Fallen Art- Tomek Baginski

This animation was very bizarre. The characters were designed to be unusual misshaped caricatures, usually distorted in some grotesque manner. It shows a man assembling an animation comprised of images of soldiers who have fallen to their death, rendered to appear to be dancing. This walks an interesting line of morbidity and humor, creating a strange and silly film from the images of corpses. It calls to mind the question of how many soldiers were tossed to make the film, what is the purpose of the film, ad who is the man assembling it. None of these questions are answered, but it instead ends with the cycle being repeated again, as if the process will go on into infinity.
The machine that was being used to create the animation bears some small resemblance to the Multi-Plane Camera system created by Disney Studios in the 30's. There seem to be an interesting amount of self-referential material, the whole animation revolving around the idea of an animation. Perhaps its a reference to the blood sweat and tears that go into creating a small work like this. The film that the man is creating is short and nothing out of the ordinary, similar the animation itself.