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RainDog

(28,784 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 04:13 PM Jan 2014

Waking Life

Watch the full film here (I can't embed from daily motion)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhalb0_waking-life_shortfilms?start=3

Preview:


wiki: Waking Life is a 2001 American animated drama film directed by Richard Linklater. The film focuses on the nature of dreams, consciousness, and existentialism.

The film was entirely rotoscoped, although it was shot using digital video of live actors with a team of artists drawing stylized lines and colors over each frame with computers, rather than being filmed and traced onto cells on a light box. The film contains several parallels to Linklater's 1991 film Slacker. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their characters from Before Sunrise in one scene.

Waking Life was the first digitally rotoscoped animated feature. Animators overlaid live action footage (shot by Linklater) with animation that roughly approximates the images actually filmed. This technique is similar in some respects to the rotoscope style of 1970s filmmaker Ralph Bakshi. Rotoscoping itself, however, was not Bakshi's invention, but that of experimental silent film maker Max Fleischer, who patented the process in 1917. A variety of artists were employed, so the feel of the movie continually changes, and gets stranger as time goes on. The result is a surreal, shifting dreamscape.
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Waking Life (Original Post) RainDog Jan 2014 OP
I watched that recently. The_Commonist Jan 2014 #1
I heard about that one RainDog Jan 2014 #2
Somebody had the idea long before him. El_Johns Jan 2014 #5
That's a great series RainDog Jan 2014 #6
Thank you so much for your contributions, RainDog... MrMickeysMom Jan 2014 #3
Thank you for your contributions too! RainDog Jan 2014 #4

The_Commonist

(2,518 posts)
1. I watched that recently.
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 05:10 PM
Jan 2014

And then I watched Slacker, which I had never seen before, for some reason.

Linklater has a new film coming out, which is an amazing idea.
It's called "Boyhood" and it was shot over the course of 12 years, following a kid as he grows up.
I hope it's as good a film as it is an idea, and he might just be the guy to pull it off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyhood_%28film%29

RainDog

(28,784 posts)
2. I heard about that one
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 05:14 PM
Jan 2014

and look forward to seeing it.

Linklater may have gotten his inspiration from the famous "Up" documentary series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series

 

El_Johns

(1,805 posts)
5. Somebody had the idea long before him.
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 11:51 PM
Jan 2014

The Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. So far the documentary has had eight episodes spanning 49 years (one episode every seven years)

In a 2005 Channel 4 programme, the series topped the list of The 50 Greatest Documentaries.[2]

The children were selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child's social class predetermines their future.

Every seven years, the director, Michael Apted, films material from those of the fourteen who choose to participate. The aim of the series is stated at the beginning of 7 Up as: "Why do we bring these children together? Because we want to get a glimpse of England in the year 2000. The shop steward and the executive of the year 2000 are now seven years old."

56 Up premiered on British TV on 14 May 2012; its release in the USA came on 4 January 2013.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Up_series_DVD.jpg

RainDog

(28,784 posts)
6. That's a great series
Sat Jan 25, 2014, 02:13 PM
Jan 2014

But Linklater is doing a fictional version of the same thing, within one family.

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
3. Thank you so much for your contributions, RainDog...
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 05:58 PM
Jan 2014

I started watching Paris Blues the other day, then had to leave it… Such good films and realms of visual art through your efforts, I've seen.

Just wanted to say, "thanks!"

RainDog

(28,784 posts)
4. Thank you for your contributions too!
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 06:01 PM
Jan 2014

DU is full of wonderful folks. I enjoy reading your comments here.

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