Erodium Thunk is a 2018
Canadian
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collage animated short by Winston Hacking, who is known for making
music videos
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for such artists as
Flying Lotus
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,
Washed Out
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and
Animal Collective
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.
Synopsis
Named after the 1956
Michael Snow
Michael James Aleck Snow (December 10, 1928 – January 5, 2023) was a Canadian artist who worked in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music. His best-known films are ''Wavelength'' (1967) and '' La Rég ...
film
A to Z', a barrage of hyperlinked TV commercials and magazine ads (with doses of nostalgia and satire) that's also a comedic social commentary on late consumer capitalism.
Accolades
At the 2019
Ottawa International Animation Festival
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, the film won two awards - one in the Best Technique category for "its intelligent arrangement of source material and fascinating transitions" and the latter in the Non-Narrative Animation category stating that:
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"with its compelling balance of control and chance, this ever-morphing collage just kept surprising us".
See also
*Vaporwave
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*Criticism of capitalism
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*Independent animation
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United States
In America, working independent
animators included Mary Ellen Bute ...
References
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External links
''Erodium Thunk'' on Hacking's official YouTube channelOfficial website''Erodium Thunk'' at IMDb
Canadian collage films
Collage television
2018 films
Canadian animated short films
2018 animated short films