Fallen Art

2004
7.6| 0h6m| en| More Info
Released: 23 September 2004 Released
Producted By: Platige Image
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Fallen Art presents the story of General A, a self-proclaimed artist. His art, however, consists of a deranged method of stop motion photography, where the individual frames of the movie are created by photographs made by Dr. Johann Friedrich, depicting the bodies of dead soldiers, pushed down by Sergeant Al from a giant springboard onto a slab of concrete.

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Kirpianuscus Or, more exactly, propaganda of war. dark, macabre - the music from Balkans as clue - , well crafted and proposing the expected provocative story of Tomek Baginski. ironic parable about war, armies, soldiers and dark sides of "innocent" delights.
jjjjjjjjjjjjj-4 I enjoyed Fallen Art more than I did Kathedra (which I would rate 9/10). Kathedra was a stunning & visually elegant film with an interesting theme (The sublimation & petrification of the individual by religion. The mindless growth of religious entities towards the abyss.) Fallen Art has a more accessible & simpler animation style, as well as being extremely funny.Fallen Art is a comedy about tragedy; the tragedy which has defined human existence since the earliest civilizations. The desire to impose order/control via the application of violence. In a word, War. Most specifically, the process of War & the State. This process leads to a macabre form of Art, which becomes the justification for further death & destruction. This process is similar to the process of producing animation (although this analogy is limited as there is a director responsible for a film/animation). It is linked & sequential. It operates on a variety of levels which obscure who is really responsible for the product. Once a step is taken, the following steps are inevitable. No one is responsible as they are just playing their parts in the complex operation. No one accepts any blame for the results. And despite the result to human life, there is enthusiasm for both the process and the ultimate result, the Art of war.Like the best Eastern European animation, there are no intelligible words in the film. And none are needed. The words, "Blah, blah, blah", perfectly capture the "reason" of the process that leads soldiers to meaningless deaths. The smiley face medals are also apt.The real brilliance of Fallen Art is in the final product of the on-screen process, the hilarious dance film created from still photos of the soldiers who are booted to their deaths from the jump tower. In the same way that societies create "Value" from the destruction of their "Enemies" via entertaining propaganda, the meaningless destruction of the soldiers here becomes mass entertainment; a music video. The process of destruction MUST continue or the deaths of those who have already been sacrificed would become meaningless. But there is no real end to the process. The music doesn't really stop. Another chorus or verse can always be added.Even the frog, the voice of external reality, can only croak to record each new death splat.
Polaris_DiB This little short operates on two levels.The first is it's humorous story, that of a bunch of soldiers--we aren't really given who they are or what they're doing there--that are shoved off of a tall diving board to their deaths, and then photographed to be sent to this fierce fat guy who is collecting them for an animation.The second is an exploration of animation itself, as it is done in very caricaturist CG but has the second level of being something of a stop-motion animation. The fat guy takes the pictures of the dead soldiers and puts them into a projector to make a very macabre dance... and nothing is funnier than watching him dance along with hundreds of dead soldiers.Could this possibly be something about the amount of death and toil that goes into making precise art? I'd like to think so, otherwise I can't really see an excuse for it, even though it is quite definitely the perfect example of morbid comedy.--PolarisDiB
dskubin It is interesting how everybody was astonished by the visualization in Katedra and in this one. And nobody dig into the story behind. But Beginsky's stories are more than just an add on to the graphics.This masterpiece tells us how some individuals can decide about life and death, and what the army really is. Soldiers are just a tool to achieve the goal of the art called WAR.While the Katedra is more the critique to the church. The man is alone and when the church shows him the 'light' he's captured forever. In my opinion Beginski tries to describe the problems in a more subtle way with great visualization and 3D graphics.