Peter Foldès Trailers
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox Trailer
Budapest-born Peter Foldes (1924-1977) was one of a number of Hungarian artists (another was the film's composer Mátyás Seiber) who ended up working with fellow countryman John Halas on the latter's animated films after he moved to Britain in 1946. After leaving Halas, Foldes made a number of animated films in collaboration with his British wife Joan (b. 1924), starting with the allegorical Animated Genesis (1952), On Closer Inspection (1953) and A Short Vision (1956). A Short Vision became one of the most influential British animated films ever made, when it was screened on US television as part of the popular Ed Sullivan Show. Although children were advised to leave the room while it played, it still caused outrage and alarm with its graphic representation of the horrors of nuclear war. In the film, wild creatures flee in terror as a strange missile flies overhead. As it passes over the sleeping city, the world's leaders and wise men look upwards. The missile explodes, destroying humans, wild creatures and the Earth itself. It caught the mood of the times, since the mid-1950s was the height of both the Cold War and nuclear paranoia. Foldes later moved to Paris, where he became an early pioneer in computer animation. In the 1960s, he worked for the Research Service of the ORTF. He is one of the pioneers of computer animation with his film Hunger, which received the Jury Prize in the "short film" category at Cannes Film Festival as well as an Academy Award nomination. (from WIkipedia)
Most Popular Peter Foldès Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
01 January 1971
This short experimental film from Peter Foldès hails from the very early days of computer animation.
01 June 1953
"Without leaving his own garden, a man may know the world" - an abstract study of the wildlife found in every garden.
23 March 1971
Based on the Greek myth of Narcissus and Echo, Foldes employed live-action photography and visual feedback synthesizers from France's Computer Image Corporation to tell the tale in a disquieting, psychedelic manner.
12 May 2022
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry.
01 January 1967
Peter Foldès uses video effects to transpose in his own way three choreographies by Dora Feilane.
01 January 1968
Videographic dream.
06 June 1966
Artistic short film about a man's pursuit of a woman, and its implications.
20 September 1970
"[P]ortraits of three women in the characteristic Foldes style: Sibylle, the psychedelic woman, Flora, the flower woman, Bilitis, the happy woman.
01 January 1965
A graphic variation where a new-born baby devours its mother, then turns into a bloodthirsty monster.
01 January 1952
The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.
01 January 1975
A César winning short animated film depicting ghostly apparitions of a woman inspired by ancient Greek romantic fiction.
01 January 1968
ElectroRhythmes is a short videographic essay.
06 June 1977
An old man plays the flute to feel more youthful, but as soon as he stops playing, he is quickly reminded of how old he really is.
08 September 1968
A businessman and his secretary are moving around the world; as they have no time to lose, they use the most expeditious means.
24 August 1976
A surrealist impression of psychic voyage via sexual union. Released posthumously, comprised of an extract from Foldes' unfinished feature-length animated film.
01 October 1974
In this Oscar-nominated animated short film, director Peter Foldès depicts one man’s descent into greed and gluttony.
06 June 1956
The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.
28 June 1973
Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world.
08 September 1967
Awakening is sort of the history of mankind transposed through the dream world of Peter Foldes who conceived, directed and designed this original work.
