#oiaf2014

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"Marcus McGhee, a school teacher in Hartford Connecticut, tells the story of when his car was stolen and the police did not help him.  the animation is a combination of hand-drawn, pencil on paper, paint and digital paint and composite. " One of my favourites that was shown at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2014

"Deviant behaviour forms the core of the programme’s centrepiece film, The Pride of Strathmoor (Einar Baldvin, USA/Iceland), which is one of the three aforementioned standouts of the programme. Strathmoor is simply a masterful feat of animation as director Einar Baldvin envisions a gothic interpretation of excerpts from the journal of a pastor from Strathmoor, Georgia, who ruminates on the perceived decay of the American South. This visually stunning tragedy feels like a horror film brought to life as the pastor’s racist ranting paints a grotesque portrait of the South. This surreal film becomes more nightmarish as it reaches its climax. Strathmoor builds to a point of dizzying madness when it combines the pastor’s haunting narration with hypnotically frantic flashes of light. (The film includes a disclaimer that it might invite seizures.) Baldvin makes The Pride of Strathmoor an utterly startling experience by making the sepia-tinted canvas (aided by intuitive use of coffee stains) look like a page of history ripped from the archives, pulled out from the darkness and exposed to the light like a vampire in its final hour. Strathmoor is a fantastic film!"