Black and white, shades of gray.
Textures, depth, eyes astray.
The minions moved into Henrik Galeen’s 1922 silent film adaptation of Brahm Stoker’s “Nosferatu” – minus the suspense. A world where the cute little good-book-toting visitor knocks on the wrong door. Door opens, door closes. The little guy gets stabbed. Creepy.
Order pizza. Shoot the delivery guy. Feed your dog – blood pizza (pizza sangre, right?). How can the cutest little characters in the world, with such endearing sounds, live in this macabre “world?” The three animated micro short films by Marc Craste use dramatic lighting, black and white images, no dialogue, and cool rust-like textures to create television-tube-inspired characters whose faces are within the glow of white screens.
Does the little screen-dog steal the walking cane from a blind-guy to take to his owner to help him walk, not understanding that his owner is actually dead with gallons of blood on the wall. Or did the dog take the cane because he wanted it, then went to eat the little dead guy? Dog? I think he is a dog, because the short is called ‘Hounds of Flesh” and I think it’s blood, even though there is no red.
I don’t know why anything happens in these short films, but the aesthetics were inviting enough to hold my attention when the subject was clearly not what I would normally choose for my personal entertainment. Inviting enough to keep me clicking around the website – to the Winter Olympics short, to the Basketball film and the most entertaining of all “Yeah, Just There.” On the lighter side, how sexy can a triangle, a comma and some circles be? Check it out at http://sohosoho.tv/showreels/68befbf1ee6aec8c5842 if you didn’t wonder upon it on your own…
