Read the Story Line on this one....as it defies my ability to score this one.

While it's rare, I am choosing not to give a numerical rating to this film. It defies rating and is clearly an avant-garde art film--exactly the sort of thing you can't explain in mere words and which probably won't appeal to most viewers. The reason I saw this film is that it was rather inexplicably included with the first showing of the Oscar Nominated Documentary Short program. So, in addition to the five nominees, they used this very short film just as the intermission was called (since the show lasted a whopping 3 1/2 hours!).

Instead of me explaining the film at length, my suggestion is you first read the IMDb section entitled 'Story line'---as it explains HOW the film was made. It consists of some non-traditional (i.e, a bit annoying) music is played while monochromatic images dance across the screen in time to the music. It is a bit mesmerizing but also something very artsy and probably mostly of interest to people who like avant-garde things. For the general public, it's probably easy to skip and for the artsy, it's a 'must-see'.