Orgiastic Hyper Plastic / Orgiastična hiper plastika
Paul Bush (Late Love Production)
2020, UK, Denmark, 7’
An animated extravaganza of plastic collected from beaches, roadsides, attics and junk shops. This is an elegy to a love affair that has gone sour, a fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has enslaved our planet – plastic. This 7-minute experimental film is a development of Paul Bush’s pioneering technique of animated photographs and stop frame animation of objects.
Animirana ekstravaganca iz plastike, nabrane na plažah, ob cestah, na podstrešjih in v trgovinah s staro šaro. To je elegija ljubezenskemu razmerju, ki se je izrodilo, in toplo slovo od tistega najlepšega materiala, ki je zasužnjil naš planet - plastike. Ta 7-minutni eksperimentalni film je nadgradnja pionirske tehnike Paula Busha, ki združuje animirane fotografije in stop animacijo predmetov.
Language: English (on-screen text)
Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes
Technique: Object animation, replacement animation
Team
Written and directed by Paul Bush
Music: Andy Cowton
Animation: Paul Bush, Philip Piaget, Christophe Peladan, Shinobu Soejima, Kristina Sletting Jensen
Cinematography: Paul Bush, Christophe Peladan
Paul Bush
(1956-2023). From the obituary published in: “The Guardian”, www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/19/paul-bush-obituary: Having experimented briefly with animation as a student, he returned to the medium in the 1990s, with the encouragement and support of Channel 4’s then commissioning editor for animation, Clare Kitson, and aided by the Arts Council of England’s funding for innovative work. This allowed him to start producing films that were laborious in their making process but compelling and seductive to the viewer. Paul’s enduring excitement about the mechanisms of film-making and perception translated into playful explorations of the possibilities for frame-by-frame production. As his films did not generate much in the way of money, Paul made a living by teaching all over the world, including at the National Film and Television School in the UK, the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland, Harvard University and the International School of Film and TV in Cuba. Possessed of a razor-sharp wit, he was a kind and generous teacher. His ex-students populate the world of experimental film-making, and his films and his teaching have made a lasting impact in the world of innovative visual culture.
Find more:
www.asifa.net/irreplaceable-remembering-paul-bush,
www.cartoonbrew.com/know-your-indie-filmmaker/know-your-indie-filmmaker-paul-bush-231815.html
www.stoptrik.com/2023special/remembering