{"id":13723,"date":"2013-05-01T02:41:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13723"},"modified":"2013-05-01T02:41:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:41:04","slug":"le-labyrinthe-and-coeur-de-secours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/05\/01\/le-labyrinthe-and-coeur-de-secours\/","title":{"rendered":"Le labyrinthe and Coeur de secours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.com\/film\/kamler_labyrinthe.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kamler1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kamler1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Le labyrinthe (1969).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Among the new arrivals at Ubuweb there&#8217;s the very welcome addition of <a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.com\/film\/kamler.html\" target=\"_blank\">more animated films by Polish director Piotr Kamler<\/a>. Kamler&#8217;s incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/12\/18\/chronopolis-by-piotr-kamler\/\"><em>Chronopolis<\/em><\/a> (1982) was posted there late last year, a longer work than these shorter films which are nonetheless fascinating in themselves. For a start they show the range of Kamler&#8217;s animation which differs radically from film to film. <em>Le labyrinthe<\/em> is the kind of thing SF artist Richard Powers might have made had he been offered an animation commission: a human figure paces through increasingly threatening corridors and empty spaces until the winged creatures that haunt the zone bear down on him. <em>Coeur de secours<\/em> is more a sequence of events than anything that might be easily summarised; I&#8217;d seen this one years ago on Channel 4 but didn&#8217;t remember a thing about it. <em>Chronopolis<\/em> was notable for its electronic score by Luc Ferrari, and both the earlier films have similar soundtracks created by Bernard Parmegiani and Francois Bayle respectively. All these films, <em>Chronopolis<\/em> included, are collected on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heeza.fr\/en\/dvd-animation\/829-dvd-piotr-kamler.html\" target=\"_blank\">a recent DVD<\/a> which I&#8217;ll definitely be buying. Kamler&#8217;s work, like that of Patrick Bokanowski and the Quay Brothers, goes places that films with much larger budgets can never reach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.com\/film\/kamler_coeur.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kamler2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kamler2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Coeur de secours (1973).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/12\/18\/chronopolis-by-piotr-kamler\/\">Chronopolis by Piotr Kamler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le labyrinthe (1969). Among the new arrivals at Ubuweb there&#8217;s the very welcome addition of more animated films by Polish director Piotr Kamler. Kamler&#8217;s incredible Chronopolis (1982) was posted there late last year, a longer work than these shorter films which are nonetheless fascinating in themselves. For a start they show the range of Kamler&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/05\/01\/le-labyrinthe-and-coeur-de-secours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Le labyrinthe and Coeur de secours&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,29,7,3],"tags":[4726,4727,4404,423,4403,2559,119],"class_list":["post-13723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","tag-bernard-parmegiani","tag-francois-bayle","tag-luc-ferrari","tag-patrick-bokanowski","tag-piotr-kamler","tag-richard-powers","tag-ubuweb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3zl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}