Deadsy
A graphic interpretation of a man's fascination with weaponry and the sexual power of military aggression, via the story of the Grim Reaper acquiring additional weaponry after undergoing a sex change. Using a combination of live action, laser xerography, hand rendering, and model animation, the film is a companion piece to another Anderson / Hoban collaboration, Door, collectively entitled Deadtime Stories For Big Folk.
CinemaSerf@Geronimo1967
There is something of the macabre meets “Max Headroom” in this lava lamp of an animation. It tell us the story of the aptly named “Deadsy” who starts off with bugs and flies before his killing spree grows to include more substantial vertebrates - all while he adopts the guise of a sexually charged rock god. Clearly an adrenalin junkie, he soon finds that even that isn’t fulfilling enough and so he decides to get some new sex thingies and quite physically flip his vinyl. I did like the aggression pent up in this almost demonic yet curiously unthreatening mix of the hand-drawn, what looked like a little bit of stop-motion and electrically charged xerographic imagery that is enigmatically ambiguous and certainly innovative. Well worth five minutes, I’d say.