Narrative Film Screening 5

The first animation we watched today was called Glens Gloves by Mikey Please, it is a Stop Motion animation about a miner who digs down into the ground and who ends up in a strange world, where a giant with one hand crushes a building.

Secondly we watched an animation called Eagleman Stag also by Mikey Please. This is a Stop Motion animation about a man who discovers a Beetle that can re-grow its head and he calls it the 'Eagleman Stag'. The man however decides to retain this knowledge for himself. This is a brilliant animation made using a foam material as shown below:

Finally today we watched an animation entitled 'It's Such a Beautiful Day' by Don Hertzfeldt. This 2D animation was about a stick man called Bob who tries to come to terms with his life. He questions how many days he spends doing the same tasks, for example cleaning and brushing his teeth. As the film continues it is a mixture of 2D animation with real backgrounds and one of the main quotes that I took from this film is that the "Passage of time is an illusion as all of infinity is actually happening all at once". Overall I did not greatly enjoy this film but it contained some good quotes.