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TEKKONKINKREET Director, MICHAEL ARIAS, arrives at the MoMA theatre for the Sunday
\nApril 29th, 2007 – premiere screening. that’s ASHER WEINTRAUB catching a ride through the streets of midtown Manhattan. Asher is the son of the TEKKONKINKREET screenwriter, ANTHONY WEINTRAUB.
\nPhoto: Nancy Smith<\/p>\n
. . a few new miscellaneous notes on the film.<\/p>\n
1. apparently the film will<\/em> have a limited engagement here in New York in mid-July.<\/p>\n 2. the DVD was supposed to be coming out in the Fall, but apparently got moved forward to June.<\/p>\n 3. when we threw a few questions at him, while taking the photo, Arias told us, that no<\/em> NECKFACE wasn’t a conscious inspiration for the gangster clan caricatures – but he did say that – quote – . . . “NECKFACE . . is ALL<\/em> over Japan.”<\/p>\n 4. the movie artwork is inspired (in part) by UKIYE-O (18th C Japanese woodblock prints) – and Arias pointed out that the line drawing details in the film are done in brown ink<\/em>, as opposed to black ink – and that, in turn, helps create the overall ‘tone’ of flatness – and sure enough in the 2nd viewing, we are able to catch the beautiful brown ink line work. we came away from the first viewing, actually thinking there was no<\/em> shading in the film – but there is<\/em> – watch out for it – it’s just so subtly done. so non-Western hemisphere. .<\/p>\n 5. TEKKONKINKREET is true animation – over 80,000 cells were produced !<\/p>\n 6. The remarkable sound design, an animated ‘sound’ experience in itself, was done by – MITCH OSIAS. <\/p>\n 7. the background technique that was used is called “perspective mapping” as opposed to “multiplane camera work” – and its best described as parts or elements of the background come forward – like parts of a puzzle – that suddenly become individually empowered as 3D pieces. check out the “5 o’clock” squeeze play on the rooftops in the beginning of the film.<\/p>\n 8. there’s also a few “hommages” in the movie, here’s just a few: – you can see a nod to DISNEY , DUMBO the ELEPHANT, . . . somehow there are a lot of animated elephants worked into this Japanese urban gangsta narrative; some of the mayhem is reminiscent of the really over-the-top scary scenes in BATMAN I, – & – I thought I saw a red & white graphic in the distance, a sign in the skyscape that was a “rhino” – ala MARC ECKO ? 9. on the term – anime: MICHAEL ARIAS writes: ” ‘Anime’ is something of an artifical construct TEKKONKINKREET Director, MICHAEL ARIAS, arrives at the MoMA theatre for the Sunday April 29th, 2007 – premiere screening. that’s ASHER WEINTRAUB catching a ride through the streets of midtown Manhattan. Asher is the son of the TEKKONKINKREET screenwriter, ANTHONY WEINTRAUB. Photo: Nancy Smith . . a few new miscellaneous notes on the film. 1. apparently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n. . . there’s even a funny take-off on the eaten apple “APPLE” logo – the ‘STOP’ or, is it a ‘PLANT’\/RE-NEW’ sign ? . . . in fact, the cityscape graphics: including billboards, banners & signs that fly by continuously, are a total rush. <\/p>\n
\noutside of Japan. In Japan when we say ‘anime’ we mean simply ‘animation’. We might be specific and say ‘Disney anime’ or ‘Ghibli anime’ or ‘children’s anime’, but it’s a pretty general term and not<\/em> specific to Japanese output . . . so by ‘anime’ do we really mean ‘Japanese animation’ (that is, ‘animation from Japan’)? . . . There’s such a great variety of animation coming from Japan it seems a disservice to try and group it all together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"