Pink Swine!
Pink Swine!
| 01 January 1962 (USA)
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One of Lawrence Jordan's earliest animated films, PINK SWINE is an energetic and playful mix of various animation styles. Described as "an anti-art dada collage film," this free-form short presents cut-out images animated across old photos (a style picked up by Terry Gilliam a few years later) and found objects that dance to the beat of the rock-and-roll soundtrack. He produced this short during a summer spent with Joseph Cornell and Jordan edited the film entirely in camera, making the upbeat visual rhythm of this delightful lark even more impressive. –Sean Axmaker

Reviews
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Michael_Elliott Pink Swine! (1962) *** (out of 4) Fun mix of stop-motion as well as cut-out animation from director Larry Jordan with the song "I Saw Her Standing There" being played in the background. This is a pretty difficult film to describe as there's really not any plot but instead there are just a bunch of images edited together to mix with the song. The stop-motion stuff was quite nice as was the way the director would take a photo and film it as if it were moving but the really cool stuff happens with the cut-out animation, which is basically a bunch of objects cut out of paper and we see them move around. There's certainly nothing too ground-breaking here but fans of the bizarre should enjoy it.