A dog with a human head. Giant heads with arms and no bodies. Self-decapitation. A hand-less, skinless being. These are a few of the surreal creatures lurking about in Edwin Rostron‘s short film Morris and the Other; a sad, and at times grotesque, meditation on desire. Rostron populates a barren landscape with beings desperately yearning for a piece of themselves that is missing, which mostly results in their situation becoming even worse. But, what’s even more unique and surreal than these deformed entities? That Rostron drew the entire film just using a regular 2B pencil.
For me, in our overly digitized world these days, it’s always comforting encountering an animator still working in a hand-drawn style. While I believe some of the drawings have been digitally manipulated — e.g. the kite that flies over the field of marching heads looks digitally composited — at least those drawings began...
For me, in our overly digitized world these days, it’s always comforting encountering an animator still working in a hand-drawn style. While I believe some of the drawings have been digitally manipulated — e.g. the kite that flies over the field of marching heads looks digitally composited — at least those drawings began...
- 2/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
This is a really interesting concept that I’ve never seen before. Animator Skip Battaglia posted up his 1997 music video for the song “Taki Dom” performed by the poetry performance group F’loom, but he uploaded it in two versions: One is just the original video, the other is the video with a director’s commentary track overlaid on it. Embedded above is the video with commentary and the original is below. Skip discusses the origins of this project and the process of actually making it. Give it a listen, it’s really interesting.
Hearing the commentary was an extra bonus for me personally as Skip was one of my film professors — one of my favorite film professors in fact — when I attended the Film/Video program at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1988 to 1992. I haven’t been back to Rit since I moved away from Rochester, so it...
Hearing the commentary was an extra bonus for me personally as Skip was one of my film professors — one of my favorite film professors in fact — when I attended the Film/Video program at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1988 to 1992. I haven’t been back to Rit since I moved away from Rochester, so it...
- 11/25/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Embedded above is the 1980 short film Parataxis by Rochester, NY-based animator Skip Battaglia. This structuralist film reimagines the same scenario — a man checking out a cute chick in a department store — with different reshufflings of the order of the exact memory of the event. As Skip notes, Parataxis is considered the first xerographically animated film produced on a Xerox 6500 Color Copier on paper. While it’s a fascinating technique executed imaginatively, I want to discuss something else:
Skip was one of my film professors at the Rochester Institute of Technology (1988 – 1992) and had a phenomenally huge impact on my life. While my life and career didn’t go in the direction of creating films, Skip really instilled and inspired in me new ways of looking at the world differently. He had a way of looking at your footage and, while seeing and appreciating it for what it was and what you...
Skip was one of my film professors at the Rochester Institute of Technology (1988 – 1992) and had a phenomenally huge impact on my life. While my life and career didn’t go in the direction of creating films, Skip really instilled and inspired in me new ways of looking at the world differently. He had a way of looking at your footage and, while seeing and appreciating it for what it was and what you...
- 4/13/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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