Revisiting music that is soft and full in my heart.
Green Arrow. Yo La Tengo
Yesterday I visited P, he has just come out of hospital having just had an operation on his heart. He was dressed in pale blue pajamas covered in white clouds. My gift was strawberries.
Agnes smelly pooch seemed happy to have him back.
I talked to P about the film 'Tin TIn and I', how beautifully constructed it was, and how it touched upon certain ambiguities that occurred in WW2. Perhaps I wanted to tell P more about how touched I felt by the film. It didn't directly talk about Herge's actual crafting of Tin Tin, yet everything explored in the film pertained to the act of creating marks on a page, creating characters. Of expression through the creation of these characters. What an incredible life of drawing. Its funny, I didn't expect such a sensitive film.
Agnes McSmell and D left to see someone about sky lights. It struck me on this visit to P, of how little sky I cast my eyes on in my current climate. The clouds were beautiful yesterday.
P showed me one of the first books he had as a child. It had very rich colours and beautiful lithographic marks, washy tush tone and litho crayon. The typography was all hand set. It would have been an edition of 1100 (from memory?). 'Just' a book for children.
We looked at a few books illustrated by Jiri Trinka. They are fabulous and beautiful.
Then we looked at quite afew more illustrated books. (All in Czech). Two of them had the tale of 'Otesanek'. ( A traditional Czech folk tale. Jan Svankmajer animated a film of this story). Such magnificent books. Many more thoughts here...
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I meant to write about the dvd "More Animation Greats" a National Film Board of
Canada collection (new at the RMIT library) that I watched the other day. Have to discuss later.
Lots of educational material housed in querky, funny and sometimes dull (too many Health and Safety messages for example) animation. Pick of the bunch was The Family that Dwelt Apart. It had fantastic narration. There was also a real corker by Richard Condie in 3D! La Salla. Bizarre and funny! I'll write about that one later.
Thoughts today.
Do animations have to be classified to assess/contextualize what kind of ideological 'charge' they carry/house deliver?
I have to leave this here. I'll faff up my words even more if I continue.
(my) Yo La Tengo (cd) finished filling the room with nifty ditties and salubrious e-bow tones too many moments ago.
Alan Mitelman exhibition. NGV. :)
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