playing pattycake with the tendrils of madness
During my teenage years and most of my adult life I've surrounded myself with art that was just plain weird. Usually the creepier the better - basically, anything that didn't conform to consensus reality or hasn't been properly contextualized and set on the shelf of our comfort zones or grown as another vine on our symbolic lattice. This sort of
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i feel like i'm on an endless (and usually fruitless) question for the stuff of late night cable tv happenstance nightmare; forgotten claymation or eastern european children's animation that pops up on a channel you didn't know existed. i don't come across a lot of it and i'm afraid if i started to really delve into researching it online i'd lose myself (and my life savings) to acquiring it...so these little moments of discovery are precious. i just ordered a copy. i feel the world melting already. ahhh...thank you!
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the dutch cartoon "Dr. Snuggles"
the Doctor Doolittle movies from the 60s, especially the giant pink snail (oh god and chitty chitty bang bang)
the "Unico" cartoons (before anime became omnipresent in our culture)
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Are you familiar with Sally Cruikshank? Seriously, if you aren't, youtube Face like a Frog immediately. She's one of the most frighteningly creative and playful animators ever - and an indelible part of my childhood (and many others, as she used to work on Sesame Street as an animator too - though her independent works will transform your frontal lobe into a salivating single-celled amoeba).
As for eastern european animation, if you haven't checked out Ladislaw Starewicz stuff I recommend you do. He was an educated entomologist and made stop-motion shorts using bugs! Long before Jan Svankmeyer used taxidermied animals and insects in his stop-motion endeavors. Check out The Cameraman's Revenge if you want a good look at his early works.
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