Another bizarre animation that showcases baroque Victorian imagery similar to Monty Python. It was rich with symbolism and context like old world + space journey kind of weirdness. Ok, cool Larry Jordan, that's avant-garde but I'm not sure if I like it.

Victorian woodcuts used in service of a very un-Victorian science fiction film. Similar to what Gilliam did with Monty Python and what Lewis Klahr is doing today.

Funny, eerie, mysterious, obnoxious, beautiful. I'm not as into the cutout gimmick as director Lawrence Jordan, but I still found a lot of enjoyment here. And I was surprised at the seasonally-appropriate Halloween vibes this gave off.

I watched a crummy version of this on YouTube. I'd love to see it cleaned up. Maybe the Criterion Channel can get on that?

Vaguely Carrollian, sort of terrifying. Probably not best viewed if you're red–green colour-blind.

Bumped up half a star finally seeing a restored version. What Jordan does with color often goes unmentioned but is really one of the most astounding factors of this short.

This being an absolute nightmare now but obviously meant as a joke at the time made me realize how unsettling and confusing the "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him" meme is gonna be in 50 years.

This experimental short reminded me of the Terry Gilliam animations in a lot of the Monty Python movies. Except Our Lady of the Sphere was in trichromatic red green blue and pretty serious. A bit too pretentious and dadaist for me.

Check it out here

very cool

i have no idea what's going on

Josh Peck voice: She's spherical....SPHERICAL!

I love my Lady and her Sphere

WOW I LOVE THIS

1960s YouTube poop.  Basically the equivalent of watching weird absurdist meme videos. Anyone who loves surreal memes needs this short film in their life.

Another dope short for class.

Sublime w/a great score.

My favorite on the Facets 4-DVD compilation; but I enjoyed all Jordan's fluttery, wunderkammer collages.

"Edmonds said in 2008 that he is constantly accompanied by two melon-sized "spiritual energy" balls, which appear over his shoulders and which he believes to be the spirits of his dead parents. "Orbs are little bundles of positive energy and they think they can move between 500 and 1,000 miles per hour," according to Edmonds. "They look like little round planets but they come in all shapes and sizes." He has asserted that the orbs appear only on digital photographs.
- Noel Edmonds' Wikipedia page

All hail the orb. Very strong late 60s psychedelic short that takes Victorian cutouts into the more abstract territory of Dali clocks and Freemason symbolism. The bright RGB colour scheme is really to my taste and the disruptive editing keeps the short completely arrhythmic, its restlessness kept me attentive. It's nice to see Méliès and Reiniger as primacy influences yet the result is something singular, circles and colours given real independence.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this was probably my favorite of the American Avant-Garde film collection. It's basically a Joseph Cornell collage box come to life, with lots of Victorian images dancing around to odd music and interrupted periodically by blasts of pure noise. The result is absolutely mesmerizing in it's strangeness and no matter how weird it gets, it keeps getting weirder as it progresses. Hard to describe in a way that does this justice. If you get turned on by those Terry Gilliam animations in old Monty Python episodes, this is the 'On Acid' version.

https://youtu.be/owf3UXKUDv4

lit

very cool

i have no idea what's going on

I'd watch this while on weed lmfao

Surreal, experimental animation using collage - predates Burton and Monty Python.

Josh Peck voice: She's spherical....SPHERICAL!

the prettiest fever dream