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wiki: Waking Life is a 2001 American animated drama film directed by Richard Linklater. The film focuses on the nature of dreams, consciousness, and existentialism.
The film was entirely rotoscoped, although it was shot using digital video of live actors with a team of artists drawing stylized lines and colors over each frame with computers, rather than being filmed and traced onto cells on a light box. The film contains several parallels to Linklater's 1991 film Slacker. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their characters from Before Sunrise in one scene.
Waking Life was the first digitally rotoscoped animated feature. Animators overlaid live action footage (shot by Linklater) with animation that roughly approximates the images actually filmed. This technique is similar in some respects to the rotoscope style of 1970s filmmaker Ralph Bakshi. Rotoscoping itself, however, was not Bakshi's invention, but that of experimental silent film maker Max Fleischer, who patented the process in 1917. A variety of artists were employed, so the feel of the movie continually changes, and gets stranger as time goes on. The result is a surreal, shifting dreamscape.
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)And then I watched Slacker, which I had never seen before, for some reason.
Linklater has a new film coming out, which is an amazing idea.
It's called "Boyhood" and it was shot over the course of 12 years, following a kid as he grows up.
I hope it's as good a film as it is an idea, and he might just be the guy to pull it off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyhood_%28film%29
RainDog
(28,784 posts)and look forward to seeing it.
Linklater may have gotten his inspiration from the famous "Up" documentary series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series
El_Johns
(1,805 posts)The Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. So far the documentary has had eight episodes spanning 49 years (one episode every seven years)
In a 2005 Channel 4 programme, the series topped the list of The 50 Greatest Documentaries.[2]
The children were selected to represent the range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child's social class predetermines their future.
Every seven years, the director, Michael Apted, films material from those of the fourteen who choose to participate. The aim of the series is stated at the beginning of 7 Up as: "Why do we bring these children together? Because we want to get a glimpse of England in the year 2000. The shop steward and the executive of the year 2000 are now seven years old."
56 Up premiered on British TV on 14 May 2012; its release in the USA came on 4 January 2013.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Up_series_DVD.jpg
RainDog
(28,784 posts)But Linklater is doing a fictional version of the same thing, within one family.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I started watching Paris Blues the other day, then had to leave it
Such good films and realms of visual art through your efforts, I've seen.
Just wanted to say, "thanks!"
RainDog
(28,784 posts)DU is full of wonderful folks. I enjoy reading your comments here.