Very nice, very nice
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Very nice, very nice |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 7 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Lipsett |
| production |
Tom Daly Colin Low |
Very Nice, Very Nice is a 1961 Canadian experimental short film directed by Arthur Lipsett .
action
The film is a collage of sound fragments and images that are partially combined or ironically refuted. They show everyday life, but also advertising and celebrity shots as well as the explosion of an atomic bomb. The recurring element is clapping hands, followed by the statement “Bravo! Very nice, very nice. ”Critics found that the film“ conjures up a world full of information and images, but one that is poor in meaning and filled with longing ”.
production
Very Nice, Very Nice was the directorial debut of Arthur Lipsett (1936-1986), who had worked as an animator for the National Film Board of Canada since 1958 . The film is made up of fragments from advertising films, documentaries, but above all recordings that the NFB had sorted out. The quickly cut film fragments - mostly still images - are underlaid by a sound collage that consisted of the remnants of tapes collected in the NFB's editing room in the summer of 1961. It also marked the beginning of Lipsett's work on film, as the film recordings were put together after the soundtrack was cut. He himself said that the film was originally just a sound experiment. The total cost of the film was around $ 500.
Awards
Very Nice, Very Nice was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Film in 1962 .
Web links
- Very Nice, Very Nice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Detailed presentation and interpretation of the film on synoptique.ca
Individual evidence
- ↑ "it evokes a world swamped with information and imagery but barren of meaning and filled with longing" Cf. Arthur Lipsett on The Canadian Encyclopedia, February 15, 2012.
- ↑ Cf. Very Nice, Very Nice on films2013.dok-leipzig.de ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Baker: From Dots-and-Loops to Cut-and-Paste. Arthur Lipsett's "Very Nice, Very Nice" . synoptique.ca
- ^ Lois Siegel: A Clown Outside the Circus . In: Cinema Canada , October 1986.
