Armadillo is a documentary film about Danish soldiers in the war in Afghanistan. Director Janus Metz speaks of Armadillo as being a documentary of ambivalence, “trying to create peace with one hand and war with the other.“ This theme of ambivalence is depicted in the documentary poster as a grenade and anatomical heart fused together. While I can’t say that it’s the best rendering of an anatomical hear that I’ve seen, it’s certainly a nice concept that differentiates from many other war movies/documentaries out there.
Diastole, created by multidisciplicary artist Nicolás Coronado, is a visual essay/teaser for an upcoming project titled “Beat.” Love the different representations of the heart.
The last time we posted Calgary-based mixed media artist, Candace Couse’s knitted anatomical work, she told us that she was finishing up a film that took the viewer inside a knitted body that is “violently disrupted by the discovery of a malignant malady. The film has finally been released to the public. Enjoy!
The body is a magnificent system. But its harmony can be interrupted, sometimes by subversive agents within. Sick uses stop motion to bring to life a knitted body in a fanciful journey through the pulsating organs and dark recesses of the human body.
I don’t know about you, but I have definitely wondered how exactly the cars in Cars were supposed to be alive, at least, in the weird half real, half not real world that is Cars. These rad rendering were done by illustrator Jake Parker and he does a much better job of articulating this bizarre thought:
I grew up in AZ and am very familiar with small towns strung along old highways. It struck a chord with me, and left a good message: Slow down, look around, and enjoy life for a moment. However, every other Pixar movie took either a living creature and anthropomorphized it (bugs, fish, monsters, rats) or in the case of Toy Story took inanimate objects and bought them to life, but did so with in the realm of our world. Cars is the only movie they’ve done where they’ve extricated the experience from our world and put it somewhere else completely. And that leads me to the one thing that didn’t sit well with me: the strange machine/flesh hybrids Pixar came up with to populate this world.
I had that exact same thought when I first saw Cars, glad I’m not the only one! I don’t recall them ever needing to eat in the first film, but this at least clarifies some of the anatomical mechanics that could be involved. Now I guess I should watch Cars 2, no doubt with this in mind.
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