Pink Swine!
Pink Swine!
| 01 January 1962 (USA)
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One of Lawrence Jordan's earliest animated films, PINK SWINE is an energetic and playful mix of various animation styles. Described as "an anti-art dada collage film," this free-form short presents cut-out images animated across old photos (a style picked up by Terry Gilliam a few years later) and found objects that dance to the beat of the rock-and-roll soundtrack. He produced this short during a summer spent with Joseph Cornell and Jordan edited the film entirely in camera, making the upbeat visual rhythm of this delightful lark even more impressive. –Sean Axmaker

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Michael_Elliott

Pink Swine! (1962) *** (out of 4) Fun mix of stop-motion as well as cut-out animation from director Larry Jordan with the song "I Saw Her Standing There" being played in the background. This is a pretty difficult film to describe as there's really not any plot but instead there are just a bunch of images edited together to mix with the song. The stop-motion stuff was quite nice as was the way the director would take a photo and film it as if it were moving but the really cool stuff happens with the cut-out animation, which is basically a bunch of objects cut out of paper and we see them move around. There's certainly nothing too ground-breaking here but fans of the bizarre should enjoy it.

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