Stop Motion Fact #3 from my article: It hosts one of the creepiest videos on youtube Enter David Firth, a British animator famously known for his short animation series titled Salad Fingers, and his lesser known short, Crooked Rot. Somewhere in my film school years, my sound professor once told me, music is something that is not always meant to be heard, however, to be felt. This can perfectly be applied to David Firth’s 2008 short stop motion animation entitled crooked rot, which makes absolutely no sense if not meant to be felt. Crooked rot is a surreal, horror short which involves severely disturbing scenes such as severed hands, blood sucking tubes, faces with no eye sockets, pig heads, scratchy music, and hundreds of other mind boggling images not meant to be seen by the squeamish or the epileptic. David Firth started out by mostly making stop motion shorts in art school, creating disturbing scenes which can only really be compared to their sequel, Crooked Rot –which I highly recommend you go and watch if you haven’t. Though Firth holds his title as a controversial figure due to his animations mostly being grotesque, and often portrait without a linear time-line, many animators recognize his works as very intriguingly interesting, and never forgotten as they dive into you mind as a drilled nail through a wall. Firth explains that at a certain point, he had gotten bored of writing in a straight time-line, and decided to take more motivation from dreams and the subconscious, than from stories and films of what one can consider the norm. This is something which was similarly portrayed by Andre Breton, founder of the surrealist movement which sought out the realization of the molding of the subconscious, into reality. youtube/watch?v=oYjny4qNy24
Posted on: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 01:50:47 +0000
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