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One-A-Day: Fallen Art by Tomek Baginsky

Fallen Art is an animated short by self-tought former architecture student,  Tomek Baginski, polish director. His previous works include The Cathedral (2002) animated short posted previously. Everything happens  in military base, where soldiers with minds or  no longer wanted by army are sent to be expended. There Sergent Al,  Photographer Dr. Friedriech and mentaly lost general A atempts to create wholy different art. The highly stilised world of animation plays as yet another tool to tell the story : anomalous and grotesque style  reflects  the story being told. But at the same time its soft and rich  colour pallete and smoky  lighting adds to the appeal. As reviewer of World Wide Cinema Festival notices, it is like  director took two illustrators Dave McKean's and Bill Sienkiewicz's styles and brought a new one in this film. Example of Dave McKean Illustration :  Bill Sienkiewicz's : But there would be many other as...