Monday 5 March 2018

The Spider Elephant



WATCH and LISTEN.  It's bloody brilliant.  Animation by Piotr Kamler, music by Bernard Parmegiani.  1967.

Polish animator Kamler worked in Paris with Service de la Recherche ORTF - a centre for experimentation in the fields of TV and radio, headed by Pierre Schaeffer and employing the likes of Janis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari and Bernard Parmegiani.

There's a DVD which collects all of his films [so far - I think he's still about and doing stuff though it's hard to find anything online]: 'Piotr Kamler, à la recherche du temps'

5 comments:

  1. cor - love the visuals and the sonix

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  2. looks like a bit chunk of Kamler work is in this youtube clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNPfT06MUkU

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  3. BIG chunk i mean to write

    actually there's a load of animations by Kamler on YTube, all put up by some kind of organisation called Shadoks & Co

    and often with Parmegiani soundtracks

    which is apt because reviewing a Bernard P box set I concluded that the closest thing to his musical process was animation

    in fact i think he started out doing animations before the music

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  4. Excellent, I had no idea about BP's art background - yeah, the photocollage thing fits nicely. He uses a lot of "found sounds", doesn't he?

    The name "Shadoks & Co" is interesting - it's a ref to a French cartoon series of the '60s with an avant garde soundtrack (recently re-released). I was thinking of doing a quick post about it.

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