Barry Purves "Next"

[shinobts99]

remember Locomotion channel

[GMAN73ful]

Hark! A hit, a very palpable hit.

[Shiyaku93]

went to an animation workshop ran by Barry Purves last week and saw this. Sheer awesomeness.

[halianfromplanetzork]

I've seen Barry Purves himself last week, he was telling us at my uni about his work. His animations are brill, wish he could have stayed longer.

[vinx77]

@OwlEyesOO According to Wikipedia: "music by Stuart Gordon of The Korgis, John Sheaff and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp".

IMDB only mentions Stuart Gordon.

[Turtleheart]

@vinx77 His name is bigger than the others and in capitals, so I guesstimated that Gordon is the composer as such and the other three "Hautboys" are instrumentalists or synth programmers (I wrote both the IMDb entry and Wikipedia page: anything at either of those is just what I've been able to glean from the credits, which are amusingly thematic but difficult to work out what people actually did from).

[biotchgodless]

man i haven't seen this since i was a kid!

[aflovi]

he crunched shakesphere!!!!

[jmarkar]

Please, Barry... are these (Next, Screenplay, Rigoletto, etc) available in good DVD prints?  I feel so privileged to have met your "Shakespeare" at San Francisco State some 15 or so years ago when I took an animation course there. I've raved about this particular film for years to friends far and wide.

Thank you for the joy of your work...

Thanks for all your

[liltcan]

@jmarkar There is a DVD called 'His Intimate Lives' but I think its only available from Amazon France right now.

Rigoletto can be bought with the rest of the Opera Vox animations (though its definately the best of the bunch :P)

[Achilles544]

i've so enjoyed reading your reactions to this film.......would love to revisit Shakespeare and this sort of film again one day. Barry P

[Kloxboy]

I saw this on PBS many years ago, what a great piece, thanks for posting. :]

[omphalosceptic]

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" It's a quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

[mipiel28]

no lo entiendo exactamente...algo así como qué tontos son estos mortales??

if anybody understand what does he exactly say at the end, answer please

[lostsergei]

what does he say in the end ??

[fluffaholic]

It must be almost twenty years since I first saw this brilliant little film. Wonderful stuff!

[XUltra00]

fantastic

[elm421]

fantasia pura!!!!

[coramunroe]

This...is...pure...awesome!!!

[btoskich]

It doesn't get better than this.

[loSchermo]

Great genius......

[JerrySmith2]

So brilliant brings back beautiful mermories as a child, thanks so much for adding this!

[chyfilms]

i've met barry a couple of times. he comes to talk to us at uclan (uni) and teach us techniques. he's such a cool guy and loves his puppets...this is an amazing film..it always makes me laugh..

[andyrewblink182]

this is fantastic!

[portablemind2]

masterful

[physicals]

pretty cool i love the backround music

[mjwemdee]

I stayed with Barry in his house near Manchester once...I was working for a nearby theatre and he kindly let me stay for a couple of months. His apartment is magical...filled with all things theatrical with even a Rapunzel-type tower! He also let me see the 'Shakespeare' puppet as he had just finished making this film.

[catchthatrain]

funny and clever

[puschelhans]

It is a great work. Barry Purves is the good of animation.

[ffishfinger]

I remember watching this a lot as a kid, even though it scared me a bit. (all the ripping up the bodies.) I never understood it, but was always fascinated.

it really is an amazing peice, whoa. this is definitely one of the animations that got me into animation today!

[debilator]

это великолепно!!! просто потрясающе и невероятно красиво.

[katharinaart9]

I met Barry Purves in Brisbane in 1996 at an animation festival for uni. I absolutely love his work..stop motion is a dying art.. i left uni due to new technology taking over..and have been studying photography..mainly for lighting..hopefully animation brings me back to my roots.. katharina

[animegirl19791]

wow this brings me back a few years! i remember 02:22 used to always scare me as a little kid.

[CowsAndCrows]

at 4.45 i remember him saying 'the wing got caught and i couldnt unclip it' you can just see it flick a bit :)

[CowsAndCrows]

hes a great guy in real life too :) sadly he wasnt credited in peter jacksons King kong. :(

[amaysingsnake2236]

i first saw this when i was 5 years old. funnily enough, it inspired me to become an actor. love it!

[johnjosephosullivan]

I love this short but I dont recognise some of shakespeares plays, is there a list of the plays the pupet is performing in the order there bing performed.

[Hoddersrevenge]

The 5th one down in the related videos list lists all the plays depicted in order shown.

[garbarekw]

спасибо

thank you

[Jal8919536]

Oh, now we get it: we think this is an audition when in fact it's Heaven reviewing us. Another work by Barry Purves you might also enjoy is the dark "Rigoletto" on the "Operavox" video. Other Barry Purves works I'd like to see posted on YouTube are "Screen Play" and "Achilles" with the voice of Derek Jacobi.

[zzmyxazz]

bsolutely mgnificentA, thx :)

[zzmyxazz]

Absolutely magnieficent, thx :)