CEL Mates: World Of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden Of Other People’s Thoughts Tom Bond January 10, 2018 CEL Mates, Features, Independent There are certain stories that only animation can tell properly: the tale of a roomful of toys reuniting with their owner, a clownfish’s journey to find his son, or a version of Hamlet featuring lions. Now...
Memory and Trauma in Memento, Trance and Remainder Tom Bond June 28, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Memory is a difficult thing for cinema to dissect. It’s the most opaque, internal process we experience as humans, and therefore wholly unsuited to a medium as visual as film. Countless books that rely on...
Remainder – LFF Review Tom Bond October 5, 2015 Reviews Beginning with a brutal shock to the system, Remainder becomes a disquieting, paranoid thriller with a sheen of clammy body horror. Just when you worry it’s writing itself into a corner, the unnamed...
CEL Mates: World of Tomorrow Tom Bond April 8, 2015 CEL Mates, Features, Independent Don Hertzfeldt is a one-of-a-kind genius. While his contemporaries balance on the cutting-edge of animation technology or push to preserve the retro charm of hand-drawn styles, he stands proudly in a niche of...
