FUBARRRRRR!!!!
Seeing Liquid Television shit on 16mm on the big screen, I mean, I was cheesing brother - exquisite moron punk anarchy with great technical chops, that 3D rotation of the “camera” through space to capture a cop car getting getting flattened by a train is one of the great moments of homespun indie American animation. Compare/contrast with The Death Lullaby if you want a laugh.
Not unexpected from a Soviet theorist but still love how this foregrounds cinema as an act of labor, the act of setting down all the chairs in a cinema and winding the film through a projector and editing the film with scissors by hand to project 18 images a second captured by hauling your camera out into the world to document what you see (and even digging trenches and manufacturing rigs/tripods/supports for your more elaborate trick shots), and then, what…
God it is so heartbreaking that this movie has dialogue
Things that get POV shots in this movie:
- An elevator button being pressed
- A lady getting her glasses broken
- A lady being shown a police photo
- A rodeo bull chasing a clown
- Raymond Cruz getting a beer from his cooler
- Raymond Cruz doing pushups
- A dog drinking from his water bowl
- The front of a car with bull horns on it as it drives (x2)
- A rotating fan (x2)
- A…
