first the confession: my name is saad. and i dont give a fuck

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GREAT CARTOONS PART 555555555555

Okay. So.
Today's post is dedicated to Eurasia and the wonderful things that have come out of it.

Of all the places on earth, Russia probably has the weirdest animation industry. Remember that "Worker & Parasite" joke on the Simpsons? With the weird Itchy and Scratchy? Well thats actually pretty accurate.
Of course alot of Russian animation is animated ALOT better than that. Anyways.

We have a few Russian flash artists on Newgrounds (most people know kolbelov and skarydoll by this point) and see the kind of mindbending stuff they and the rest of KOMS.RU guys make. But that is, quite literally the tip of the iceberg.
Russia's animation industry isnt nearly as commercial as most other places, and so there's a swell of independent animation there.

Anyway.

First is some films by Ivan Maximov (whose cartoons I love dearly).
He was born in 1958, he started making cartoons in 1989, and still makes them. And they are all GREAT. This guy manages to tell very cute and sometimes hilariously perverse stories pretty much all without the use of speaking.

So here is a big ol pile of them

From left to right
student film

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Rain Down from Above (2007)
an adorable natural disaster

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Slow Bistro
an odd musical cartoon about the time between placing an order and receiving one's meal at a poor restaurant

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Wind Along the East Coat (2003)
another adorable natural disaster (contains fish milking)

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Strings
odd film about how relationships are defined by small strings tying little characters together

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Provincial School
anyone who's been to a public jr. high school should identify with this

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Tonnelage
About two prisoners. One trying to escape via a tunnel.

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Blue Pool
Now this is NOT by Maximov. Its by someone who worked with him on one of his films. But you can see the influence in her work. I think this is about evolution in a way.

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This next film is by Igor Kovalyov
Hypn-eroto-machia

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Rinat Gazizov made this film I'm sure alot of college animation students have seen at least once.
Midnight Games.

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Whats odd about Midnight Games is that it reminds me alot of the Dark Light film by Jan Svankmajer, who works alot with stop motion animation, and whom I promised someone I'd post some of his films in this post as well.

Now Jan is not russian he is from the Czech Republic.

anyway here's that film I just mentioned

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This is my personal favorite film by Jan. BREAKFAST (hello tyrannosaurus alan).
Its part of a trilogy of films he made. Which includes Lunch and Dinner of course. They use the animation type known as pixelation where humans and real life objects are animated with stop motion. It also used a bit of claymation as well.

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Meat Love
meat...love

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A long time ago Svankmajer also made his own version of Alice in Wonderland. Its very grim. Alot of puppets made out of animal skeletons. The White Rabbit is an actual stuffed taxidermist rabbit for example.
Here's a scene from that. Some video stores carry this movie on dvd. I know mine does.

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And here's a rare 2d animation by him

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And now to end this post, THE COOKIE CARNIVAL
great old silly symphonies cartoon. props to B-cube

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and thats it for this week