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@Nahan_Boker94

2 жыл бұрын

The first paragraph remind me of Nord VPN man from Incognito

@forgettable8300

2 жыл бұрын

That static design on the merch is badass

@ilusions4

2 жыл бұрын

stop advertising it as though it's all-in-one security, shill

@CannabisReviewPDX

2 жыл бұрын

This video shouldn't have taken 4 months, cut em down

@ilusions4

2 жыл бұрын

@@CannabisReviewPDX Was the irony in that purposeful?

I imagine a director's commentary of the film. "Oh, yes this scene, only 30 seconds long. That's how I spent 1997."

@Nojnoj

2 жыл бұрын

more like 1997 - 2000

@perriwinkleiii5361

6 ай бұрын

A director's commentary of this film would be a full autobiography, periods of their lives marked by frames and scenes

@smaakjeks

4 ай бұрын

lol

@haterxhaterr

Ай бұрын

​@@Nojnojmore like the 90s and 2000s

In a way, they're not making The Overcoat, they're living it

@ringkunmori

2 жыл бұрын

You telling me their ghost will haunt a bunch of animators with over due projects once they die? Dope

@classicpinball9873

2 жыл бұрын

There’s a movie similar to this idea called Synecdoche New York, it’s an interesting watch

@klamerco

2 жыл бұрын

They are not. The overcoat's story is completely different

@classicpinball9873

2 жыл бұрын

@@klamerco not the movies themselves, I’m saying this commenters idea of “living your project” is how synecdoche ny plays out

@redstonewizard11

2 жыл бұрын

I guess you could say the true overcoat was the friends we made along the way

“Francheska is a mystery to me. The more I get to know her, the less I know.” This might sound weird but I get the vibe from that quote that he really, really loves her. The way he wants to work without a script, the way he jokes about not knowing what a film is about until it’s done, I think nothing could ever appeal to him more than a person who he can never quite figure out.

@jessica74252

2 жыл бұрын

what a nice touch

@liberatedlife9676

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate this comment

@EugeneOneguine

Жыл бұрын

I don't trust an artist who tells me they already know what they're gonna do, it means they have a limited source of ideas. You don't have one idea that you want to exploit, you don't have several ideas, either. You have an infinity of ideas. All along the work, new ideas come up, old ideas go down, which may go back up again. It's the work that guides you through which idea you can use. There is no way to know what you're actually gonna make, before it's finished.

@mattsanchez3400

Жыл бұрын

My favorite comment.

@RuminatingWizard

10 ай бұрын

We're really fortunate artists don't make useful things like bridges or communication networks

The man is absolutely 100% fulfilled by doing what he does and suffering every second of it. What a mad lad Yuri is.

@Ki_Thi

9 ай бұрын

And his wife. Francesca is the literal artist who creates all this. Why is a woman always so easily forgotten…

@goatpasta9553

8 ай бұрын

"Find what you love and let it kill you." - Charles Bukowski

@MGrey-qb5xz

7 ай бұрын

@@Ki_Thi the "women" doesn't ask for your pity

@KwadDamyj

2 ай бұрын

One must ACTUALLY imagine Sisyphus happy in this case!

"What are you writing?" "I don't know, I haven't received it yet" Absolutely brilliant-

@AfutureV

2 жыл бұрын

It has been a while since I’ve had chills reading something. That joke did it.

@MrGFloyd

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what imma tell my teacher for now on

@tettettettettet

2 жыл бұрын

That’s just dnd

@cheapchianti6478

2 жыл бұрын

It was both funny and kind of dark too, so very Russian

@whydoineedahandle793

2 жыл бұрын

What does he mean by that ?

these two artists are walking that extremely fine line between genius and madness

@justas423

2 жыл бұрын

The more you sacrifice, the more you get. This is that principle taken to it's extreme. Same thing with James Hampton.

@Awesomesufff

2 жыл бұрын

They’re firmly in the madness camp

@dustinirwin1

2 жыл бұрын

doing something you enjoy with someone you love is madness? how are you going to spend 40 years? meaningful things like binging youtube and going to disneyland?

@Duplicitousthoughtformentity

2 жыл бұрын

@@dustinirwin1 You are a fool to think he disrespects them. Men are made in part with madness, and those that embrace that madness may do incredible things.

@dustinirwin1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Duplicitousthoughtformentity ugh stop fetishizing madness. this couple has a pet project they dedicate a big part of their life to. it's rather normal. i do the same. don't you? it's neither genius nor madness. it's well-centered humanity.

the way they captured the pure bliss on the man's face as he tucks himself into his new overcoat...the gleam in his eyes, the blush in his cheeks, like a child waiting for Santa...it really brought tears to my eyes. And it makes knowing the end of the story even more painful. But that's art. And that's just beautiful. I wish they wouldn't suffer while making their movie but I can at least thank them for having done so, even if only through a comment they'll likely never see (and in my heart.)

@KasumiRINA

10 ай бұрын

I wish Crimean Tatars wouldn't suffer when their homes were taken away and relatives "disappeared" by russian invaders, but the Norstein said he "categorically supports" the occupation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine so I WISH he would actually suffer instead of being a talentless fool westerners are so fascinated with because "russia mysterious".

@Lona_444

9 ай бұрын

thank you for this comment it brought me a lot of emotion, the small details really are everything and time is the villain here, it's all so complicated

I am so afraid Yuri will destroy the unfinished work before he dies. I'm not sure why that is my specific fear, but it is

@Ki_Thi

9 ай бұрын

Because you can sense there’s mental illness going on here. Folie a deux often ends in murder suicide. In their case the self destruction of their work.

@latorrefazionemusic

9 ай бұрын

At some point he says that when he makes a discovery or finds something in the process of making the film, he also goes backwards modifing the parts that he has already done to adapt them to the new way found. So somehow he is destroying the film already while making it.

@kocholawis1851

8 ай бұрын

master and margarita

@Beuwen_The_Dragon

8 ай бұрын

@@latorrefazionemusicanimation of Theseus

@blowitoutyourcunt7675

6 ай бұрын

@@Beuwen_The_Dragon my favorite paradox! It's a great comment on this movie!

People waiting for this to be finished are like the Russian equivalent of Berserk fans

@A_YouTube_Commenter

2 жыл бұрын

Or Half Life 3.

@seacrystal6189

2 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace Kentaro Miura

@LondonLock

2 жыл бұрын

@@A_KZread_Commenter i mean hl3 will probably happen

@skut9

2 жыл бұрын

Sleep well Miura

@lilith5052

2 жыл бұрын

me waiting for both of them …

This almost moved me to tears. As an artist, the desire and will to pour yourself into your work really hit home. The never ending battle with perfection vs completion. To you, the work is never finished because there's always more you can do. Letting go is the hardest part.

@SlitheryDeeChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Writing is easy, just sit at a desk and bleed onto the paper 🤣

@samclements8246

2 жыл бұрын

It’s so hard to just commit, draw the line and say “done”. And then no one seems to know the weight of the failures, the amount of work put in just to get one thing right. A million to one, and it seems that hardly anyone even wants to notice the one.

@LyubomirIko

2 жыл бұрын

At some point such lengthy work of an artist/s becomes the life of an artist/s. Indistinguishable. It is soul transfer.

@harlowjademermaid1882

2 жыл бұрын

i definitely shed a few watching this, it is soo sad what they have been put through. Let them create their hearts desire, I will never understand censorship. Its soo sad.

@SemperFine

2 жыл бұрын

Well said

Here, in Bulgaria, as we were in the Eastern block, every person over 35 remembers Hedgehog and the fog as it was shone as one of the greatest examples of russion genius recurringly on the national television . To this day from time to time it's shown on the program "Good night, kids" (:

@yunyunid981

Жыл бұрын

wait, you guys have “goodnight, kids” too?? i’m from russia, i never thought this program existed anywhere else! makes sense given our history together, but still, so cool to find out. i wonder if we have the same characters on the show too!

@bozhanaslavkova3291

Жыл бұрын

@@yunyunid981 there are different series and short films, so different characters, but for sure we have a lot of them in common

@Gerno_

Жыл бұрын

When lithuania was in the USSR it had a goodnight kids program too!

@dar4061

5 ай бұрын

Yeah things tend to get shared when one country keeps invading the others, I'm sure in 10 or 20 years people will be saying the same thing in Ukraine.. "oh isn't that interesting, we share the same TV shows as Russia, what luck"

@WaningGibbous

3 ай бұрын

It is perfection..

As a traditional animator who refuses to give up her paper and pencils to work on a computer, I found this fascinating. I know little of their work, but I'm sure going to delve deeper into it now.

@Captain_MonsterFart

5 ай бұрын

I got into the biz right when Flash took over. I learned to animate on paper and have always missed that tactile feeling and superior look it achieves.

@emmagrove6491

5 ай бұрын

@@Captain_MonsterFart I hear ya. It's just not the same. I was able to work using paper and pencils for three years, then everything switched to Flash. I moved to L.A. and tried for work but everything was switching to 3D computer animation. I moved back East and worked on a show in Flash for two months then quit because I hated it so much. I haven't worked in animation since. Studios like Aardman and LAIKA have tried switching to 3D computer animation, then moved back to real materials like clay and plasicine because it's just not the same result any other way.

@LasVegasDashie

4 ай бұрын

@@emmagrove6491 Nowadays lego stop motion animators on youtube are switching to animating legos in 3D which makes no sense. Like, legos exist in real life, use them!

@MrKotBonifacy

2 ай бұрын

_"As a traditional animator who refuses to give up her paper and pencils ..., I found this fascinating"_ - meet Julian Antoniszczak (aka Julian Antonisz), who made his films "non-camera", by drawing individual stills by hand directly on a film. His best known piece is "Jak działa jamniczek" (How a Little Dachshund works"), made in 1971 kinda nonsensical (just like all his works) animated movie, or even just surreal - and narrated (for even more grotesque effect) by some old country lady, a simple(ton) woman who's read the narrative from a written script without understanding much of it - and at any rate many of those words/ terms are child-prattle like, "invented" and quite nonsensical yet amusing. So, without further ado, here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pGVqqa5sfpe2lLA.html Should you be interested I may attempt, or "try my best" to translate the "story" but getting it accurately translated is going to be a "mission nigh impossible"... ;-)

I remember back when I was super into Soviet animation ~15 years ago. After watching Skazka Skazok and Hedgehog in the Fog, I was so pumped to learn that Norstein and Yarbusova were adapting one of my favorite short stories, The Overcoat, into a feature-length film. "They've already been working on it for twenty years!" I thought. "Surely it will be ready soon!" ... The next time I thought about it was when I saw the title of this video, and knew exactly which film it would be about.

@InsidiousOne

2 жыл бұрын

Have you watched the "Treasure Island"? The original subbed version (can be seen on KZread), not the export one, which is heavily downgraded. It's not as "artsy", more on a fun side, but the animation is just gorgeous.

@KasumiRINA

10 ай бұрын

@@InsidiousOne Tresure Island is by Kyivnaukfilm, the same Ukrainian studio did a whole series of Cossacks cartoons. They were really good! If you want to help preserving, lobby it! We were urging Criterion to register some of Ukrainian cinema from the era from Dovzhenko studio, like Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, but they absolutely refuse to acknowledge us or answer to comments. Odesa movie studio was just hit with Iranian drone attack yesterday. Several museums bombed, one flooded, others robbed by russians. Preservation of Ukrainian cultural legacy is very important!

@different_stuff

9 ай бұрын

@@KasumiRINA it's not only ukrainian

"There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband and He Hanged Himself"...wow, and I thought isekai titles were crazy.

@Problematist

2 жыл бұрын

As an Isekai it would probably be titled "I Cheated With My Sister's Husband, So What? Let's aim to be the biggest!"

@Leiru-desu

2 жыл бұрын

@@Problematist or from the dude's perspective... "I Hanged Myself After Getting Seduced by my Wife's Sister and Now I'm the Demon Lord's Reincarnation in Another World!?"

@MrGFloyd

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what happened to my mom. RIP aunt Linda

@Cyclone6987

2 жыл бұрын

oh, and dont forget her "There once lived a mother who loved her children, untill they moved back in"

@atomicdancer

2 жыл бұрын

"There Once Lived a Girl Who **spoiler alert** Seduced Her Sister's Husband and He Hanged Himself"

Their animation is truly breathtaking in it's beauty, haunting dreaminess and meticulous obsession. Hopefully The Overcoat will get finished within their lifetime.

@JorgetePanete

8 ай бұрын

its*

@FritzMonorail

7 ай бұрын

@@JorgetePanete Wow, you've contributed so much.

@graceygal2664

6 ай бұрын

To be honest the footage made of the overcoat sucks. I get it's taken years and years but it's all so bloody dark you can't see a thing. A lack of colour, lack of a script and lack of any decent lighting make it look shit

@WarlockofThorns

5 ай бұрын

​@@graceygal2664You can have an opinion.

@afreen5462

3 ай бұрын

@@graceygal2664 you certainly have one of the opinions of all time

I applied at a workshop with Yuri about 15 years ago, he shows us how he made "The Hedgehog in the Fog". He isn't an artist only but a great technician too...

My literature class studied _The Overcoat_ back in my school days and finding out that there’s a unique animated film about it in the works makes me excited for something that probably won’t ever release.

@frankmarano1118

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah they're in their 80s & probably not even halfway done. Unfortunately the chances are increasingly slim that it'll ever release. Especially because theyre old which will make the more eccentric issues worse

@adraedin

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankmarano1118 One can hope the half produced film is auctioned off to some collector in the future who shows it to the world. I imagine, if anyone decides to pick up where this couple left off, it would likely be a slap in the face to the couple and their work to do the remaining part(s) at a pace any faster than they did. That being said, l wouldn't put it past future humans to use the Blender of the time and finish it themselves over the course of a Red Bull just as a quick fan-fiction side project.

@akbarshahzad5780

2 жыл бұрын

I would be shocked if Criterion or Kino or some other art film restoration and distribution company didn't release a cut of the film, no matter how unfinished, after these two die. Some of the greatest artworks in history were never truly "finished". _The Trial_ by Franz Kafka. Mozart's _Requiem._ The poems of Hoelderlin and Mallarme's _Tomb for Anatole._ In animation, _The Thief and the Cobbler_ and _The King and the Mockingbird_ are two that have developed devoted followings in the years since their noncompletion. We can only hope _The Overcoat_ will join this canon of fragments.

@kingdingaling2469

2 жыл бұрын

I SO MUCH want to see “ The OverCoat “ !! They should release what they have , like a 1st half with “ To Be Continued / More To Come “ and then still release thee full version if we get that opportunity ever @ least they can get rich from some great art and not have any funding issues if they even just drop 1st half. Anyone who knows anything about this work of art , as well as their plight , we will all wary to see it. I think Most of Us would as well like to own even a portion of this Masterpiece still in progress. They could @ least get rid of any financial stress and be able to continue as they wish If they produce & publish just a portion of what they have. I mean 40 Years …. Almost every Human on earth will be intrigued , especially if it’s advertised right. They’ll make a lot of $ while still stay true to their craft & their pure artistic selves.

@kingdingaling2469

2 жыл бұрын

@@adraedin 💯 All that ☝️

Their animation style is simply spellbinding. Like nothing I've ever seen before. Breathtaking, boundary-pushing artwork. Sincerely hope there is eventually a release of The Overcoat, in some sort of fashion.

@Trollificusv2

2 жыл бұрын

There will be, I just hope it's left "as created", not "finished", "reimagined" or "improved". Hell. it could be presented with this video as preface. So that the impact of the work, however much actually gets finished, will be better understood. Because by now, this work is only peripherally related to, or constrained by, the source story "The Overcoat".

@jon-umber

2 жыл бұрын

@@Trollificusv2 100% agree.

@Skitdora2010

2 жыл бұрын

@@Trollificusv2 Makes you appreciate the 4 or 5 different versions you can find of the movie Bladerunner, or the 3 version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Some Dvds release different cuts of things as either separate units for purchase, on the same disk at the start menu, or in the special features. So, hopefully they will see a release of previous cuts of their film and an introduction to their learned new technique that made them go back and change it all over again.

@gre4231

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Jon, nice seeing you here.

@WobblesandBean

2 жыл бұрын

We finally got to see Salvador Dali's _Destino,_ so I have hope we'll see this, too. Even if they never finish, someone will take charge and make sure it's released to the public.

I cannot even miss a day of work without worrying how i will pay my bills or eat. How in the world did they afford to not make money for over 40 years?!?;😮

@StrangeScaryNewEngland

4 ай бұрын

It is called finding a way to be a lazy leech and act like it is some radical and philosophical, and that you try to act like others are inferior compared to your artistic free-thinking self.

@ClickClack_Bam

2 ай бұрын

They can probably provide for themselves the things you MUST work to provide yourself. Imagine if you grew simply potatoes & chicken. You can live on that. It might be boring sticking to just that but you'll be free in other ways that make slaves of others.

Norstein short films mentioned: Heron and the Crane Hedgehog in the Fog Tale of Tales Others Hungarian: the Tragedy of Man, dir. Marcell Jankovics English: The thief and the cobbler -- dir Richard Williams The King and the Mockingbird - dir Paul Grimault Hoffmaniada - dir. Stanislav Sokolov (Let me know if I missed any! I want to see them all.)

@eyennordic348

2 ай бұрын

I think, Shojo Tsubaki has similar story of one-man-made animation, except voice actors.

The quality of the animation is mildly terrifying. Especially after hearing all the suffering and struggle that went into it.

@skeletontoes7692

2 жыл бұрын

All I see is beauty. Funny how subjective art is.

@pronoobie5780

2 жыл бұрын

Terrifyingly beautiful? Beautifully terrifying?

@kingdingaling2469

2 жыл бұрын

@@pronoobie5780 Yes. ☝️

@abstract0407

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like some one out there will still edit thier work and make it better. Maybe improve the films fluidity or resolution. What ever it is that they are trying to achieve will be monumental

@albertopeixoto

2 жыл бұрын

@@abstract0407 Sometimes more fluidity doesn’t make the film better, just different. Animation is tricky, what some consider better could be detracting from the creators vision. So any enhancements have to be carefully thought out if the creators are no longer with us.

Just wanted to say that this channel is a gem. A lot of others in this area of KZread circulate the same stale content, but you always manage to find really fascinating, obscure stories that actually have enough depth to justify a 30-60 minute video.

@fidelio9301

2 жыл бұрын

That’s true I’m impressed how she actually manages this.

@gandhitheholeresizer8329

2 жыл бұрын

@@fidelio9301 4 months seems like a reasonable amount of time to make this video

@nine-toedsloth7168

2 жыл бұрын

Amen

@fidelio9301

2 жыл бұрын

@@gandhitheholeresizer8329 For sure but I just meant I agree with the sentiment of how she manages to find topics we haven’t heard much about. It’s cool.

@asemic

2 жыл бұрын

Other than this and the Down the Rabbit Hole series, I don't know of anything else of such quality.. But I'm looking if anyone has channel suggestions!

I'm coming back from a therapy session, and I can recognize myself in Yuri. Perfectionism are caused by trying to prove your sufficiency, but you can always hide it like" passion or love to the artwork" but most of the times is self sabotage. Thanks God I contained myself for being a stop motion animator, I KNOWI would have end up working on a film for 50+ years completely alone , because no one would stand me.

@BigChungusWhale

2 жыл бұрын

Bro… you’re literally 12

@DanielSanchez-ul7ve

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh… I’m 26

@paulwoodford1984

9 ай бұрын

@@DanielSanchez-ul7ve you’re literally 27 lol.

@LasVegasDashie

4 ай бұрын

@@paulwoodford1984 Bruh... he's 27 and 4 months

@somtoakah1866

2 ай бұрын

Hello bro, how were you able to overcome this issue, I’m 25 and i have this problem

The quality of production for these videos is insane. The research required, the nuance of your coverage...it's astonishing and wonderful to experience.

The plight of an artist is so rarely understood by anyone other than themselves. Self sabotage and self criticism to overcome often keep many great pieces from ever coming to light. Others try to change and some offer anything to get these works of art done that completely obscures what the artist is really about. Edit: Also….Amazing video btw. This is the exact reason I’m subscribed to see this in-depth description of something I’ve never even heard of. Thank you

@justcommenting4981

2 жыл бұрын

They're obviously insane.

@luclin92

2 жыл бұрын

@@justcommenting4981 nah its more that they get so focused on details, and once perfection sets in it can easily overturn their lives. and so many artists have ended up in that trap. hell even the video game industry experiences this. one of the most famous ones is duke nukem forever which was plagued with this, because the original creator basically scrapped the game and started all over again multiple times. it all ended when they ran out of money and someone else bought the rights to the ip

@justcommenting4981

2 жыл бұрын

@@luclin92 yea, that's being insane.

@jamm6_514

2 жыл бұрын

@@justcommenting4981 Then send me to an asylum because self-sabotage and the search for wellness is consuming my life

@justcommenting4981

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamm6_514 an asylum just keeps you from bothering others not paid to deal with it. Being crazy isn't a crime.

"The Hedgehog in the Fog" is a big cultural thing to this day, in the ex-USSR. Where I live we have a franchise of bars called that.

@i_am_kofit

2 жыл бұрын

The hedgefog in the hog

@katekursive1370

2 жыл бұрын

Can confirm from Ukraine, one of the classics still

@netscayped

2 жыл бұрын

oh damn i thought it was only in latvia, thats awesome

@netscayped

2 жыл бұрын

does everyone also go there to smoke weed in yalls countries

@frankmarano1118

2 жыл бұрын

@@katekursive1370 that's very interesting to know, thank you for chiming in anyone from Russia or Ukraine

The Overcoat is my favorite short story I read for my literature classes in school. I’ve reread it and sometimes just think of parts of the story when I’m reminded of it. Knowing this much artistic passion exists towards the story makes me pray a large portion of the film can be completed so that I can sit on my couch on a cold February Saturday morning all depressed yet inspired and in awe of the human condition

@purgatoryusa

7 ай бұрын

This though

@lipingguo6

5 ай бұрын

Yes

I hope this labour of love get's finished; I admire the intense dedication of it's creators. Francheska's art is stunningly beautiful, and I think I understand Yuri's pride and stubbornness.

@JorgetePanete

8 ай бұрын

gets* its*

This was such a fascinating story. My god, this feels like a legend, a myth. Truly inscredible.

@DiegoTan66

2 жыл бұрын

She just described it.

@DiegoTan66

2 жыл бұрын

My bad, read it as "truly indescribible" and thought you were being silly, while it was me who was being silly

@guruguru3139

2 жыл бұрын

Carai

@pedrolima625

2 жыл бұрын

carai

@geomidia8998

2 жыл бұрын

carai

animation is the ultimate beauty of the art world, and its sad to see their talent stomped out by censorship and self sabotage

@boznsjbruhstudios6383

2 жыл бұрын

First

@sirlimen333

2 жыл бұрын

Is it really self sabotage when you are aware of your intentions? They do this out of their passion despite everything, not for others.

@MrGFloyd

2 жыл бұрын

Right. I hate finals trump but still voted for him because of how the dems are against free speech and censorship.

@qwellen7521

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirlimen333 numerous studios/creatives offered to fund production - and they said no. Talk about punching a gift horse in the mouth. Also If a piece of art is destroying your relationships; it’s probably worth reconsidering how you make it.

@moldelder9522

2 жыл бұрын

You think republicans want to protect your free speech? Uhhhh interesting opinion

I’m not sure how it’s possible, but I went to school for animation in the nineties and these artists were never referenced. Just amazing.

@zumazuma568

Жыл бұрын

the curriculum hadn't caught up with the end of the cold war yet, probably

@LickMyMusketBallsYankee

2 ай бұрын

Because why would you reference garbage tequnique that was forced to grow because of the cesspool it was crafted in? That's like praising the flowers in Cherynobyl for developing radiation resistance because they were forced to grow in an exclusion zone

This guys reminds of George R.R Martin. He can’t finish his masterpiece, but he refuses to accept any help to speed it up. Amazing how some artists are so unwilling to compromise on their vision.

And I thought Thief and the Cobbler had a troubled production. Never heard of this film before or most of the topics you cover. That's the main reason I look forward to your videos!

@tooruoikawa8985

2 жыл бұрын

Before watching I 1000% thought this would be about that!

@MrGFloyd

2 жыл бұрын

lol better hope i don’t see you out

@MrGFloyd

2 жыл бұрын

Or you are done

@MrGFloyd

2 жыл бұрын

You’re the one who made fun of my little sister for having autism under that NELK video.

@ROTTERDXM

2 жыл бұрын

@@tooruoikawa8985 same!

You mentioned The King and the Mockingbird, and I love how the main guy behind that was like “Fuck it, we’re finishing it no matter what” so the end product has a clear distinction between the animation that was done in the late 40’s versus the animation that was done in the late 70’s but at least they got it done. I haven’t seen it yet because it’s pretty hard to find but I do know that the music for the finished movie fuckin SLAPS

@koobeeack

2 жыл бұрын

I know this doesn’t help much now, but the director’s cut was streaming on Mubi last Christmas. If I were you, I’d keep an eye on that and possibly the Criterion Channel, as I think they overlap in programming a bit.

I wish these two the best. Their art is incredible and their devotion is admirable

Thanks SO much for bringing these animators to our attention! I had never heard of them or their work before, but god….I am ASTOUNDED by their talent.

The art is absolutely hauntingly beautiful

@redlaserfox3988

2 жыл бұрын

Fully full on captivating

"The only things Yuri is afraid of, is the things that might really help him." A lot of creative people are this way, and I've let myself succumb to this at certain points in my life. Despair becomes a lifestyle. Self-Sabotage is comfortable and familiar; success is strange and terrifying. There's also an aspect of "control" at play. If I were to guess, I imagine Yuri believes that any outside help he accepts compromises the integrity of his work. The work that is really the only thing in his life he probably has ever had total control over.

@vicentgalvan70

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck, this hits home hard.

@IsoYear

2 жыл бұрын

this description of me is both comforting and haunting as i imagine what could have been while ignoring what is. a great life that hates himself for not having a great life

@inventedcool1076

2 жыл бұрын

Nailed it.

@saberserpent1134

2 жыл бұрын

@@IsoYear I call it the "Disney Effect". You give a child a simple, repeating pattern to "success", or "happily ever after". The child grows, and realizes the actual complexities of life and human relationships, and it starts this sort of dissonance between reality and expectation that we can never seem to reconcile.

@luichinplaystation610

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better out of my mind

Thank you so much for putting this together. The Norsteins have been one of my most favorite animators to admire and learn more about. There aren't many overviews on these two in English, so I greatly appreciate you creating this.

I noticed a trend in a couple of the topics you covered. A lot of the time it seems like the main force delaying production is pure perfectionism. That's kinda terrifying.

Man after watching this, the visual style of Darkwood makes so much sense now. The game’s visual directors probably watched these cartoons when they were children and it was burn into their memories.

@xya6877

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing immediately. The very unique art style of Darkwood makes a lot more sense when you see the Soviet animation style of the 20th century.

Your presentation style is second to none.

@andrewmcreynolds3692

2 жыл бұрын

An official boy in the wild

@doublejay554

2 жыл бұрын

Atrocity Guide on the official podcast when

@badascan8910

2 жыл бұрын

Your mother

@nickdanger12345

2 жыл бұрын

If this comment were a mine craft block, it'd be planks. I'm stiff as a board thinking that you'd get Atrocity Guide on the podcast.

@jackmeyers7805

2 жыл бұрын

By-gawd JR its one uh them bois!

As an animator myself, I don’t think I would have the dedication to work on something like this for so long! Every day, too. Truly inspiring and incredible work.

I love your videos on unique and misunderstood artists! I want to suggest a video about Vivian Maier. She was a photographer who wasn’t discovered until after her death because she never showed the photos to anyone and was a recluse. It’s a fascinating story!

He is very known in Russia, generations grew on his cartoons.

@rainierzx9677

2 жыл бұрын

That's sad

This reminds me of the The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke a painting by Richard Dadd, who worked on it for 9 years whilst he was held at the Lunatic Asylum of Bethlem Royal Hospital. He had murdered his father. He only stopped working on the painting after he was transferred to another mental institution where he later died. The painting references old English folklore and Shakespeare, and has a semi 3D effect due to the amount of paint that Dadd applied to canvas over the years.

@Trollificusv2

2 жыл бұрын

"The Overcoat" does seem to have commonalities with such one-of-a-kind things, or Henry Dargers 15,000 page opus. Their uniqueness falls outside art theory. Indeed, it falls outside the judgement of "normal" artists and critics altogether. And I LOVE that sort of stuff!!

@Matthy63

2 жыл бұрын

Ironic surnames be like

@slipknot95maggot

2 жыл бұрын

...................................Yea, no, I'll bite ..... Richard Dadd killed his dad..................? Okay, life

@animula6908

2 жыл бұрын

He killed his father, but not murdered him. Because he was too crazy to be competent mentally. Murder implies malicious intent by a competent mind.

@darkjapan

2 жыл бұрын

@@animula6908 Alright. I'll give you that. I suppose it was all the same to his father though

At this point, the film's marketing would simply revolve around "40 years in the making" instead of the film's quality itself.

Hedgehog in the Fog is an absolutely gorgeous, stunning and unique work of art. It's so atmospheric. Knowing so much more of the story behind its creators is giving me life. What a way to showcase genius and art and how it can overtake your life, and how art is so much more than just a job or a project.

This breaks my heart as a fellow artist, I especially struggle with perfectionism for details people will never notice and end results that barely differ. I'm finally getting past that, but it's been nearly a decade of this mindset that (at least for myself) staggered my growth more than refined it. Maybe it brings them purpose and identity, but its a heavy burden to bear. edit: I finally updated my avatar to my own art. Previous icon was "The Stalk" from the comic book "Saga".

@Ten_Thousand_Locusts

2 жыл бұрын

Did you draw your pfp? If yes, where can I find more. And if no, who did?

@iainwalker8701

2 жыл бұрын

My uncle has been writing a history book for nearly 30 years. Part of me thinks he doesn't want to stop as be wont know what to do with himself. Its became the only life he knows. I get the feeling the two discussed are in a similar mindset.

@360.Tapestry

2 жыл бұрын

this is just a hot take, but you could say they've become incredibly self-indulgent. deadlines help focus action. without any real time constraints, they've fallen victim to parkinson's law, where the work expands to fill the time allotted. this could be their escape from all the trauma they likely experienced growing up in soviet russia

@TheDuckGamer47

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts It's character from the comic book series 'Saga'. The comic has been ongoing since 2012, there are 54 issues as of now, about 9 volumes and more coming in January 2022. It's a bit of a passion project from the creator, with only 2 people working on it. I'd recommend the series to anyone looking into reading comic books

@existentialcrisis8321

2 жыл бұрын

I'm in this boat right now, and I'm trying to active fight it.

The Overcoat was one of those stories I read in Literature class that stuck with me. I was really shocked that was the story they're adapting, it makes it especially poetic.

There are many innovators in animation,and there are many superstars of animation. But Yuri and Francesca are HEROES of the art form. Please remember this.

@kylenewberry9792

2 ай бұрын

I disagree that they are “heroes”. That is a bit much. If they actually produced something it would be different.

Your videos are absolutely incredible. The narration and editing, the choice of story and the way it unfolds... moving and brilliant

I find the fact that Yuri and his wife are continuing to work on the movie even though they have essentially given up on the idea of finishing it to be very fascinating. Do they feel an obligation to finish it? Do they find value in dedicating all their energy on a project that will never be truly completed? It all just sounds so antithetical to why most people make art and I would love to hear their reasoning and perspective.

@Trollificusv2

2 жыл бұрын

Taking a guess, I think they'd say that the "doing of it" is the art, the final product is just a result. Like, the act of painting is the "art", not the finished piece. The playing of the music is the "art", not the recording of it. Needless to say, this cannot be a popular art school view, because it renders artistic hierarchies irrelevant.

@remedy00

2 жыл бұрын

I think making art for oneself's sake is not really antithetical to art, since theres plenty of people who draw/paint/doodle/play music for themselves and arent really interested in putting it out there, but I think it defintely seems antithetical to filmmaking

@Sergio-nb4hj

2 жыл бұрын

@@Trollificusv2 That's cool. I wish I could adopt that mentality, but it's too foreign. I'm a self-taught independent artist, but I only care for the final product. Everything else feels like a barrier between my idea and it's realization When I leave something I was passionate about creating unfinished, it feels like I've achieved nothing, so of course I am dissatisfied with a lot of the work I've done and that sucks

@thelastchannelonyoutube

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sergio-nb4hj , There's a saying that I hope will help with your situation (it did for me). It goes: "art is never finished, only abandoned".

@vicentgalvan70

2 жыл бұрын

It looks like somwhere along the way they just lost track of what they want and just gave up to habit and old age.

As much as I admire there sheer dedication and talent; a general rule is that your creation should not consume you. That never ends well.

@seacrystal6189

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Art is incredibly important, but so is enjoying life

@ArekusaSan

2 жыл бұрын

I’m figuring that’s why it’s being covered on a channel with the name Atrocity Guide. As an artist myself, I sympathize with wanting to capture as much of your vision as possible, but it can become dangerous if you don’t exercise boundaries with your work.

@johngddr5288

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArekusaSan I don't think I would even want to spend so much on a production, even if its my own. Id get bored and I would just want to be able to make as much shit as I can and improve gradually. Not devote my whole life for chasing perfection and getting only one piece done in my fucking lifetime.

@pinetreeYT

2 жыл бұрын

This film isn't for you and I to consume, it's a film for them to enjoy working on. Doing something together with your soul mate is one of the best things one can do with their time. Sometimes stressful, sometimes fun, as with any meaningful relationship.

@abecharles7652

2 жыл бұрын

@@pinetreeYT I think you are missing the point here

i will like to congratulate the channel, and to all the pepleo who worked in this episode. marvelous. ty

Your researching skills on this video (in my opinion) is almost as brilliant as their animation, and the engaging story telling just tops it all off. Not to mention the aesthetically pleasing linguistics (for me as non native speaker, I appreciate that). Really running out of things to say here, we'll wait for next video after you wake up again from your creative hibernation, but I can't complain because I do believe that "good things take time".

I mean, maybe it shouldn't be about whether *we* ever get to see it. Maybe it's just fulfilling on a deep level for a husband and wife to spend their lives doing something they love doing together

@GagsAnimation

Жыл бұрын

That’s beautiful

I do believe that this film will end up like Keith Haring's unfinished painting, where the incompleteness of the work is part of the experience

@shadymcnasty5920

2 жыл бұрын

Keith hearings unfinished work is finished though. In the sense that is intended imagine and symbology he wanted to capture. This... this is something else

@fractalife

2 жыл бұрын

Kentaro Miura

I started watching your videos about half a year ago, and you quickly became one of my favorite youtube channels, if not my absolute favorite. I work night shift and I find your content so captivating, I can lose hours on your content with it only feeling like minutes. It really helps pass time during these long work hours. Thank you for the great content.

inb4 YanDev says "The world's greatest animated film has taken over 40 years, so clearly YanSim is warranted to take one fourth of that time!"

I hope that an untarnished version of whatever the final state of the film ends up being sees a release, I remember being transfixed by the theif and the cobbler simply by nature of the complex and mesmirizing detail and the surreal nature of the characters and movements but the aspects that were clearly just inserted by those without the vision detracted greatly from it. the footage I see of the overcoat is profoundly moving in a manner that I don't think I have felt before and I would hate to see it spoiled by any similar meddling.

@RisingRevengeance

2 жыл бұрын

I imagine we'll only get to see what's done when one or both of them die as morbid as that sounds

@schnauzer360

2 жыл бұрын

@@RisingRevengeance as sad as it sounds, you might be right. But hopefully they're able to finish it before that.

@Sleepy_Cabbage

2 жыл бұрын

@@schnauzer360 they aren't getting any younger.

@calicojakk9974

2 жыл бұрын

If they don't end up finishing the film it would probably be better that it remain unseen.

@369Sigma

2 жыл бұрын

@@calicojakk9974 my morbid curiosity and wanton desire to appreciate in it's state the masterpiece of this duo says otherwise.

Richard Williams: I'm going to spend 30 years making The Thief and the Cobbler. No animator is more of a perfectionist than me. Yuri Norstein: Hold my vodka.

@jonhanson8925

2 жыл бұрын

I think Richard would have kept working on the Thief and the Cobbler another couple decades if it wasn't taken from him.

@age3rcm

2 жыл бұрын

i was searching for this comment

Wow. Their animation is so beautiful. Thank you for creating this video and exposing the world to their work

Thank you for this wonderful video! I’ve never heard of Yuri and Francheska before, but their story is now one of my favorite things. So sad and tortured.. but beautiful as well. Bravo 👏🏼

In a way, things like this remind me of the lengthy and arduous process that Kentaro Miura had undergone in creating the manga Berserk from 1989 until his untimely death this past June. The meticulous detail he invested in the artwork of every page is staggering, and even after over 30 years it still wasn't complete. Amazing accomplishments by both him and these artists, mad respect to them all🙏

@chimedemon

2 жыл бұрын

I actually recently began wondering if this animation style is possibly the thing that could make a great adaptation of berserk happen. I think it would allow there to be more of a focus on making a handful of frames, and meticulously rendering them out before animating them all as a whole… honestly I think it would give Berserk the dark fairytale vibe it’s always deserved, and the fact that the last adaptation there EVER was of it before Miura died was the 2016-2017 adaptation…. Fucks with me… I really think this is possible

@standabout

2 жыл бұрын

Miura was also the first person to come to mind

@souljastation5463

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about Miura but mangaka usually have assistants, he himself started his career as assistant of Tetsuo Hara, the creator of Kenshiro.

@ayejay8847

2 жыл бұрын

@@souljastation5463 He has an assistant but the artwork is 100% Miura only. I think he stated in an interview that he only lets his assistants fix mistakes and inconsistencies but that’s it.

@souljastation5463

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayejay8847 mangaka usually have multiple assistants, if he only had one I get why it took so long to publish a new volume.

Wake up babe, new Atrocity Guide just dropped. (I mean this unironically: new videos from you are always the highlight of my day!)

@ttrestle

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@Sorrelhas

2 жыл бұрын

Cue footage of SecundusRomanus waking up his wife at 4 in the morning to watch a new Atrocity Guide video

@eiffe

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the AI will appreciate your loyalty

as someone with a special interest in the history of animation, i am shocked that i've never heard of these two. time to go watch all their work!

@wrongIQ

7 ай бұрын

dude...

@EugeneOneguine

5 ай бұрын

Check out the works of Starewitch too, if you don't know him.

Favorite release of yours, yet. Incredibly thought provoking, beautiful, and tragic. Having recently watching Bo Burnham's Inside, I've lately been fascinated w/ the creative process and how finishing a work is the scariest thing a creative can imagine, because it means that they'll be right back where they started.

My gawd. That animation! It's so detailed and fluid my brain insists it's done with computers and just imitating stop-motion because I can't comprehend stop-motion being that complex looking but it is.

@RuminatingWizard

10 ай бұрын

Coraline is way better

Read the title and thought this was going to be about Mad God. Both stories of stop motion passion projects in the works for decades. Hopefully I'll be able to see both films one day

@Otra_Chica_de_Internet

2 жыл бұрын

Mad Dog already came out tho

@vampire_juicebox

2 жыл бұрын

@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet only at a few film festivals

@justas423

2 жыл бұрын

@@vampire_juicebox it still came out.

@vampire_juicebox

2 жыл бұрын

@@justas423 I didn't say it didn't come out

@budusbusham3324

2 жыл бұрын

Have seen mad god, you can definitely tells there’s parts they winged/changed the idea for the sake of practicality but there’s basically nothing else like it in cinema. It’s properly grotesque. Fetid, even.

Nexpo brought me to this channel and I'm so glad. Loved every single bit of this video, your investigation and narration is amazing. Thank you for the content!! I'm subscribing for sure.

Thank you for sharing this with us! And you present it with such amazing quality

In some ways, these two remind me of the Hungarian composer György Kurtág and his wife/collaborator Márta. György is notorious for his intense perfectionism and concentration of material; most of his pieces don't run past 10 minutes in length, some are seconds long. His magnum opus and only opera, an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, was premiered in 2018, some sixty years after his first seeing the play, several years after its commission, and when Kurtág was in his 90's--and Márta, who had been integral to his composition process for his entire career, died just under a year later. I hope that Yuri and Francheska have the time to see their magnum opus through. It looks shockingly, hauntingly beautiful.

@heiroot

2 жыл бұрын

Ive never seen anything like it

“While the law has many penalties for the atrocities we inflict on others, there are no punishments for the terrors we inflict on ourselves.” - an computer animated show Yuri would hate

@ratedr7845

Жыл бұрын

What's it called?

@BlazeHeartPanther

Жыл бұрын

@@ratedr7845 From the Roosterteeth web series "Red vs. Blue"

@pipfox7834

8 ай бұрын

The punishments *are the terrors*...need we say it...

This is what my life has been like for me with my work. Alone, broke, unheard of, trying to balance your craft and your life but needing to put literally where free moment into your work if at all possible. And yet despite all your work, it takes ages and you feel like you're always just barely making progress. But this is just what it's like when you don't have funding, acknowlegement, staff, and when you are immutable on your personal standards for your work. If you refuse to budge any creative direction whatsoever, which is completely understandable as an artist, you accept the undertaking of being alone and enslaved to your work. It is turmoil constantly trying to decide if your art is worth the level of sacrifice it demands or not. But somehow you cant stop.

Your videos are always so well done and they're always about the most interesting subjects. Love your work!

I'm a pretty big animation fan and I've heard so many stories about the same couple hundred animators. I was expecting this to do a documentary on Richard Williams and the Theif and the Cobbler. I've never heard of these two, thank you for sharing this!

@tangerinesfolga3243

2 жыл бұрын

Soviet animation (and early russian) is a gold mine - you should look into it. There’s a lot of great masters: Norshtein, Khitruk, Tatarsky, Atamanov, Ivanov-Vano, Kovolev, Aldashin, Cherkassky and many more. Their animation is passionate, deep, well structured and sometimes with great sense of humor.

Just gonna be "that guy" and point out that "The Overcoat" was written before the Russian Revolution and thus was a portrayal of the badness of Tsarist times , so that's probably why it made it past the censors.

@SerpMolot

2 жыл бұрын

You do realize that pre-Revolution Russian literature was never censored? In a few cases, like with "Demons", it just wasn't printed en masse, but never censored. Westerners just don't understand Russian-Soviet culture at all and the HEAVY emphasis on literature and the deep meanings behind stories. This isn't some American classroom where you're asked what your favorite part was of a complex story that doesn't pertain to your own persona. This video makes it seem that Soviet cartoons, besides Norstein's, were bad. Ask ANY non-americanized Russian and he'll respond by saying Soviet animation was the best.

@4.0.4

2 жыл бұрын

@@SerpMolot Soviet education is a mixed bag. You have good things, crushed below the boot of Communism. Imagine how far the former Soviet countries would have gotten without such a massive handicap.

@SerpMolot

2 жыл бұрын

@@4.0.4 the communist ideology put emphasis on quality, multifaceted education unlike capitalist education which needs you to be able to do only basic tasks and not use your brain for anything more. What you said is like saying Italian wine is good but the grapes are bad...

@markdisalvi1487

2 жыл бұрын

@@SerpMolot The communist ideology required all films to constantly moralize to the audience.

@SerpMolot

2 жыл бұрын

@@markdisalvi1487 propaganda films - sure. Still better than many degenerate Hollywood films.

This is the most comprehensive well crafted documentary on Yuri Norstein. During the years that I taught animation (1980-84) at Harvard's Carpenter Center For the Visual Arts, we attempted to sponsor Yuri Norstein in person with the award winning "Tale Of Tales" to come to the U.S. That was prohibited by the Russian government, however we did get approval for "cultural representatives" Galina Levetina (now Khitruk) and one other person to come, with much bureaucratic "red tape" and money, they did make it bringing 35mm film prints with a complete show of Nortstein's animation, with "Tale Of Tales" the high light. We got to see "Hedgehog In the Mist (or Fog) for the first time in the U.S. Norstein is the most brilliant creator in animation history and just like Andre Tarkvosky, not truly honored in their own country.

Amazing video again. Good work, Atrocity

This makes me think of De Niro's line in Wag the Dog: "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

@briggy4359

2 жыл бұрын

Which is itself a paraphrase of what Patton said.

@kingdingaling2469

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated movie. More people need to go back and watch that movie. So many people haven’t even seen it and they break it all down right there. Like WAKE UP PEOPLE ! MSM is Propaganda BS

@firejelly

2 жыл бұрын

@@briggy4359 Yeah, though his wasn't as succinct. Still good though and I love the phrase "violently executed."

you would think her monotone voice wouldn’t be enough for viewers to stay interested but it’s the most articulate shit I’ve ever heard I can’t get enough

@aliveandwellinisrael2507

2 жыл бұрын

I personally have no interest in art, but yeah - the next thing I knew, 45 mins had gone by

@bepinkfloyd814

2 жыл бұрын

@@aliveandwellinisrael2507 same my dude, i was just lighting my joint and now 45 minutes later i'm high As a kite and this was sooo good to watch. Amazing video

@carfscawthonii6937

2 жыл бұрын

I watched other youtube videos and I wanted to sleep despite being short and 15min the longest. Then Im surprised that I still have energy to finish this video without feeling sleepy given the monotonic voice. I conclude its all about the interest and this video is full in quality

@eiffe

2 жыл бұрын

You do realize you are watching computer-generated content?

@sumroks7020

2 жыл бұрын

@@eiffe wtf

Truly an impressive deep dive on criminally unknown animators. Keep up the good work!

There are two animated movies that came before Disney's Snow White, The Apostol and The Adventures of Prince Achmed, they were not draw, but done in this style that mimics stop motion. The more I look at The Overcoat, the more I imagine this alternate history where this style never went out of fashion and animators everywhere were constructing movies so detailed every frame is a painting, a diagram, and a set at the same time.

As a fellow artist who has spent years on a single project, I fully understand how they feel. They have been doing other projects which delays work on their primary goal, so it isn't like they are only working on just the film. Maybe we want to see what they are working on, but all great artists leave behind unfinished work. What hurts is the work they or others throw out or destroy.

@PlutoTheGod

Жыл бұрын

In a way it could probably never live up to the amount of work they’re putting into it in terms of getting what they’d want response wise from it, so maybe it’s good they just continue to get enjoyment out of perfecting it rather than expecting any reaction to it as it’s their life’s works

You never miss. You always manage to find stories nobody has covered yet, and it’s so evident you’re passionate about the stories you tell. It never feels like you’re covering topics for views, you’re telling these stories because you want them told. Hats off to you, Atrocity. Each time you upload it’s a treat.

@eiffe

2 жыл бұрын

You realize you are talking to a computer?

This is one of the most captivating and well-done videos I have seen in a while. You are very much appreciated!

One of the best post I’ve ever seen and heard. Thank you for bringing attention to the wonderful artists.

This was absolute genius. I completely understand why they both are doing this and I completely agree. This is the true definition of a torture artist ..

Неожиданно увидеть освещение такой родной темы на этом канале, еще и с такой поразительной глубиной и проработкой. Такое бы по нашим каналам крутить!

@lsdmarch8889

2 жыл бұрын

@Brandon Knight idk, I saw a couple of videos today and subscribed, seemed an ok channel to me

@ringkunmori

2 жыл бұрын

@Brandon Knight what's wrong with Tom Scott?

@HGAMES69

2 жыл бұрын

@Brandon Knight nigga what

@senlevchenkova3136

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, right, that's surprising. In case the author will read this branch of comments - i can help with russian words and surnames emphasises and pronunciation in future - if needed, of course. Many content creators struggle with foreign names :) best wishes to Atrocity Guide, though.

@MrGFloyd

2 жыл бұрын

Stop speaking gibberish

Once I read the thumbnail, I immediately thought of The King and the Mockingbird. Thank you for bringing it up, not enough people talk about that film. I still want to find an English subbed version of it available for download or purchase in some form some day, and this film will definitely be the one I hope to see next within my lifetime. In addition to their other work, of course.

Interviewer: So, what are you working on? Animators: Yes.

Atrocity Guide's intense dedication to the obscure deserves it's own Atrocity Guide video. Always worth the wait.

When you spend 24 years struggling, continuing to struggle is the only way to live. Loosing the struggle means loosing your identity and your motivation to move forward. At least, that's what it feels like to the person experiencing it. In reality a difficult but short period of readjusting is completely possible, but to the person it seems like an impenetrable wall.

@adsilcott

2 жыл бұрын

I think this is an insightful comment, and I have to imagine that it's part of what's going through Yuri's mind when he turns down money. How could the specific quality and tone of the film possibly stay the same if they changed anything about the way it's being made? Including the location, the funding and living conditions... Any of those would have an impact on the process. I also imagine that he might be worried that taking money would create some pressure to complete something that he knows they'll probably never finish.

@JohnPorsbjerg

2 жыл бұрын

@@adsilcott Those are fairly logical reasons but something you can overcome. Behaving like this for 24 years is obsessive and irrational, so I think there has to be a deeper reason. My personal guess is he feels like accepting money delegitimises the pain he went through so far. The money existed all along, but he has to go through those first hard years with no funding. It might also be a kind of spite.

Been following the Overcoat's development since 2008 when I saw some of Norstein's work. Hopefully it will be finished someday.

@fernandomaron87

6 ай бұрын

I've been following it since around 2002/2003 lol, i know it won't be finished, i hope that at least when he dies they release everything he had done, probably 1/3 to half movie.

I am so glad that there are still amazing people like that. Keep up the great work!

It’s a sad story and I get the feeling that is exactly what Yuri wants to be.

Im going to go watch every single movie they made after this like how could you not its just so beautiful in a almost surreal way kinda like a fog or fever dream

the story of these two and their work really hits home for me and, im sure, for many artists who strive for perfection in their craft. thanks for showing this to us.