http://www.anapoda.info A world of animation goodness Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:57:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en show_262e231f826140(425, 350); Directed by Georges Schwizgebel. Description (JHailey): The circle of life. A child sits alone on a playground merry-go-round. All around are images of life: a woman reclining, a couple standing. These images revolve as accordion music fills the air. Circular images - the rim of a coffee cup, the merry-go-round, ... http://www.anapoda.info/78-tours show_8ac0081c1695d6(425, 350); Directed by Paul Berry. Description (jhailey at hotmail dot com): On a dark night, as the clock strikes eight, a mother sends her child upstairs to bed with only a candle for light. The child is wary, then frightened. The child hears something climbing the stairs. We see a birdlike ... http://www.anapoda.info/the-sandman show_136c6921a6c74b(425, 350); Directed by Yuriy Norshteyn and written by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya and Yuriy Norshteyn. Description: To my shame I have to admit I've been so busy lately I haven't gotten around to watching this fully, just skipped through a few scenes, was impressed, so I'm just going to throw in a comment ... http://www.anapoda.info/shazka-skazok-tale-of-tales show_80610ae0fbb845(425, 350); Directed by Tex Avery. Description (Reidar Lyng): Most of you probably know this classic cartoon already. Instead of the usual bit, the characters of the fairy-tale absolutely refuse to do the tale in the same old way. Little Red Riding Hood turns herself into the hottest singer in town, the ... http://www.anapoda.info/red-hot-riding-hood show_65d49196a875a2(425, 350); Directed and written by Adam Elliot. Description (Jon Reeves): The sad, strange life of Harvie, who is born into an impoverished Middle European existence, and whose one constant is the book of "fakts" he keeps adding to, worn around his neck. After a childhood tragedy, he emigrates to Australia, where ... http://www.anapoda.info/harvie-krumpet show_41f23e452384b1(425, 350); Directed by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, written by Wendy Tilby. Description: This Oscar nominee will seem strange at first seeing as it's about people, but represented as animals, in a daily human environment, performing typical human actions. The point of the animation, as far as I can tell is ... http://www.anapoda.info/when-the-day-breaks show_aba627859ecde3(425, 350); Directed by Yuriy Norshteyn, written by Sergei Kozlov . Description: This is yet another wonderful piece of russian animation, and it has that specific feel to it too. It is the story of a little hedgehog that embarks on a journey to see his friend, the bear, but gets lost ... http://www.anapoda.info/yozhik-v-tumane-hedgehog-in-the-fog show_9ce2e37734a42f(425, 350); Directed by Walt Disney, drawn by Ub Iwerks. Description: Another important part of cartoon animation history, Walt Disney's dancing skeletons put together a wonderful cartoon filled with original humor, music and sound effects. Amazingly, this cartoon was created as early as 1929, and at that time could only be viewed ... http://www.anapoda.info/the-skeleton-dance show_433824fbae42c1(425, 350); Written and directed by Steve Box, produced (among others) by Nick Park. Description: This is one of the earlier animated pieces for which Nick Park acted as executive producer, and although it won a BAFTA award, it is quite different from some of his more famous later work, such as ... http://www.anapoda.info/stage-fright show_6de18745ffaf17(425, 350); Directed by Christoph Lauenstein and Wolfgang Lauenstein. Description (fordraff[at]verizon[dot]net) : This short film was completely absorbing and finely worked out. It held my attention from the moment it began until the conundrum of an ending, which earned it a round of applause at the 19th Street Theatre in Allentown, PA, ... http://www.anapoda.info/balance