The application of stop-motion photography to a series of chalk drawings on a blackboard helped realize what is generally considered the earliest animated film, Émile Cohl’s two-minute “Fantasmagorie.” From France, it remains one of the masterpieces of the genre, a miniature (though major) work of elastic possibilities encompassing kaleidoscopic visual transformations, with a roly-poly clown […]
Daily Archives: September 23, 2011
Adapted by Georges Perec from his 1967 book, Un homme qui dort follows a twentysomething student as he (mostly) walks the streets of Paris, including at night and in rain, “[rejecting] nothing and [refusing] nothing,” “[letting] go and [allowing] himself to be carried along.” He is, in some sense, asleep, dreaming. Like Perec, whom the […]
Dennis Grunes 