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"Mécanomagie" takes a stylish, performative path through
the landscape of the Ardennes in northern Luxembourg. "Live action"
pixilated animation evokes a grounded paisant consciousness of "natural
forces" and folkloric myths of the humanoid Jitzerten that pass
unnoticed across the country. Along the way, imaginative constructions
reveal such marvel as the anthropomorphic nature of rocks, children
born of soil and a mysterious bloody book of beetles. The film's success
lies in its elegant blending of magical neo-surrealist otherworldliness
with a fundamental earth-boundedness.
A trembling landscape is haunted by a static and yet moving figur -
a man turned into a machine? In "Mécanomagie" both
the borders of perception and laws of nature are breached so that something
new may emerge: nature in a boundless state of intoxication!
It is as if the invisible world has an understanding with this world,
the hyperreal forces its way into the common. The movement as deviation
causes change. It surrealises the banal, and makes the commonplace eerie.
The film maintains a relationship to both worlds, allows a double vision.
Its seductive power lies primarily in the ambiguity of what it makes
possible - its deviant shooting process - and what is possible outside
of that.
Surreal and cheerful. Very rural animation. A landscape in which everything
moves is touched by a static figure that also moves - a kind of mechanical
man? Boundaries of perception and laws (of nature) are broken to create
something new. A fantastic, bizarre animation film full of sensuality,
symbolism and surrealist images.
The Morton Theater was the place to be all last week for excitement,
personal drama, well-executed profanity and comical twists! Noteworthy
were the fast paced, well-shot short "Bicycle" by Jonathan
Kaplan and the stop-motion landscape in the strange Luxembourg/Catholic-themed
"Mécanomagie" by Bady Minck.
I especially liked Bady Minck's Mecanomagie, an almost gnostic fable in which humans can seem stone-faced, rocks are split apart to reveal living organs, clouds streaking across a pixilated sky seem to be alive, and young children sprout as if born from the soil.
"Un chien andalou" is obviously a big influence. Although
there are some fine moments in the film, especially the cakes growing
on trees - it seems a little forced at times.
"Mécanomagie", tohum ekimi, tohumun büyümesi
ve hasattan oluşan, çok eski zamanlardan beri süregelen
çemberi betimler; din, ritüeller ve doğanin mistik
güçlerinden oluşan bir evren. Film, bir manzaranin
kolektif bilincini kuşatir. Film, eşzamanli olarak yollarda
zig-zaglar çizerek ilerlerken, yerli halktan kimsenin dikkatini
çekmeyen insan benzeri yaratiklari, "Jitzerten"i anlatir.
"Mécanomagie", canli animasyon tekniğinin kullanildiği
bir filmdir. |
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