Star Dust
- 1973
- 9m
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This animation is an audio-visual expression of the aims and visions of that Socialist time in space.
Here is a marvelous dreamy and mysterious SF animation Star Dust from 1973 by Bulgarian cartoonist Proiko Proikov (1927-2000), one of the masters of East Bloc animation who graduated in the "painting" department in the class of Professor Iliya Petrov at National Art Academy "Nikolay Pavlovich", Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. The Cosmos behind the adventures of this little cosmonaut functions like a gigantic series of paintings that you can get lost in. With each sequence, the tiny cosmonaut in his little UFO is traveling deeper along the spiraling blues of increasing depth and pulsating orbs. His planetary landings and mishaps are all about color and resonance. We could even say that this was psychedelia in the Socialist bloc, where no psychedelia was supposed to exist because building Socialism was supposed to be psychedelic enough. This type of animation blends very easily with the well-known monumental mosaics that used to grace neighborhood complexes, Mathematics Institutes or Houses of Pioneers - because of its medium and original destination it is set apart from those public artworks. This animation is an audio-visual expression of the aims and visions of that Socialist time in space. What I like about this delicate and full-of-wonder Bulgarian Star Dust animation is that it lacks the heroic or Promethean quality as well as the underlying agonistic message of the "Man against Nature" monumental art (and much of cosmist thought) that we are generally used to. It is a smaller artwork, one could say in the 'minor' genre of animation - specifically made for a youthful audience or festivals. The adventures it depicts are much less grandiose in terms of achievements or expected results. It is also completely playful, naive, fragile and entrancing.
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- megatronorama
- Jan 12, 2024
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