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Collection of short films (about 10 minutes each) created by the progressive Studio 4°C over the past year or so. |
References here: Amazing Nuts (2006). |
animation fiction Japanese production moving picture |
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Entry:
“End of the World” (2002) IMDb
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Gory randomness. |
Subject |
Two girls meet at a dadaist punk concert. One of them turns a portion of the other’s apartment into a portal to a hideous world and proceeds to seek annihilating vengeance there, but fails. |
Commentary |
Bad surrealism. |
animation fiction Japanese production moving picture |
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Entry:
“Professor Dan Petory’s Blues” (2002) IMDb
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Humorous randomness. |
Subject |
A bitter domestic argument is abandoned when the woman turns on the TV. An unhealthy puppeteer distracts her with a show about common misperceptions, such as the wisdom of linear UFO travel. |
Commentary |
Lots of styles are demonstrated and the humour is quite good. |
animation fiction Japanese production moving picture |
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Entry:
“Comedy” (2002) IMDb
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Steampunk. |
Subject |
An Irish woman recalls how, when she was 5, she gave an old book to a nearby bishounen. In return, he took on a detachment of English cavalry. |
Commentary |
Animated in peculiar shaky cinématographe style, very little dialogue, set to classical music. A perfect mode for the bizarre little story. |
animation fiction Japanese production moving picture |
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Entry:
“Higan” (2002) IMDb
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Dark mecha action. |
Subject |
A commander recalls his last battle. |
Commentary |
Conventional by 4°C short-film standards. Higan is the equinoctial week when people visit graves and meet their ancestors in Japanese Buddhism. |
animation fiction Japanese production mecha moving picture |
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