Tag: Peter Foldes

Animation: LA FAIM (Hunger)

La Faim (Hunger) is the Impressively Repulsive 1973 Animated Short Film Directed by Peter Foldes, and Produced by the National Film Board of Canada. La Faim has the Unique Distinction of Being one of the FIRST Computer Animated Films, and it took a Year and a Half to Make. The Director Peter Foldes collaborated with he National Research Council’s Division of Radio and Electrical Engineerings’ Data Systems Group, who Decided to Develop a Computer Animation Application in 1969.

La Faim is a Grotesque, Cruel, Violent, and Highly Effective Story Told Without Words in a Bold Speechless Narrative. The Film is a Grave Morality Tale about Greed, Gluttony, and Consumerism in Contemporary Society. The Film’s Main Character an Aggressively Self-Indulgent Business Man with a Voracious Appetite in a World Plagued by Hunger and Poverty.

The Man starts by Eating only a Minor Amount to begin with, but soon He’s Eating More and More He’s simply Never Satisfied. This of course Inevitably leads to a VIOLENT AND NAUSEATING Transformation as the Man is Devoured by His Own Increasing Greediness. Eventually in The End the Greedy Overindulgent Businessman is consumed by his own Greed, and then He Himself is Eaten by the Starving Masses.

La Faim begs the Question “Who Needs Ethic When You Have Everything You Need or Want at Your Finger Tips?”

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Presented By Les Sober

Abominable Animations: A SHORT VISION (BFI 1956)

In this Installment of Abominable Animations FYB is Delighted to Bring You  Controversial, Gory, and Disturbing Anti Nuclear Animated British Film A Short Vision. The Film was Written and Directed by Joan and Peter Foldes in 1956, and was Inspired by one of Peter’s Poems. A Short Vision Depicts the Destruction of the Earth, and  the Brutal Demise of Humanity at the Hands of a Menacing Nuclear Bomb (Referred Only as It in the Film).

It all started when in 1952, the First Successful Detonation of a Hydrogen Bomb that was over 450 times as Powerful as the Bomb America Dropped on Nagasaki in World War 2. This Horrific Potential for Destruction Terrified Peter and They Two began working on a Short Cartoon in Their Kitchen, and in 1956 A Short Vision was Aired on the Popular American Television Talk Show The Ed Sullivan Show.

            

To His Credit Sullivan tried to Prepare the Audience for the Horror of the Film, But His Introduction Fell Short of Warning Viewers that They were about to watch an Interpretation of a Nuclear Holocaust, complete with Bloody, Melting Faces:

“Just last week you read about the H-bomb being dropped. Now two great English Writers, two very imaginative writers-I’m gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this ’cause it’s a fantasy, the whole thing is animated-but two English writers, Joan and Peter Foldes, wrote a thing which they called A Short Vision in which they wondered what might happen to the animal population of the world if an H-Bamb were dropped. It’s produced by George K. Authur and I’d like you to see it. It is grim, but I think we can all stand it to realize that in war there is no winner.”

A Short Vision garnered a great deal of Praise from Audiences and Critics, many were Angry and Disturbed by such Graphic Depictions of the Nuclear Apocalypse. Undeterred by the Backlash, Foldes continued Producing Groundbreaking, Socially Conscious Animation throughout His Career.

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  Presented By Les Sober