We Are The Strange is a bewildering movie about a lost animé girl and a little doll boy questing for ice-cream, in a dream-scape full of evil monsters and giant robots. But the plot is not the point.
The movie in an animation, filmed entirely from old computers and broken toys. The creator, who calls himself mdotstrange, undoubtedly has a wild imagination and a nice touch for disturbing imagery. Throw in all the visuals and sounds derived from old tech, and the result is a paean to 8-bit computing. It draws furiously on sounds and graphics styles of that era, with the sporadic dialogue is as unhinged as any badly-translated Japanese classic of the time.
It is an audio-visual attack, relentless, nonsensical and wonderfully compulsive, and it’s garnered mdotstrange a bunch of awards. It’s not easy viewing — and at 1h 25m, it’s one hell of a piece of animation for a solo creator to produce — but it is genuinely fascinating, evocative and, yes, very, VERY strange.
This is the English version; mdotstrange has subtitled versions in sixteen different languages, including hacker Leet Speak, over at his youtube video page.
Part 1:
Part 2:
0 Responses
Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.