ENTERTAINMENT
‘Festival of Animation’ opens eyes, entertains
FESTIVAL OF
ANIMATION
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Bijou Art Theatres
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By Peter Cogswell
Emerald Associate Editor
The fact that there are no real
limits on the making of their
films makes animators some of
the most innovative film mak
ers in the world.
Nowhere is this more evident
than in the Festival of Anima
tion currently showing at the
Bijou Art Theaters.
The festival, which brings to
gether animated films from all
over the world, is comprised of
17 short films that range in
length from two to 2.\ minutes.
Nearly all the primary forms
of animation are represented,
but it's two daymation films —
Grand Day Out and Creature
Comforts — that steal the show.
Both films are done by Brit
ain's Nick Park, but this is their
only similarity.
Grand Day Out. the longest
film of the festival, is the story
of a man and his dog, and a trip
they make to the moon. Crea
ture Comforts, on the other
hand, involves animals in a zoo
discussing the pros and cons of
life in captivity.
Both films, but especially
Grand Day Out. leave the view
er wondering how long it must
have taken Park and his staff to
make them. The detail and ef
fects. not to mention the crea
Two claym a tion
films — Grand Day
Out and Creature
Comforts — steal
the show.
five nature of the stories, are
staggering in both films
One aspect of animated films
that can be easily overlooked in
the wake of being left in awe by
the feats illustrators can accom
plish, is the fact that several
films have a strong underlying
moral message.
One film of this ilk is Bruno
Bo/.etto's Grasshopper. Another
is Mother Goose, done by the
American animator David Bish
op
Bozetto's film, which comes
to the festival from Italy, traces
the battles that have been
waged throughout history —
from man's earliest days to the
present era.
After a battle or a series of
battles is fought. Bozetto has a
meadow of grass spring up on
the site where the last battle
took place — only to be built
upon and crushed by the next
civilization that comes along.
After the last battle. Bozetto
uses a kind of surprise ending
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about what he (relieves people
should l)e doing instead of
waging war w ith each other
Bishop's short is a rather
gruesome film that satirizes
fairy tales by taking them liter
ally as they were written
In this film, the viewer sees
the throe blind mice massacred
by lbi' farmer's wife, and Robin
Hood no on a killing spri'i' w illi
lus bow and arrows
While the film was received
bv laughter from the audienu’.
il did send the message that
maybe fairly tales told by par
ents to their children are not
necessarily appropriate for ohil
dren of all ages
The remaining films in the
festival range from .1 computer
generated lands* ape present.1
lion to a dragon w indsurfing on
a ictliner
films from the Soviet Union,
itulgaria and Czechoslovakia
also make up some of the more
interesting and enjoyable view
ing of the festival
l-'ven the films that are diffi
cult to understand and not net:
essarils visually pleasing to
watch, like the llritish film
I)ear/.sev. are interesting in
their own right They show
some of the more bizarre and
innovative techniques heing
used m this innovative genre
The festival runs through
|au 17. with shows nightly at 7
and ‘1: it) p tit
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