Learn all about Rhode Island’s Industrial Revolution from a pair of singing skunks in the charming animated short film Echoes of Bats and Men by Jo Dery, embedded above. But, like all great, monumental man-made achievements, it all eventually becomes abandoned and gets taken over by swarms of bats.
In addition to being a filmmaker, Dery is also an interdisciplinary artist who produces drawings, prints and small-press books, which all seems especially fitting as this animated film looks as though it’s created primarily out of cut-out paper drawings. That look, along with the educational bent of the story reminds me of those cartoons they’d stick into old episodes of Sesame Street. Actually, I don’t know if the show does that anymore, but it did when I was a kid.
And there are some live-action sequences of real bats inserted towards the end of the film. However,...
In addition to being a filmmaker, Dery is also an interdisciplinary artist who produces drawings, prints and small-press books, which all seems especially fitting as this animated film looks as though it’s created primarily out of cut-out paper drawings. That look, along with the educational bent of the story reminds me of those cartoons they’d stick into old episodes of Sesame Street. Actually, I don’t know if the show does that anymore, but it did when I was a kid.
And there are some live-action sequences of real bats inserted towards the end of the film. However,...
- 12/22/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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