Seminar Week 9 & 10: Death, Time and Animation

One of my favorite classic stories is the The Epic of Gilgamesh . Even though the story is the oldest known written text it is not very oft...

During my travels in Europe a few years back I came a cross a DVD of recent European animated films at a small art gallery in Paris. I was ...

Harry Smith has been dubbed by many to be one of the worlds last Alchemists. Sensational in life, excessive in collection and larger in lif...

There was an interesting Japanese animation series that came out about five years ago that was really quite spectacular. Both in its animat...

Now I must admit that Quantum of Mechanics, Relative theory and String theory really leave me in the dust a lot of the time. Lots of times ...

Brakhage died because of animation. He died in the pursuit of pushing the technique founded by Len Lye....or Harry Smith (no one seems to kn...

One film in Japanese animation (anime) that has received quite a bit of spot light is Akira from 1987. The introduction is one of the most ...