With Saturday being so hectic and full of cool goings on, we decided to overdo it on the Saturday and leave the Sunday completely, otherwise we run the risk of our brains and eyes becoming runny.


MEGUNICA
Megunica demonstrates the anti-consumerist and anti-materialist values of a group of down to earth street artists that tour south American countries painting their wall murals wherever they feel an area could do with livening up, regardless of what the corrupt locl police force has to say about it. The main character, Blu, actually doesn't even show his face properly on camera. Rejecting any posibilities of becoming an overnight celebrity due to his recent, 4million views strong, much talked about, wall animation.

I could be wrong, but this is one artist that people are probably gonna go crazy over, but you can guarantee he won't be selling his sketches to the TATE next week for millions. Blu stands for something else, and he feels strongly about it.





STYLE WARS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-d_9il1Iao
This feature length film can be watched in sections on youtube for anyone interested, it provides a unique insight into the emerging street culture of 1982 The Bronx, NY. What surpirsed me the most was their attitudes to life and their work, and would go as far as saying that these guys were possibly the last great art movement. What has there been since? unmade beds?

These guys get up at midnight when the trains are going away for the night, and head on down to the trainyards, where they create things, all night until the sun comes up. Then they head on down to the hardwar store where they steal any materials they need, whereby they go back to their bedrooms and practise all over their walls ready for the next evening. Free people, using "free" materials, to create art for people for free. The movement slowly died out with the city planning taking a firmer stance on it, due to public pressure from stiffs in suits complaining about seeing it on the way to work.



VARMINTS
I had high hopes for this one, and although it was very well crafted in CG, it was ultimately a bit dull and tedious. I loved the creatures moving these huge skyscraperrs clumsily knocking into each other, it was quite obviously saying something about cities and development but then it lost me at the point where he seemed to die a few times over and the glowing acorn attaches itself to a building and becomes a giant flying jellyfish...



CODSWALLOP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTM1_PtFHzA
Seen this a few times now, but the Q&A that took place before it was interesting enough to tell about. The dialogue is taken from either of the animators thoughts, or random conversations they've overhead in the street. The concept came from a film clip where a woman is watching a train going past and she can see things happening in each of the trains windows, it's also framed in a similar way. I think the clip they saw is off Pervert's guide to cinema, might have a look for that in a bit.