"I would never have done it, if I hadn't hated dances so much." Another whimsical short from animation filmmaker Elizabeth Hobbs, better known as Lizzy Hobbs (she also made the short film I'm Ok a few years ago). Her latest is titled The Debutante, a 9-minute animated short telling an amusing story of a woman in the 1930s. This short premiered at film festivals back in 2022 and has been tour the fest circuit ever since, finally getting an online debut this week thanks to Vimeo. A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from London Zoo to take her place at a dreaded dinner dance being held in her honour... The Debutante is based on a short story written by the artist Leonora Carrington, who was presented at the court of King George V then became a debutante in 1936. It's animated with ink & paint on paper, with some collage & cut-out, captured under a rostrum camera.
- 5/1/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It begins with a quote from the surrealist artist and novelist Leonora Carrington: “I suddenly became aware that I was both mortal and touchable and that I could be destroyed.” The quote refers to the process of recovery from a breakdown which had seen her confined to an asylum; to the experience of recovering sanity. It’s an interesting choice for a film about the Erinyes, also known as the Furies, the Ancient Greek goddesses of retribution whose talents often focused on driving their targets to madness.
We glimpse the Erinyes first in bronze form, in a highly valuable antique statuette being sold at auction. It is purchased – on behalf of a still wealthier client, naturally – by an elegant woman. That night, the losing bidder arrives at her home, telling her that his client wants to make hers an offer. It’s irregular, but there could be a sizeable...
We glimpse the Erinyes first in bronze form, in a highly valuable antique statuette being sold at auction. It is purchased – on behalf of a still wealthier client, naturally – by an elegant woman. That night, the losing bidder arrives at her home, telling her that his client wants to make hers an offer. It’s irregular, but there could be a sizeable...
- 8/27/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Annecy’s official short film competition is one of the festival’s centerpieces. Many years, at least one ends up snagging an Oscar nomination. Every year, Variety watches the shorts in Annecy’s main competition selection and picks 10 of our favorites. We’re not saying these are the best 10 shorts this year, though four won prizes, but we believe each brings something that shouldn’t be missed.
“Anxious Body,”
Screening at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Mizushiri’s fourth short and the first project co-produced by Japanese New Deer and France’s Miyu Productions. Employing Mizushiri’s hallmark focus on the senses, non-plot stories and geometric landscapes, a film about touch – “something very hard to do in animation basically because of the lack of a real body on screen,” Annecy Festival Artistic Director Marcel Jean commented. Em
“Amok,” (Balázs Turai, Hungary, Romania)
Annecy’s 2022 best short film Cristal. Taunted, he thinks, by an evil Santa Claus gnome,...
“Anxious Body,”
Screening at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Mizushiri’s fourth short and the first project co-produced by Japanese New Deer and France’s Miyu Productions. Employing Mizushiri’s hallmark focus on the senses, non-plot stories and geometric landscapes, a film about touch – “something very hard to do in animation basically because of the lack of a real body on screen,” Annecy Festival Artistic Director Marcel Jean commented. Em
“Amok,” (Balázs Turai, Hungary, Romania)
Annecy’s 2022 best short film Cristal. Taunted, he thinks, by an evil Santa Claus gnome,...
- 6/19/2022
- by Ben Croll, Emilio Mayorga, John Hopewell and Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
In the sea (one might say glut) of contemporary animation—a form that, by its very nature, is most often supported by the ever-watchful eye of major studios—breaths of fresh air are desperately needed. Directed by Dash Shaw, with animation direction from Jane Samborski, the sui generis Cryptozoo truly galvanized us at Sundance, our critic calling it “one of the most gorgeous works of American animation in ages.”
You’ll find that quote in the trailer Magnolia have released ahead of Cryptozoo‘s August 20 release. Having not seen the film myself, I’m rather jazzed by what’s here—ever shot offering something new to observe, a gorgeous score to boot. As Juan Barquin said, “With John Carroll Kirby’s haunting and seductive original music still playing in my head long after the credits have rolled, Cryptozoo has embedded itself into my mind. Every fascinating creature has been brought...
You’ll find that quote in the trailer Magnolia have released ahead of Cryptozoo‘s August 20 release. Having not seen the film myself, I’m rather jazzed by what’s here—ever shot offering something new to observe, a gorgeous score to boot. As Juan Barquin said, “With John Carroll Kirby’s haunting and seductive original music still playing in my head long after the credits have rolled, Cryptozoo has embedded itself into my mind. Every fascinating creature has been brought...
- 7/13/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The current state of American animated cinema is more than a little disappointing; Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, and more regurgitate the same formula and offer nothing new but a juxtaposition of cartoon designs and hyper-realistic imagery; animation for adults is all too rare. When something like Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s Cryptozoo comes along, it’s easy to recognize as one of the most gorgeous works of American animation in ages.
There is a willingness to experiment with animation and layers that is present from the very first frames of Cryptozoo that makes it immediately captivating. One simply watches two hippies roaming through the forest, engaging in their erotic and philosophical musings, without the realization that something so small and dark and intimate will explode into a psychedelic adventure that asks an important question: can humans and cryptids ever truly co-exist in peace?
As amusing as the notion of potentially...
There is a willingness to experiment with animation and layers that is present from the very first frames of Cryptozoo that makes it immediately captivating. One simply watches two hippies roaming through the forest, engaging in their erotic and philosophical musings, without the realization that something so small and dark and intimate will explode into a psychedelic adventure that asks an important question: can humans and cryptids ever truly co-exist in peace?
As amusing as the notion of potentially...
- 1/29/2021
- by Juan Barquin
- The Film Stage
The German producer/director team behind Adventures Of A Mathematician are behind the project.
Lena Vurma and Thorsten Klein, the German producer/director team behind Adventures Of A Mathematician, which is being sold by Indie Sales in the Cannes market. are hatching a new biopic based on the extraordinary life of English surrealist, Leonora Carrington who died in 2011.
The as yet untitled project has received development backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and is based on Leonora, the biographical novel by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska.
Born as the heiress to a British textiles fortune in 1917, Carrington rebelled against her background, had an...
Lena Vurma and Thorsten Klein, the German producer/director team behind Adventures Of A Mathematician, which is being sold by Indie Sales in the Cannes market. are hatching a new biopic based on the extraordinary life of English surrealist, Leonora Carrington who died in 2011.
The as yet untitled project has received development backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and is based on Leonora, the biographical novel by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska.
Born as the heiress to a British textiles fortune in 1917, Carrington rebelled against her background, had an...
- 5/16/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Madonna premiered the video for “Medellín,” her latest single with Colombian pop darling Maluma, on Wednesday via live telecast on MTV. This is her first new single since 2015’s “Iconic,” featuring Chance the Rapper and Mike Tyson.
It’s only fitting that she chose to premiere the clip on the network — her lifeline over the course of her nearly four-decade pop career — which was followed by an interview with Trevor Nelson at MTV Studios in London. The video begins with a chilling monologue from Madonna, who genuflects inside a chapel,...
It’s only fitting that she chose to premiere the clip on the network — her lifeline over the course of her nearly four-decade pop career — which was followed by an interview with Trevor Nelson at MTV Studios in London. The video begins with a chilling monologue from Madonna, who genuflects inside a chapel,...
- 4/24/2019
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Josh Appignanesi's Female Human Animal (2018) is showing in November and December, 2018 in most countries.Substituting the sub- of “subconscious” with the sur- of “surrealism,” Josh Appignanesi’s new genre-bending documentary is a meditative exploration of psychic visuality. Shot on video, the film follows novelist Chloe Aridjis, as she curates a retrospective at Tate Liverpool on Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a little known British surrealist who spent most of her life in Mexico. In the beginning of the film, the observative camera lingers on Chloe’s professional encounters with a comforting impartiality. But later the camera becomes a tool of intimation, as her infatuation with a mysterious man spirals down to the most abstract base of human desire. The presence of the camera provides in turn a grasp of reality and a descent into a dream-like state. Female Human Animal...
- 11/28/2018
- MUBI
Josh Appignanesi's Female Human Animal (2018) is showing November 22 – December 21, 2018 on Mubi in many countries around the world."Self Portrait: Inn of the Dawn Horse," 1937. © Estate of Leonora CarringtonWhy would you make a movie about a friend? If the most fascinating, moving and deeply encountered people are, de facto, the ones you’re closest to, the question should perhaps be reversed: why would you make a movie about anyone else? Of course, the novelist Chloe Aridjis, who lent a version of herself to our film Female Human Animal, is a particularly fascinating person. But then I would say that: she’s a friend. Which, when it comes to making films out of real people living their real lives, also presents a problem: what if the most interesting, dramatic, liminal, hallucinatory part of someone—the bit about them you find most compelling—is their inner life? How do you record the invisible interior with a camera?...
- 11/21/2018
- MUBI
This sui generis docu-portrait offers a behind the scenes look at the art world, as novelist Chloe Aridjis curates a retrospective of the surrealist
A new term may need to be coined to describe this deeply idiosyncratic and ramshackle docufiction hybrid from Josh Appignanesi. A zero-budget experiment in cine-portraiture, it combines footage of the novelist Chloe Aridjis curating a retrospective of the surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington at Tate Liverpool with a tale of sexual obsession also starring Aridjis, written by Appignanesi after interviewing her. The point, I think, is to dredge the unconscious, to represent inner life on screen – though I may be missing the point.
In the documentary bit, Appignanesi films Aridjis with an old VHS camera as she works on the exhibition and socialises with liberal intelligentsia chums. Aridjis has said that she is playing a character, a more socially awkward, anxious version of herself. In one of the fictional scenes,...
A new term may need to be coined to describe this deeply idiosyncratic and ramshackle docufiction hybrid from Josh Appignanesi. A zero-budget experiment in cine-portraiture, it combines footage of the novelist Chloe Aridjis curating a retrospective of the surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington at Tate Liverpool with a tale of sexual obsession also starring Aridjis, written by Appignanesi after interviewing her. The point, I think, is to dredge the unconscious, to represent inner life on screen – though I may be missing the point.
In the documentary bit, Appignanesi films Aridjis with an old VHS camera as she works on the exhibition and socialises with liberal intelligentsia chums. Aridjis has said that she is playing a character, a more socially awkward, anxious version of herself. In one of the fictional scenes,...
- 10/3/2018
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Viva! Film Festival | Belfast Film Festival
More than just cinema and more than just Castilian (fancy seeing a film in Kaqchikel?), this long-running Hispanic affair makes good use of its new home at Home with extra art exhibitions and an eye-catching theatre programme. Films include premieres of Alex de la Iglesia’s riotous New Year’s Eve farce Mi Gran Noche (Sat) and Basque family drama Amama (Mon), while Ricardo Darín’s Truman – the big winner at this year’s Goya awards – is the excuse for a celebration of everyone’s favourite Argentinian actor. Other Latin American highlights include Pablo Trapero’s The Clan (Wed), on a real-life Argentinian crime family, and Embrace Of The Serpent, in which a shaman takes explorers on a hallucinogenic trip into the Amazon (Sun). Even further out there is psychedelic 1973 Mexican horror The Mansion Of Madness (Fri), art-directed by renowned surrealist Leonora Carrington.
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More than just cinema and more than just Castilian (fancy seeing a film in Kaqchikel?), this long-running Hispanic affair makes good use of its new home at Home with extra art exhibitions and an eye-catching theatre programme. Films include premieres of Alex de la Iglesia’s riotous New Year’s Eve farce Mi Gran Noche (Sat) and Basque family drama Amama (Mon), while Ricardo Darín’s Truman – the big winner at this year’s Goya awards – is the excuse for a celebration of everyone’s favourite Argentinian actor. Other Latin American highlights include Pablo Trapero’s The Clan (Wed), on a real-life Argentinian crime family, and Embrace Of The Serpent, in which a shaman takes explorers on a hallucinogenic trip into the Amazon (Sun). Even further out there is psychedelic 1973 Mexican horror The Mansion Of Madness (Fri), art-directed by renowned surrealist Leonora Carrington.
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- 4/8/2016
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
New York. In Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good), a show at the Public Theater through Sunday, the German/British collective Gob Squad reconstructs a batch of films by Andy Warhol, in particular, of course, Kitchen (1965). Amy Taubin files a terrific report at Artforum, recalling an early-ish assessment of the film by Norman Mailer and noting "the Warhol/Godard connection." At the outset of the performance, the audience is taken on a tour of the set and told "that the black-and-white video projections which comprise almost the entire performance (and which resemble the texture and tonalities of Warhol's black-and-white 16mm films) are a simulcast of the performance taking place in the colorful, three-dimensional space behind the screens — and not a prerecorded video. The strategy works. Paradoxically, the video, which is larger than life but also ghostly, is more convincing than seeing flesh-and-blood performers moving around a...
- 2/2/2012
- MUBI
Spent all your money on Christmas presents? Feeling a bit of a Scrooge? From carols in Cambridge to live acts in Liverpool, here's our pick of the UK's cultural freebies
Bp Portrait award 2009, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
A chance to see 56 contemporary portraits from one of the most prestigious painting competitions in the world, a selection of intimate images of friends, family and celebrities selected from over 1,900 artists this year. Also exhibited is the work of Emmanouil Bitsakis, the 2008 Bp Travel award winner.
Open from 12 December to 21 February 2010
Earth from the Air, Southgate shopping centre and city centre, Bath
Throughout December and January, an exhibition of over 120 pictures will be displayed on the streets of Bath. The largescale images, created by French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, document the effects of climate change and population growth. Running concurrently is another free street gallery by award-winning wildlife photographer and conservationist Andy Rouse,...
Bp Portrait award 2009, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
A chance to see 56 contemporary portraits from one of the most prestigious painting competitions in the world, a selection of intimate images of friends, family and celebrities selected from over 1,900 artists this year. Also exhibited is the work of Emmanouil Bitsakis, the 2008 Bp Travel award winner.
Open from 12 December to 21 February 2010
Earth from the Air, Southgate shopping centre and city centre, Bath
Throughout December and January, an exhibition of over 120 pictures will be displayed on the streets of Bath. The largescale images, created by French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, document the effects of climate change and population growth. Running concurrently is another free street gallery by award-winning wildlife photographer and conservationist Andy Rouse,...
- 12/18/2009
- by Daniel Tapper
- The Guardian - Film News
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