{"id":15726,"date":"2014-09-15T02:06:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T01:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15726"},"modified":"2014-09-15T06:24:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T05:24:10","slug":"secret-joy-of-falling-angels-a-film-by-simon-pummell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/09\/15\/secret-joy-of-falling-angels-a-film-by-simon-pummell\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Joy of Falling Angels, a film by Simon Pummell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/14545086\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"angels.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/angels.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An animated film from 1991,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/14545086\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Secret Joy of Falling Angels<\/em><\/a> layers a variety of ink and paint effects, sketched outlines and a silhouetted bird skeleton. This creates a very different group of animated angels to those in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/09\/20\/les-jeux-des-anges-by-walerian-borowczyk\/\">Borowczyk&#8217;s <em>Les Jeux des Anges<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/02\/patrick-bokanowski-again\/\">Bokanowski&#8217;s <em>L&#8217;Ange<\/em><\/a> although taken together all three films would make for a strange and unique triple-bill. In a previous post I quoted producer Keith Griffiths enthusing about Bokanowski&#8217;s masterwork, and Griffiths happens to be the producer of Simon Pummell&#8217;s film. Pummell also offers thanks to those regular Griffiths collaborators (and fellow Bokanowski enthusiasts) the Brothers Quay. (Note: the Vimeo page has &#8220;Fallen Angels&#8221; but the title on the film is &#8220;Falling Angels&#8221;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An animated film from 1991,\u00a0Secret Joy of Falling Angels layers a variety of ink and paint effects, sketched outlines and a silhouetted bird skeleton. This creates a very different group of animated angels to those in Borowczyk&#8217;s Les Jeux des Anges and Bokanowski&#8217;s L&#8217;Ange although taken together all three films would make for a strange &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/09\/15\/secret-joy-of-falling-angels-a-film-by-simon-pummell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Secret Joy of Falling Angels, a film by Simon Pummell&#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":[52,7],"tags":[399,6452,423,6453,4056],"class_list":["post-15726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-film","tag-brothers-quay","tag-keith-griffiths","tag-patrick-bokanowski","tag-simon-pummell","tag-walerian-borowczyk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-45E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726","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=15726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}