Brobzoid said:
Jan Svankmajer
Stop motion animator of unparalleled skill. Has made several feature films including Alice (a terrifying spin on the old alice on wonderland tale) and Faust (also a know tale, but this one has a clay baby; a must-see!). But he also has a huge catalog of shorts which you should buy faster than you've ever bought anything before.
I practically grew up watching a lot shorts, animated or not, in television, but the ones I remember the most are those of
Jan vankmajer. At first (and I was a impressionable little boy when I watched them) they creeped my out but at the same time fascinated me, and all these years later after watching his shorts so many times and been able to comprehend them better, they still fascinate me, but in a whole new level. These bring me good memories:
Jan vankmajer - Dimensions Of Dialogue Pt:1 (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocj4-y6sc9o
Jan vankmajer - Dimensions Of Dialogue Pt:2 (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaMIR7uRTLo
I have seen a lot of your post here in
NeoGAF,
GhaleonQ, and as you have a incredible knowledge and passion for russian animation, maybe you can tell me something about when (about time already)
Yuriy Norshteyn is going to let us see more than two miserable fragments in animated GIF format of
The Overcoat (Шине́ль
. Please, tell me if you know.
Between the above thing, all the problems related to the old
Soyuzmultfilm (Союзмультфи́льм
rights madness that prevented proper releases of some of their best films, and the already difficult cultural and linguistic barrier, it is pretty difficult to attempt be a russian animation fan.
