The Blue-Eyed Girl, 1984 - about a Bogatyr Nikita who saves a bride and Rus from a Serpent Gorynych. It reminds me a lot of Sleeping Beauty (the Disney one) altho this one feels older than the Disney one despite post-dating it. The animation is done in the style of Palekh painting. Palekh paintings are a traditional Russian folk art form that are miniature tempera paintings on lacquered, black papier-maché. They often depict fairy tales (my favorite 😊). Directed by Ivan Aksenchuk who also did the Cinderella Short from 1979 (I did an edit many posts back but you can see the clear similarities with the dress change). What’s not shown here is he defeats the dragon with help from all the animals he helped to save. He saved a deer and a beaver and a baby bird and they all three help him afterwards. The birds cast a net to catch him, the deer’s father gives him the spear to kill the dragon. And the beavers help him out of the web. 🥹 The music is by Julee Cruise (thanks Twin Peaks!) called “Into the Night.” Edit by @wanyizee me :)
Poyga and the Fox, 1978 - a fairy tale about how a fox helped a hunter named Poyga win the heart of his beloved and fight off foreign conquerors. Song is “Боже, Боже, разве я не ангел” (“God, God, am I not an angel”) by Elena Frolova about transcendence and self-perception admist suffering. It yearns to find meaning in the otherworldly despite human fragility. And well, u know I love to yearn.
Director: Natalya Golovanova
Writer: Vladimir Golovanov
Art Director: Max Zherebchevsky
Artists: Irina Troyanova, Dmitry Anpilov, Anna Atamanova, Boris Karavaev, Sergei Marakasov
Animators: Vladimir Palchikov, Vladimir Zarubin, Natalia Barkovskaya, L. Ryabinina, Tatiana Fadeyeva, Violetta Kolesnikova, Alexander Mazaev, Anatoly Abarenov
Edit me @wanyizee
Got some BTS film back today from the first shoot I creative directed for Briogeo 𓂃 ོ☼𓂃 ☀︎ ᨒ ོ ☼ I’ll post published work later. But it’s so nice to develop a roll and totally forget what was shot
The Riddle of the Sphinx 1985 (Zagadka sfinksa)directed by
Vladimir Pekar, Writers: Vladimir PekarAleksandr Timofeevskiy
I watched this several times and I THINK it means, no matter what trials and tribulation, pharaoh or no pharaoh you’re born a human and die one. The movies based off of ancient Egyptian Frescoes (tomb paintings) and “the book of dreams.” Meant to make the paintings come to life. No matter how much knowledge you fight a dragon for, you go to the Solar Barque, the old man in the boat that takes you cross the underworld back to the gods. I found it visually engaging but non-linear. Which is fine. Art doesn’t have to have full extended meaning. Song here is Ani Williams “House of Horus.”
Satiemania, 1978 directed by Zdenko Gašparović and produced by the Zagreb Film studio in Yugoslavia. I was obsessed with Erik Satie as a teen (and the name Erik - hello Phantom) and thought his Gnossiennes were simple, haunting, and the best thing ever. Sometimes I craved a swell but listening back to this 2012 interpretation of his piece by Arthur H Feist @arthurhofficiel it still slaps. This animation is wordless, strange, beautiful, impressionistic, sensual, satirical of modern life. I edited it to the pieces that spoke to me. But reco watching the whole thing on YouTube. Happy New Year!
Violin’s the vibe. @niccolo.gobelins Edit of NICCOLO from GOBELINS 2025🎻 Directors: Clémentine DI PRIZIO, David FLORIAN, Axelle GRANET, Sirui LIU, Hugo MICHALET, Njolai PACHOMIUS
@clem.dpz@grnt_a_@artugolini_hugo_michalet@deusartz@daveed.flo@three_4b
Watch the whole thing at: https://youtu.be/O515YeHQhYE?si=kXcA7UE20M387Yw5
Music used here is: Csárdás: Csardas by Vittorio Monti, Robert Koenig, Si-Qing Lu (tagged)
Edit by moi/ happy thanksgiving
Posts from @sensestale 🖋️ The second is a split from Portrait of a Lady on Fire with Oprheus and Eurydice by Frederic Leighton. They mirror a shared paradox: the above knows it’s the last time, the below does not. The myth says don’t look or you’ll lose her. The film says look, even if you do.
Anyway. There are others. But I feel they explain themselves. Just as the second ones do.
The Tale of Moonlight, 1968 - a kitten lives with a kind doctor, and one day he breaks his lamp. Thinking the moon is a lamp and he can right his wrong, the cat goes in search of the light in the moon. 😭 cry face I’m MOVED. It’s like when tinker bell’s dust can make you fly, but the moon dust can light up your night. 🌙🌑✨💫🐈⬛ music is “epilogue” from The Theory of Everything by Jóhann Jóhannsson, directed by Irina Gurvich and written by Nina Gernet and Irina Gurvich, and edit by moi. Watchable on YouTube under the same name search.
Two in one week, I’m into it. It’s called “The Mountain Master” (1978) but it’s about The Mistress of Copper Mountain (Pavel Bazhov‘s fairy tale). A gifted stonecutter works with malachite in the Ural Mountains, but he’s dissatisfied with his dreams of making the perfect stone flower. Suddenly the Mistress appears—she’s powerful and beautiful and otherworldly. She’s recognized his talent and offers him a chance to enter her world. He follows her to her underground kingdom (omg phantom flipped, my dream!). His mortal world fiancé, Katya, runs to retrieve (or save) him, and he comes back with her. Well, in THIS RENDITION he goes back with her to “normal, human” life. In the original, the Mistress shows him the perfect flower and he becomes obsessed, and stays with her, becoming part of her magical realm. It’s an allegory for the artist’s struggle for perfection, the *ideal*, vs the real world of imperfections and compromises. Choosing this world means accepting some dreams stay unrealized. But with it comes grounded love, community, a good, imperfect life. What would you choose:
