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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.

"Just an ordinary day at an old mysterious Turkish country house where its residents have an extraordinary way of brewing tea." Tavsan Kani (Rabbit Blood) is a 5-min animated dark-comedy short film, produced at SVA New York as my MFA thesis film. Story of the film comes from an old Turkish idiom and it shows the harmony between different social classes in Ottoman times and lets us compare it with the current life of Turkish society. It had its world premiere at Athens Animfest and national premiere at Istanbul International Film Festival.

父亲教儿子识字，通过讲解象形文字说明中国文字的起源。影片借用三十六个活动的象形文字，讲述了一个有趣的故事：红“日”蓝天，远“山”近“水” ，“鸟”在飞翔，“象”在吸水，“森”“林”“草”地，一片翠绿。“夫”骑着“马”儿，穿“竹”林，过“田”野。突然，“夫”从“马”上摔下，“马”跑了，“夫”用“刀”砍“木”，造一“舟”，大“象”将“夫”卷入“舟”中，将“舟”推下了“水”，“水”中有“鱼”。“夫”撒“网”捕“鱼”，“鱼”逃走。空中飞过“燕”子，“日”边出现乌“云”，“云”儿飘移，下起“雨”来，“夫”便用“伞”遮雨。忽而“舟”翻，“夫”落入水中，浪将“夫”推到“石”上，“夫”用“火”取暖。此时，一“龟”游来，驮起“夫”，“夫”又回到“舟”上。“夫”随小“鸟”的引导前行，见一“虎”正追一“鹿”、一“猪”和一“叟”，“夫”拉“弓”射箭，“虎”即死去。“叟”进入“舍”内，将一只“羊”送给“夫”，“夫”牵“羊”来到河边，地上有“花”，又见一小“虎”在哭。“夫”设法将“虎”、“羊”、“花”运到对岸。这时“夫”才想起跑掉的“马”，便吹口哨，“马”又回到“夫”身旁。“夫”带着一大批动物，让它们回到“森”林，“夫”回到家，“门”里出来一“犬”一“子”，后又出来一“女”子，夫将“花”插在“女”的头上。“子”高兴地喊道：“爸爸给妈妈戴花喽！”此时，天空出现一弯明“月”。本片于1986年获南斯拉夫第七届萨格勒布国际动画电影节教育片奖。

从小痴迷于研究雾隐门的罗刹镇捕头周同，原本和罗刹镇父母官县令周守义过着太平日子，不料却被镇中乡绅之子贾明与父亲贾有为联手设计陷害，使得周同父亲蒙冤入狱，周同侥幸逃脱途中偶遇奄奄一息的雾隐门天老，天老濒死之际将体内的“甲”传给周同，周同想凭借“甲”的力量救出父亲，却眼睁睁看着父亲被妖人毕方害死。周同被雾隐门救走，并跟随雾隐门学习奇门技法顺利通过入门仪式。就在雾隐门人要帮助周同取甲的时候，周同独自找到毕方想要为父报仇，却被毕方生生抽出身体内所有的“甲”，好友小跳蚤也因其牺牲，失败后的周同万念俱灰。毕方得逞后要将雾隐门的远古基地覆灭，雾隐门人不惜一切代价阻拦妖人毕方，危机时刻周同顿悟明白自身的责任担当，勇于直面危险不再逃避，当他顿悟之时，能力竟然奇迹般地回到了他身上，周同最终利用奇门遁甲的强大力量，从毕方手中救下雾隐门人，挽救了这次危机。