icaci
I remember short scenes from this movie being aired on TV1000 (or was it CANAL+?) when I was younger. I had just bought a book on ray-tracing and was wondering how did they do that outstanding animation when it took an hour of my puny PC to render just a simple scene. I never knew the name of the movie - they just aired uncredited parts of it on the TV to fill the gaps in the schedule. Some days ago I found it by chance and I'm very happy - it brought me back to my happier childhood :)Overall - great music and great animation. Very advanced CGI scenes for the time of its making. And the music blends flawlessly with the video. It's definitely not some random 3DS Max video & electronic sound compilation like the ones creeping around nowadays.
barney_holmes
I saw this on a Channel 4 special in, I think it was the mid 1990's. It was shown with a few documentaries with early technology/internet enthusiasts, and Arthur C Clarke doing an investigation of Fractals. In the post Cold War chaos and building Millennial angst it was a God send. The animations brilliantly hinted at the things to come. With our current rapidly developing plans for a return to the Moon, I wonder if anyone can remember the dark days (for me anyway) of the 1990's ? We go from pure adrenalin rushes of video game inspired story telling. A robot escaping from the system to find the extraordinary Universe outside ? What does that sound like ? We go from that to deeper pieces about human creativity, and the creativity of life itself, to stunning pieces of illusionary animation, using techniques I've never seen before or since.Highly unusual, in my opinion, almost spooky in it's affirmation of the pure force of life itself, ironically, expressed through the cold machine. Touching, positive and upbeat.DJ Barney
ccthemovieman-1
In the early '90s computer animation was beginning to take hold and one-hour films like this would feature this new technology. There is supposed to be a story here, but good luck finding it. The fun is in the visuals which range from good to outstanding. My favorite segment is the music one with the jazz players and Washington-Lincoln. Speaking of music, not all of it is the standard instrumentals. There are a couple of vocals. There also is some short narration. The whole thing is about 45 minutes with 10 minutes of ending credits tacked on.This may be over a decade old in a technology that has grown leaps and bounds, but it's still good stuff and worth checking out.
fatbelly
I like this film a lot, only discovered it this year, I've Alysa's had the taste of electronic music and the weird visuals which I love, but not supposed to say because you'll have to Watch it yourself. Thomas Dolby is a musical genius as everybody else may have said, the former mad scientist who composed Hyperactive! and that video was funny, strange, but good and May The Cube Be With You which is also great, I like his music, but haven't the other film he composed which was Gothic, got the album, but never played it. This film was forgotten because most people like proper movies rather than musicals, but I liked it.
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