Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Speaking of PoMo
This might be the coolest thing I've seen all week. The first episode of the "Animatrix" Was released last month with the 2nd episode to follow this month. The "Animatrix" is a series of anime-style shorts set in the "Martix" universe. The first episode tells the story of how the machines became the dominant power of the earth. It is REALLY cool. Great animation and some really cool sequences. There is a montage of the first Machine uprising that visually references a bunch of films/images that have become part of our mass-culture. The exicution of the South Vietnamese officer from "Hearts and Minds," the tanks rolling on the protesters in Tiananmen Square, and the bulldozers filling graves from "Night and Fog." Some of it is pretty gruesome but between the news-footage montage and the opening long-shot it is some of the best animation I've seen since "Spirited Away." You can check it out Here.
posted by JMV |
3/05/2003 01:49:00 PM
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