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Young filmmaker 1969-76: Vintage 16-mm animated films & TV interview, preserved on relic VHS tape
About this film
1. Vancouver Cable 10 interview of filmmaker Stephen Arthur Bowlsby – part one (with Martin Truax) 2. Absurdo (animation) 0:03:14 3. Interview part two 0:06:56 4. Anizen (animation) 0:11:58 5. Interview part three 0:19:23 6. REM (live action) 0:22:37 7. Interview part four 0:54:40 Absurdo , 1971 (16 mm, 4 min.) -- Surreal stream-of-consciousness character-animation involving metamorphosis, visual tricks, and symbolic interplay. Drawing on paper. Made during high-school years; finished during Grade 10, started independently in 1969 at age 15 , originally produced on Super-8mm film, then extended and re-shot on 16-mm film with encouragement and financial support from the Vancouver School Board and a media teacher at Eric Hamber Secondary School. Anizen , 1975 (16 mm, 7 min.) -- Based on an Alan Watts Zen-Buddhist parable about the creation of the universe and the nature of God -- a platform for surrealist animation and transformation of abstract, non-representational forms. Live-action, rotoscoped, and cutout characters frame the abstract animation of the main body of the film as a story told to a grandson -- a creation story that eventually gets out of control. Ink and paint on cels…
Directors & creators
Stephen Arthur Bowlsby (Stephen X. Arthur)
Subjects
Adolescent, teenage, high school, outsider art, primitive art, naïve art, untrained, amateur, deteriorated, relic, vintage, ethnographic, artifact, memorial, legacy, hand drawn, cel animation, youth animation, antique, obsolete, independent film, 1970s, surrealist film, abstract animation, experimental film, fine-art animation, 16mm, 16 mm, telecine VHS transfer, image loss, restored, student film, Vancouver, Canada, Stephen Bowlsby, Stephen X. Arthur; Stephen Arthur
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