About Loony Tunes

Loony Tunes is a night which screens cult/unusual/odd/experimental animation shorts and features and plays odd exotica/playful electronica/leftfield etc music. Submissions from animators are most welcome - get in touch!

It's a regular event - running on the 3rd Wednesday of every month. (It originally ran from 2005-2006 in the Horse Bazaar, Melbourne City). The re-opening night is Wednesday June 27th 2k7 - 8pm-11pm at the The North Bazaar in Northcote!

The emphasis is on screening shorts + one feature length animation is usually shown each event.

Many of the animations have their soundtrack complemented/replaced by DJ Delay and guests. (How about some Messer Chups with Norman Mclaren??)

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The Animation Shown

Stop motion, claymation, CGI, cell, machinimation, flash etc... the odd, unusual, damn clever, abstract, rare, weird etc is what ya get.

A short list of faved producers includes....

Jan Svankmaer, Bill Plympton, Taruto Fuyama, Don Hertzfeldt, Norman Mclaren, Osvaldo Cavandoli, Osamu Tezuka, Terry Gilliam, Ishu Patel, Lotte Reiniger, W+K Tokyolab..... and so on. I'm sure you get the picture ;)

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The Music / Soundtrack

Music is an equally important component to Loony Tunes. Most of the animation screened is recontextualised by the DJ (Delay & guests) providing an alternate soundtrack. This is so because Delay likes messing with the meaning. There's no disrespect to the original soundtrack (if one exists) which might find itself in the mix anyway :)

.......eg Ennio Morricone's Spaghetti Western soundtrack over the fight scene in "The Adventures Of Prince Achmed"......

Sound from Morricone, Tipsy, Atom Heart, Exotica, Messer Chups, Can, Bernd Friedman, BBC Radio Workshop, Raymond Scott, Bisk, Negativland, Arthur Lyman, Nurse With Wound, Maurizio, Antediluvian Rockinghorse, Beam Up, Oleg Kostrow, Take Rodriguez, Tribal Circus, Senor Coconut, A Certain Frank, People Like Us, The Rip Off Artist, Evolution Control Committee etc.

Click below for an example mix

Thoroughly Animated

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Next Event

Loony Tunes is screening a best of at Time Capsules on Feb 29th '08!
More details about the programme here soon!

Need more info? Email here!

Loony Tunes thanks the Melbourne International Animation Festival for their past assistance. All MIAF info here

Past Programs

Program September 19th 07

Focus is less on Delay rescoring animation & more on different music + animation relationships. We have animation:

** Hifana release albums of rather crazy cut & paste hiphop electro glitch pop in a way only Japanese people can. They release their albums with an accompanying DVD of amazing quality animation+cut up video. W+K Tokyolab is the production house (remember the Toyota diesel animated ad?). It's great! A fair chunk of their Channel H DVD will be shown.
It's on first. get there at 8PM!

** Visions of Frank is a comic by Jim Woodring . They're amazingly surreal and feature a small number of main characters including a couple of "house-pets", a devil like creature and Frank. It's weird. Will be screening a half dozen animated versions of his stories done by "Japan's most audacious animators"! (Taruto Fuyama, art unit COCOA, Masaki Naito, Kanako Kawaguchi, Naomi Nagata, Tamapro/Drop). Several tracks were specially commissioned for the resulting DVD (which also has alternate soundtracks - keeping with Loony Tunes' theme). A must-see!

** Ez3kiel are a French ElectroDub/jungle/rock/classical band who also produce accompanying DVDs to their albums. The digital animations (made in house!) are very advanced and quite lyrical. The DVDs themselves have incredibly imaginative and inventive interaction and intricacy (alliteration totally unintentional) akin to a mechanical faberge egg.

** Norman Maclaren is one of the more famous pioneers of animation (with powerful messages too) who has influenced people as wide ranging as Pablo Picasso & George Lucas. The National Film Board Of Canada commissioned French DVJ Oof to rescore McLaren films for the Pompidou Center with a dancefloor edge. You'll see a 45 minute sample of the results.

** Sun Ra & Dumbo: (Quoting Enjin "In 1941 Disney released Dumbo, an animation I didn't get to see until much later during my childhood in the 80s. The most memorable scene for me was the Pink Elephants sequence. Fast forward to my early adulthood of about 20 when I immersed myself in Sun Ra and his Arkestra, who just happened to make their own rendition of the "Pink Elephant song" And so today, while feeling a bit nostalgic, I synched the Pink Elephant animation from the original Dumbo movie with Sun Ra's music version. It gives it a much different feel than the original song" You'll see this gem.

** Mr.Scruff's music is animated cutely and very Mancunian like by Andy Carthy. Screening 2 of these tonight. Get your meat pies ready.

** Kloma give us 4 animated music tracks done in a Mclaren style with today's technology.

** Finally, the program is rounded off with Japanese animator Ukawa's abstract & experimental work 'Scanning of Modulations'. Original music by the likes of Merzbow, Nerve Net Noise, Otomo Yoshide etc. This one'll be rescored by Delay.

Program August 15th 07

Phantasmagorie and – Emile Cohl 1908
Lapis – James Whitney 1966
Game With Stones – Jan Svankmajer 1965
Jabberwocky – Jan Svankmajer 1971
Shadowland – Anthony Lucas 1988
Day Off the Dead – Lee Lanier / Jeffrey Dates 2004
Evo – Chris Gavin 2006
Life - Mo Willems and Company 2003
Elephant’s Dream – Bassam Kurdali 2007
Marvellous Keen Looney Bin – Lizzie Akana 2006
Cats Cradle - Paul Driessen 1974
Destino – Salvador Dali and Walt Disney 1952
Operation X-70 – Raoul Servais 1971
Reverie Sans Frontieres – Luxun Tan 2004
Bathtime in Clerkenwell – Alex Budovsky 2003
Jesse (video for Scott Walkers “Drift”) – Grahame Wood 2006
Ah Pook is Here – Philip Hunt 1994
Mountains of Madness – Michael Boas 2006
Ryleh - Mikael Genachte-Le Bail 2003
The Amazing Screw-on Head – Chris Prynowski 2006
Prometheus Garden – Bruce Bickford 1987

MEDIA TYPE AND DURATION

CELL
Phantasmogorie – Emile Cohl – 1908 – 1.41
Cats Cradle - Paul Driessen 1974 – 10.23
Destino – Salvador Dali and Walt Disney 1952 – 6.20
Operation X-70 – Raoul Servais 1971 – 10.00

COMPUTER GENERATED 2D
Lapis – James Whitney 1966 – 10.00
Jesse (video for Scott Walkers “Drift”) – Grahame Wood 2006 - 6.25
Marvellous Keen Looney Bin – Lizzie Akana 2006 – 5.38
Evo – Chris Gavin - 2006 - 2.32
Mountains of Madness – Michael Boas – 2006 – 5.43
Bathtime in Clerkenwell – Alex Budovsky 2003 - 3.26
The Amazing Screw-on Head – Chris Prynowski 2006 - 21.51

COMPUTER GENERATED 3D
Day Off the Dead – Lee Lanier / Jeffrey Dates - 6.29
Elephant’s Dream – Bassam Kurdali 2006 – 10.53
Ah Pook is Here – Philip Hunt 1994 – 6.04
Ryleh - Mikael Genachte-Le Bail 2003 – 6.00

STOP FRAME
Game With Stones – Jan Svankmajer 1965 – 9.00
Jabberwocky – Jan Svankmajer 1971 - 13.13
Prometheus Garden – Bruce Bickford 1987 – 27.00
Shadowland – Anthony Lucas 1988 – 6.30

MIXED METHOD
Life - Mo Willems and Company 2003 – 6.09
Reverie Sans Frontieres – Luxun Tan 2004 – 6.30
Program July 18th 07

CGI (mostly 3d style)
Yann Couderc, Xavier Henry, Bruno Hajnal - Akryls (2002)
Blur Studio - In The Rough (2004)
Tomek Baginski.-.Rain (1997)
Tomek Baginski - Cathedral (2002)
Chris Landreth - Bingo The Clown (1998)
Zafer Mustafa - Cutting Room Chore
Marcelo Ricardo Ortiz - Guernica
Jose Guenca - Happy Anniversary
Grzegorz Jonkaltys - Mantis
Pixar - Ice Age Extra (Gone Nutty)
PIxar- For The Birds
Sven Martin - Ritterschlag (2003)

CGI (old school style)
Pillipe Grammaticopoulous - Regulator (2006)
Saschka Unseld & Jakob Schuh - Stresse Der Spezialisten (2006)
Yusuke Koyonagi - Tokyo City (2005)
Shane Acker - 9 (2005)
Supinfocom - Cafard (2006)
Gobelins de l'ecole de l'image - bigoudennMigratrion (2005)

(stop motion)
Peter Cornwell - Ward 13 (2003)
Ishu Patel (1977) - The Bead Game.

(drawn)
Darren Price - Patapych (2001)
Guilherme Marcondes - Into Pieces (2005)
Ring Of Fire - Andreas Hykade (2000)
Tatsuo Sato - Nekojiru-so (Cat Soup) (2001)
Jonathon Hosgson - The Man With The Beautiful Eyes - (Charles Bukowski) (1999)
Bill Plympton - Your Face (1987)
Bill Plympton - How To Make Love To A Woman (1995).
Aubier & Patar - The Babyroussa (1994)
Georges Schwizgebel - Les Jeune Fille Et Les Nuages (2000)

Program 27th June '07

Bill Plympton - 25 Ways To Quit Smoking (1989), How To Kiss (1989), Surprise Cinema (1999)
Raoul Servais - Chromophobia (1966)
Tomek Baginski - Fallen Art (2004)
Norman McLaren - Neighbours (1952)
Phil Mulloy - The History of the World (1994)
Jan Svankmajer - Dimensions Of Dialogue, Flora (1989), Meat Love (1989), The Flat (1968)
Supinfocom - Overtime (2004)
Georges Schwizgebel - 78 Tours (1985)
Badgered - Sharon Colman (2005)
Piotr Kamler - Coeur De Secours (1973), Le Labyrinthe (1969), Une Mission Ephemere (1993)
Don Hertzfeldt - Rejected (+bonus scene, 2000), Genre (1996), Billy's Balloon (1998)
Paul van Driessen - The End of the World in Four Seasons (1995)
Jonas Geirnaert - Flatlife - (2004)
Osamu Tezuka - Jumping (1984)
Ferenc Rofusz - The Fly (1980)
Osvaldo Cavandoli - La Linea 006, 134, 151 (1972) {RIP March 2007}
Run Wrake - idol (2005)
Konstantin Bronzit - The God (2003)
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