Hungary’s contribution to bizzarro animation is incalculable, and this visual poem is one of the best animated films of the 80′s, by legendary artist Marcell Jankovics.
Mad God: Phil Tippett’s Cosmic Scaled Horror Fantasy
Here is a review I wrote last year for HorrOrigins.com of Phil Tippett's Mad God.
This review was originally published on HorrOrigins.com on 1/16/2022.
Average audiences may not recognize Phil Tippett by name, but those who do will praise him as among the leading creature effects masters of the last fifty years. Perhaps most famous for his work on Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993), he was brought to animate the dinosaurs when they were intended to be partially realized…
anytime i feel disheartened about art as a career i just think about how Jankovics Marcell became so obsessed with the concept of metamorphosis and the duty of an artist he worked on a movie for nearly 30 years and all he said after the first showing was "it was worth it."
Son of the White Mare https://bit.ly/3DGY61H Psychedelia came late to the Soviet Bloc. Marcell Jankovics’s Son of the White Mare (aka Fehérlófia) didn’t come out till 1981, at which point in the West long hair was out and short hair was in, weed had been traded for speed and nothing seemed quite as old hat as self-indulgent, soft-edged hippie-infused visuals. Way out east, however, the Communist regime remained steadfastly against anything that was soft, western, bourgeois, non-practical, non-utilitarian or non-propagandistic. With its decorative, non-logical looks, psychedelia’s message was in itself dissident and political and its counter-cultural impact was strong. On the other hand the regime did like folk art. Pop art bad, folk art good ran the mantra of … Read more