{"id":6570,"date":"2009-12-30T02:59:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T01:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2009-12-30T05:40:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T04:40:57","slug":"autobahn-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/12\/30\/autobahn-animated\/","title":{"rendered":"Autobahn animated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The D\u00fcsseldorf maestros are treated to some animated illustration in this 1979 film by Roger Mainwood<\/a> which takes Kraftwerk’s Autobahn<\/em> as its soundtrack. Mark at Strange Attractor<\/a> provided the tip and he compares the animation style to Ren\u00e9 Laloux and Roland Topor’s Fantastic Planet<\/em><\/a> (1973). The purple humanoid floating through surreal landscapes is certainly reminiscent of Laloux’s film, but Autobahn<\/em> also reminds me of Bruno Bozzetto’s Allegro non troppo<\/em><\/a> (1977) and, given that Mainwood’s animation comes a couple of years later, it may well have been inspired by it. Bozzetto’s film is a feature-length “adult” response to Walt Disney’s Fantasia<\/em><\/a> which takes the Fantasia<\/em> format\u2014well-known classical themes illustrated by animated sequences\u2014but does so in a slightly more grotesque or risqu\u00e9 fashion. Much of Bozzetto’s film seems less daring today than it was in 1977 but the best sequence still works well and happens to be as science fictional as Mainwood’s Autobahn<\/em>, an entire cycle of planetary evolution set to Ravel’s Bolero<\/em>. Follow the links below.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Roger Mainwood’s Autobahn<\/em> pt. 1<\/a> | pt. 2<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ravel’s Bolero<\/em> from Allegro non troppo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The D\u00fcsseldorf maestros are treated to some animated illustration in this 1979 film by Roger Mainwood which takes Kraftwerk’s Autobahn as its soundtrack. Mark at Strange Attractor provided the tip and he compares the animation style to Ren\u00e9 Laloux and Roland Topor’s Fantastic Planet (1973). The purple humanoid floating through surreal landscapes is certainly reminiscent … Continue reading “Autobahn animated”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,29,7,3,20],"tags":[897,122,646,895,894,896,98,898],"class_list":["post-6570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-science-fiction","tag-bruno-bozzetto","tag-kraftwerk","tag-maurice-ravel","tag-rene-laloux","tag-roger-mainwood","tag-roland-topor","tag-strange-attractor","tag-walt-disney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1HY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570","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=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}