Play Jazz

As these are both short films by Furukawa Taku, it stands to reason that they are similar. But these two share more similarities to each other than to Taku's hand-drawn narratives or his color and light experiments. While I'm no expert, Mac and Play Jazz seem to be early attempts at computer-drawn animation. They date from the mid-eighties, and boy do they look it. Each is essentially a random sequence of pixel-y, poorly rendered figures and abstract shapes. They look like the art I made as a young kid on an Apple IIC. Or in other words, they both have a slight case of eye-cancer. Both also have western background music, one of their more redeeming features. Play Jazz has a jaunty jazz number, as expected, and Mac features a wordless rendition of Singin' in the Rain. read more