Computer Animation Arts

Good Books is an online-bookseller that passes all its profits onto Oxfam.   BUCK was asked to produce and direct this campaign, which splices Hunter S. Thompson -inspired visuals with imagery from Kafka's The Metamorphosis - the result is this swirling, rather nightmarish confection; it's great! Good Books - Metamorphosis from Buck on Vimeo .

Compiling them here for anyone who is interested. If you're still struggling to find something to write about for your essay then the 'Related films' and 'Analysis' sections could come in handy. Not all the films listed in the 'Related films' section are suitable but if you cast a critical eye and don't rush in blind, you will be able to find plenty of solid essay material. The Fly (1958) The Fly (1986) La Belle et la Bete The Company of Wolves The Elephant Man Splice Black Swan

Summary: Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan revolves around a New York production of the Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake that finds two ballerinas’, Nina and Lily competing to play the role of both the White and Black Swan. As Nina begins to lose herself to role she unlocks her darker side to metamorphose into the Black Swan itself. Analysis: “...there was this doppelganger, there was a black swan and a white swan, there was this werewolf story of this metamorphosis, the story of a woman who is by day a swan but at night is a half-swan/half-human—that always got me excited because I got to turn Natalie Portman into some weird creature. And all of the characters in the movie are sort of related to their counterparts in the ballet.” (Aronofsky, 2010) “...ultimately there’s a story here of a woman-child, a child trapped in a woman’s body trying to become a woman, and her sexual liberation is a big part of becoming a woman.” (Aronofsky, 2010) Aronofsky, Darren (2010) [Interview by Drew Taylor, ...

Summary: A warped retelling of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. Co-written by novelist Angela Carter and Irish director Neil Jordan, the film takes place within the dreams of a young girl. Told through a number of individual stories, the various characters and creatures create a mystical landscape full of symbolic meaning. The film tackles the theme of burgeoning female sexuality - the onset of adolescence, the end of childhood and the loss of innocence. Analysis: “Carter’s original stories, “The Werewolf,” “The Company of Wolves,” and, to a lesser extent, “Wolf-Alice,” are patched together in the script to explore issues of female sexuality and desire within a patriarchal universe, using images of the wolf and werewolf to represent the power, seduction, and threat of sexuality. Both tales and film thus infuse Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood” with psychological depth, Freudian significance, and a heighted sense of erotic menace.” (Haase, 2008:228) Haase, D. (2008) The ...

The Anatomy podcast is now available on myUCA/Anatomy/Unit Materials .  Due to continuing technical difficulties (insert expletive here!), the podcast is actually last year's recording - hence my discussion of  Black Swan  as a 'new' film and discussion of  Cat People  etc .,  but all the references are present and correct - only the jokes are different!  The podcast refers to a link to the full text of Ovid's Metamorphoses - go   here   instead. See below for some of the examples I was unable to show today, plus a liberal sprinkling of other metamorphic titbits - and some of them not for the squeamish! Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master,  Dir. Renny Harlin (1988) click for ' Debbie-into-cockroach metamorphosis ' The Metamorphosis Of Mr Samsa , Caroline Leaf (1977) The Wasp Woman , Dir. Roger Corman, 1959 Cat People , Dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1942 ...