Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
I love the style of this film. It reminds me a little of Giger‘s art, a bit of Druillet, and a tad from The Mind’s Eye. The story puts a twist on the idea of exogenesis or panspermia in a very well done animation. The almost-continuous evolution of the mechanical bio-analogues through its life-cycle of adapting local materials and spreading that bio-actual over the planet is quite stunning and beautiful in its fluid complexity.
Animated by Richard Mans.
Alan Parsons was primarily an album engineer and music producer when he teamed up with Eric Woolfson in 1974. Best known for his engineering work on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and a couple of Beatles albums, Parsons was becoming a bit exasperated with the musicians he generally worked with and wanted to create music his way. Woolfson, a composer and musician, had a large work based on Edgar Alan Poe’s stories that wasn’t easy to produce.
Thus came Tales of Mystery and Imagination in 1976.
As a fan of Poe, and a fan of long progressive rock story tracks ala Rush, it got my attention right away. When The Alan Parsons Project released I Robot in 1977 I was completely hooked. I blame I Robot for my enduring love of electronic music.
This is the video for the title track from The Time Machine, released in 1999, animated by Ben Liebrand.
Finally, after many requests the instrumental version of this track with video clip as it was originally intended. This 3D animation was made in 1999 as the official video-promo for Alan Parsons – Time Machine. Mere days before completion, in surfaced that the latest Austin Powers movie at that time would mention “Alan Parsons Project”. At the very last minute a version was made with quotes from the movie, reasoning that one would benefit the other. Now for the first time ever, I present you the clip as it was intended, without Mike Myers’ quotes. – Ben Liebrand
Sometimes life steps in to take the wind out of self-important sails, and sometimes it’s the domotics.
A fun animation that packs in a good bunch of classic and new music clips. A snippet of Caravan Palace’s Suzy really starts the current flowing in this short.
Directed by Hugo Cierzniak and produced at Delapost Paris.
I have to admit, I’m a bit of a grump when I wake up, too.
The film relates how the temple of Zeus at Olympia was destroyed.
Directed by Félix Hazeaux, Thomas Nitsche, Kilian Olmos, Simon Popot, Aurélien Revelli, and Caroline Tarrago.
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