Drawn

These filmmakers are geniuses of their own kind, but one should know that they have been around for some 40-60 years! It would be really fantastic if children today had a stronger connection to what isn’t mainstream present Tv programs from the USA or Japan. Even although some shows for children from USA/Jap are really great and all, European animation is very often overlooked, ignored by parents or sometimes they just have no idea it exists. And since we live in a world of economy and market, anything overlooked or ignored immediately disappears from shops or tv streams… I could add a lot of other filmmakers either from outside the USA or just from a long time ago, that have been forgotten and are worth being discovered “again”; I was just thinking about it the other day while watching Le Avventure di Pinocchio by Luigi Comencini, maybe there should be a list online somewhere of “alternative” ways of entertaining children… Whose purpose would be not just to make your kids more open to different styles of films, but also promote and encourage people who release these films. Some ideas:
Chapi chapo by Lettiol and Lonati
Cocoshaker by JC Meunier
Pic Pic André by Aubier & Patar
Téléchat by Topor and Xhonneux
Drugaya storona by Mikhail Aldashin
Le roi et l’Oiseau by P Grimault
Krysar by Jiri Barta
Der Lauf der Dinge by Fischli & Weiss
Colargol by Barillé & Wilkosz
Uhloz by Guy Jacques
Gandahar by Laloux and Caza

One can also share with his kids some works from experimental filmmakers Len Lye, Oskar Fischinger, Jim Davis, Stan Brakhage, Patrick Bokanowski, Peter Tscherkassky, etc…

For the more mature audience, I recommend although impossible to find, Quest by Saul Bass and The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb by Dave Borthwick, two of the most accomplished animated/visual films in the world according to me.
Good places to start looking are
http://www.re-voir.com
http://heeza.fr
http://lobsterfilms.com

Three great websites for forgotten and abandonned films of a “different” kind.

These filmmakers are geniuses of their own kind, but one should know that they have been around for some 40-60 years! It would be really fantastic if children today had a stronger connection to what isn’t mainstream present Tv programs from the USA or Japan. Even although some shows for children from USA/Jap are really great and all, European animation is very often overlooked, ignored by parents or sometimes they just have no idea it exists. And since we live in a world of economy and market, anything overlooked or ignored immediately disappears from shops or tv streams… I could add a lot of other filmmakers either from outside the USA or just from a long time ago, that have been forgotten and are worth being discovered “again”; I was just thinking about it the other day while watching Le Avventure di Pinocchio by Luigi Comencini, maybe there should be a list online somewhere of “alternative” ways of entertaining children… Whose purpose would be not just to make your kids more open to different styles of films, but also promote and encourage people who release these films. Some ideas:
Chapi chapo by Lettiol and Lonati
Cocoshaker by JC Meunier
Pic Pic André by Aubier & Patar
Téléchat by Topor and Xhonneux
Drugaya storona by Mikhail Aldashin
Le roi et l’Oiseau by P Grimault
Krysar by Jiri Barta
Der Lauf der Dinge by Fischli & Weiss
Colargol by Barillé & Wilkosz
Uhloz by Guy Jacques
Gandahar by Laloux and Caza

One can also share with his kids some works from experimental filmmakers Len Lye, Oskar Fischinger, Jim Davis, Stan Brakhage, Patrick Bokanowski, Peter Tscherkassky, etc…

For the more mature audience, I recommend although impossible to find, Quest by Saul Bass and The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb by Dave Borthwick, two of the most accomplished animated/visual films in the world according to me.
Good places to start looking are
http://www.re-voir.com
http://heeza.fr
http://lobsterfilms.com

Three great websites for forgotten and abandonned films of a “different” kind.

Sorry I forgot a very important person: Jan Svankmajer.

Sorry I forgot a very important person: Jan Svankmajer.

Haha great picture, I loved Gumby when I was little.

Haha great picture, I loved Gumby when I was little.

I agree with fabulousrice… there’re so many other countries from where creative, clever and educational animation/cartoons are created… By no means, mainstream has given us the best of the best, if anything it has given us average and, sometimes, down right mediocrity. In today’s world, children are growing up faster and need above than average intellectual stimulation which we can easily find if one is not looking at regular TV programming.

I agree with fabulousrice… there’re so many other countries from where creative, clever and educational animation/cartoons are created… By no means, mainstream has given us the best of the best, if anything it has given us average and, sometimes, down right mediocrity. In today’s world, children are growing up faster and need above than average intellectual stimulation which we can easily find if one is not looking at regular TV programming.

Fabulousrice, and ksadams, please keep in mind that the series of posts this links to is for a two-year-old! Jan Svankmajer? You want to come over to my house to get my kid to sleep?

That said, fabulousrice, I checked out some of the links I wasn’t familiar with (others I actually watched in preparing for the series) and Chapi Chapo was perfect. Thanks for the tip!!

Fabulousrice, and ksadams, please keep in mind that the series of posts this links to is for a two-year-old! Jan Svankmajer? You want to come over to my house to get my kid to sleep?

That said, fabulousrice, I checked out some of the links I wasn’t familiar with (others I actually watched in preparing for the series) and Chapi Chapo was perfect. Thanks for the tip!!