FILMS
Do Not Watch This Movie on Acid
If you watch one 10-minute video starring a vagina house, a mechanical bird, and a demanding stereo on the internet today, let it be "kHz." Created by Daniel Bird, the short is an unfinished work that's mind-boggling, regardless. One part Jan Svankmajer, one part Quay Brothers, it's a freakishly surrealist peek into another world in which everything is simultaneously anthropomorphized and mechanized. According to the caption and the comments thread, Bird posted the unfinished work online as a way of pushing his coworker into working on completing it. "After two to three years of working on this short (model-making, set-building, animating) my co-director and cameraman took the masters to New York with him, with the promise that he would look after the compositing, wire-removal and grading. Three years later, I'm still waiting..." Bird's subsequent comments suggest the piece may be finished one day, after all--although, as several viewers say, it's pretty fucking great, either way. |Circuitry|
by Susannah Breslin on August 15, 2008