Thursday, November 19, 2009

Ladislaw Starewicz and the best stop motion animation of all time.

I am suddenly addicted to the stop motion animation of Ladislaw Starewicz.


http://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/STARE/stare1.htm

I just watched "The Mascot" which was an extra (what?) on the DVD of Vampyr I saw tonight. Incredible. I wouldn’t recommend trying to watch the versions of this that seem to be floating around YouTube as the modern music is just... wrong... But if you can find this somewhere, DO IT. It features, as tertiary characters, a reanimated chicken skeleton (and even creepier, it’s reanimated egg/skeleton/chick thing), a thug doll, various and sundry straw beasts, and last but not least, the devil, that pops up as a living SPILL from a discarded wine bottle.

Let me reiterate that last part; a wine bottle is discarded, it spills as it hits the curb, and the spill TURNS INTO THE DEVIL. Amazing.




(Originally posted on April 9th, 2008)

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