Journal lucasw's Journal: Bumbershoot 2003 1 Reel Film Festival
Last year I saw a lot more of the short films at Bumbershoot, and probably enjoyed them a lot more. This time around I've become much more familiar with local music and had a lot of music to see. I did see a couple on one day and then most of the 'Best of' shorts.
Ideally, a couple of the films should be so incredible I'd want to go out an try to make something a tenth as good, or simply be filled with awe and want to tell the world how funny, moving, or whatever the film was.
David Russo's Populi did that for me last year. It's like nothing I'd ever seen, and the powerful music (I think it was Mars from The Planets symphony). For part of it, each frame is a picture or a large rock being rolled around a city. Even though the rock is in a different position for each roll, apparently they repainted a picture on it that matches up very well with the previous frames. It's hard to describe, but just looks insane on the big screen. After doing some research, I found it can be seen silently on a screen at the Seahawks stadium, as it was originally commissioned by the city of Seattle.
This year, he did something called "Pan With Us", which used similar animation techniques, but seemed shorter and less ambitious. It was by far the best thing I saw at the festival, regardless.
The Strange Condition of Professor DeGroot was funny and entertaining (and later disturbing), with some interesting and visually appealling and overused focus effects.
The Erlking was another animation, made with sand other sources say. Pretty good.
Some computer generated animation about aliens being threatened by technological superior spaceship had some interesting visuals, but there were very static. The aliens looked like they were designed to be easy to animate- cartoony features and a floating tailing instead of legs.
Another was a pseudo-documentary about a package delivery guy on a motorized scooter.
Most of these were decent, but so lackluster no one would bother watching if they weren't a captive audience in a theater. Even when something is funny, people laugh not because it's really funny but out of relief they aren't seeing another film about sex-slaves from Thailand or war refugees somewhere else or similar.
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