250 great animated short films
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| Pixillation (1970), directed by Lillian Schwartz. |
The fourteenth essay, “Animating Without a Narrative,” is
published in full at Press Play at IndieWire.
Written by guest blogger Scott Bussey, this is an unusually personal
essay on the abstract animated short films of Adam Beckett and Lillian Schwartz.
Adam Beckett was an animator and
visual effects artist who attended the California Institute of the Arts during
the 1970s, where he learned from and studied alongside important members of the
LA experimental animation scene. Lillian Schwartz is a pioneer in the field of
computer art who worked out of Bell Labs during the 1970s, then going on to
develop tools for computer-aided analysis of art, particularly finding
inspiration in the work of Leonardo Da Vinci. Each of these relatively unknown
animators is represented by one work on the “250 Great Animated Short Films”
list: Heavy-Light (1973) for
Beckett and Pixillation (1970)
for Schwartz.
This series of 21 essays is inspired by a list of 250 great animated short films, composed in August 2012 by Scott Bussey, Jorge Didaco, Waldemar Hepstein, Bill Kamberger, Robert Reynolds, Sulo Vatanen, and Lee Price, with additional assistance from participants on the IMDb Classic Film message board.
© 2012 Lee Price
Thanks for sharing. Always a pleasure to read.
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