Preview of Ana Hušman's 'Lunch'
I wanted to shout out a fabulous piece of art that I saw last week at a Creative Commons event here in Zürich. I was manning a stall all night so didn’t have the chance to fully enjoy it at the time, but having seen it again thanks to Ramon Cahenzli, I’m very glad that I went to the event.
The director’s name is Ana Hušman, and the piece is a short video called ‘Lunch’. It’s half stop-motion, half full-motion, and all genius (fractions were never my strong point, but in this case I’m right).
It takes the form of a guide to dinner party etiquette, but it’s set in a quasi-1970s world of sideboards, sideburns and sideways glances. It really reminded me – and do bear in mind my Neanderthal-level knowledge of high culture – of the vibe of Wes Anderson movies like The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, and other studies of social dysfunction. The dialogue sounds like it’s straight out of a stiff-upper-lip British public information film.
Besides the cool aesthetic, the work that must have gone into it is incredible. Be sure to watch until the end for some amazing stop-motion sequences involving crocheting-by-numbers and stripping back the furniture that was used during the dinner party.
The artist is Croatian, and I can’t find too much more information about her. There’s an interview in Croatian here, and another piece of work by her entitled The Market, which gives some impression of her style. But I’d really recommend that you download the torrent of Lunch. It’s licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Croatia, so it’s K for P to download and share.
Another preview:
Preview of Ana Hušman's 'Lunch'
Oh, thanks for the link! I was quite amazed by Ana’s work, so I’ve encoded and torrented all the films I could find. Tomislav Medak had high-quality sources for them (thanks!), so I’ve encoded The Market (Croatian with and without subs) and Lunch (Croatian, English and German) and put them on The Pirate Bay: http://thepiratebay.org/search/ana%20%20husman/0/99/0
I think The Market is fantastic as well, it gives you a view into Croatian society and traditions (look at all the pickling and preserving going on in stop motion!) as well as a notion of how this might all slowly be destroyed, hearing the old market women talk about big supermarket chains and globalization. And all in just a few minutes. She’s really good at capturing atmospheres