Collage Work Must Be Hard Work

Yard Work is Hard Work (Jodie Mack, 2007)

This is a delightfully cute animation, using pixellation and cut-up collages to tell the story of a relationship entirely through Kimya Dawson-esque songs. Intelligent, warm-hearted and constantly inventive, this skips through its 28minutes with glee, and yet also has some nicely observed moments that are very true to [...]

Review: Sita Sings The Blues

Sita Sings The Blues (Nina Paley, 2009)
I loved this film. It’s just such an inventive and cheerful mash-up. Effortlessly combines genres, animations styles and 3 distinct storylines, and was constantly surprising, touching and funny. The dialogue in the ‘discussion’ segments felt very authentic to me (I was born in India and have grown up surrounded [...]