A programme of avant-garde animated films will be shown at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Communication Arts in Bangkok on 2nd April. Now and Then: Experimental Animation is the thirty-fourth event in the Weekly Screening series organised by Nitade CU Movie Club.
Now and Then is split into two sessions: Then is a discerningly curated selection of short films spanning the entire history of animation, and Now features animation in contemporary cinema. The key pioneers of experimental animation — Émile Cohl, Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye, Stan Brakhage, and Jan Švankmajer — are all represented.
Highlights include one of the very first animated films, Cohl’s Fantasmagorie (‘phantasmagoria’). Fischinger’s Optical Poem is a beautiful abstract film made with paper circles. Lye’s Free Radicals features scratches cut into the film negative. For Mothlight, Brakhage stuck moths’ wings and other materials directly onto the celluloid, to create the first literal collage film.
Now and Then is split into two sessions: Then is a discerningly curated selection of short films spanning the entire history of animation, and Now features animation in contemporary cinema. The key pioneers of experimental animation — Émile Cohl, Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye, Stan Brakhage, and Jan Švankmajer — are all represented.
Highlights include one of the very first animated films, Cohl’s Fantasmagorie (‘phantasmagoria’). Fischinger’s Optical Poem is a beautiful abstract film made with paper circles. Lye’s Free Radicals features scratches cut into the film negative. For Mothlight, Brakhage stuck moths’ wings and other materials directly onto the celluloid, to create the first literal collage film.
