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DramaComedyDocumentaryAnimationExperimentalMusic
Thoughts of a Falling Glass Man
Adam Aiken & Shelley Revill
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music | 2005 | London | 3 min
Published 14 Nov 05
Clockwork creatures living in harmony in an organic world, survive attack to mend their ailing master.
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Clockwork creatures made and brought to life by a large mechanical robot, are living in harmony with nature.

They are suddenly, savagely attacked by an aerial bombardment. The smoke clears to reveal a ravaged robot. The small creatures return to mend the robot, who is brought back to life.
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Birdengine uses found objects and outlandish sound samples to create his unique music. We enjoyed creating a world only informed by sounds (there are no lyrics).

We complemented the music by creating a world patched together with hand made imagery and found objects (which were photographed and scanned). It was a tricky piece of music to create imagery for that did not distract the viewer from the music but accompanied and embellished it.
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comment by Claire  Cook
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posted Nov 18, 2005

good visual interpretation of the music though I personnally preferred the animation itself to the track it represents. Reminiscent of the Iron Man story. Would be good to see some of their other work
Claire  Cook is and a member of Film Network's Industry Panel.
comment by Robert  Kenny
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posted Nov 18, 2005

Definitely the best thing for me was the music, a brave and unusual choice.
Robert  Kenny is General Manager of Curzon Soho and a member of Film Network's Industry Panel.
comment by ludvic  gallo
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posted Nov 16, 2005

a truly beautifull piece of work.
quietly epic.
genius music.
genius animation.
comment by Rachel  Bunion
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posted Nov 15, 2005

I enjoyed this a great deal. Beautiful imagery to a weird experimental track.
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