"And
I'm still carrying the gift you gave,
It's a part of me now, it's been cherished and saved,
It'll be with me unto the grave
And then unto eternity."
(Bob Dylan)
It's a part of me now, it's been cherished and saved,
It'll be with me unto the grave
And then unto eternity."
(Bob Dylan)
OK, were
the music from an actual band, we would be tempted to simply dismiss this
hypnotic short as an exceptionally unique music video (not that a music video can't also be a short
film with narrative — see this one here by Die Fanta 4).
More than anything, however, Love & Theft is a mesmerizing exercise of merging animation
with rhythm. (The great music is from Heiko Maile.)
Love & Theft was written and directed and animated by Andreas
Hykade, the twisted mind behind the equally rhythmic and odd animated Freudian
cowboy short Ring of Fire (2000), our Short Film of the Month for March 2011.
Among the many metamorphosing faces down in a style that promptly brings to
mind Jim Woodring's Frank:
Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Spider-man, Adolf H., Droopy Dog, and KoKo the Clown, to name but a few. We don't see
much content or story in this surreal short, but for that we want to watch it
again and again and again.
Like that?
The check out these other Short Films of the Month: Muzorama
(Dec 2011) and Kunstbar
(Sept 2011). Or Cyriak's cows & cows & cows
(2010) or Baaa!
(2011), neither of which we would want to watch on acid.
