Hopital Brut
>05/01/2025
Hi everyone and happy new year!! It's been a while since I last updated this website cause you know, mental health, life and other interests got in the way.
But I'm trying to learn how to get things done, and to stop endless procrastination (like learning everything about a pratique to feel valid and ending up doing nothing) so i'll keep trying to give updates on this website, especially cause it motivate me watching cool things.
Every year since I began watching movies I gave myself the goal to watch a hundred feature-length films. But even if I manage that, I'm always ten movies behind on the last week of december. This year was no exception, so I ended up watching seven in two days, it's kinda the tradition. I've seen many great things, like Terror Toons 1-3 but I'll talk more about them when I'll finally watch the fourth one.
The movie I will talk about this time is Hopital Brut, released in 1999 by the French collective Le Dernier Cri, which is, I think, firstly a comic book artist group. It's an animated work in mixed medias created by a lot of different artists, so their is a lot of difference in art style depending on the section, with paper puppets, claymation and actors in full monster costume.
It's brutal and chaotic, a thousand things are always happening at the same time like loud noises and a narration you can't even hear over the noise music, coupled with accelerated, overcutted footage that sometimes feel almost subliminal. I ended up the viewing exhausted, with the feeling I'd just watch something that'll change what I'll be seeking in art starting now.
It's been a few month that I keeped an eye on this collective now, and after viewing this movie, I ended up buying four books from them. I can't wait to read them, especially FOTOSHOCK, which is a exhibition catalog on photocollage, the style remind me a lot of gore noise album covers. That's it for today, I'll see you next time to talk about Terror Toons, or a Kaiju movie.
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Genocyber
>20/10/2024
This month I had fixed myself the goal of watching horror animes! After my run of Soultaker, I was a bit disapointed, even if the anime is pretty good with it's fantastic artistic direction and a dreamlike storytelling, because the last two episodes were rushed and the story kinda fell flat for me. But the thing that trully left me unsatisfied was that it's not really a horror anime.
That's why I turned to OVA's, cause there wasn't a lot of horror anime series which made me curious.
And so I chosed Genocyber to start things, I watched the five episodes in the course of three days (I'm a bit slow with animes).
The story is divided in three parts :
-The first episode (45m) which is about the backstory of the main character
-The seconde and third episodes (20m each) which are taking place behind closed door on a frigate.
-And finally the last two episodes (30m each) which are about a totalitarian city who's under an escalation of violence.
I really liked each part of the anime! They are really distinct, maybe too much for some people, but I enjoyed this style of narration, it felt like someone showing you a nightmare they had.
I'll remember the designs of the creatures and the eerie atmosphere of the town in the last two episodes.
The boat part felt a bit weaker to me, but behind closed door stories always work on me.
It's an anime I will forgot the details quickly, but I'll keep with me the weird overall plot and I feel like I'll rewatch it soon!
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