porcelainbonesandstrawberrymilk:

Bobby Yeah (short; Robert Morgan, 2011)

Robert Morgan’s intensely creepy stop-motion animation work, which I wasn’t aware of before Mitch Davis took the stage to introduce the outrageous BOBBY YEAH, remains one of my favorite discoveries of this year’s Fantasia. Morgan’s latest short—which played in front of SAINT, of all things—blew my mind, insuring I’d never sleep again…or dare look at stop-motion in the same light. Dark, dense and extremely well-made, the four-years-in-the-making experimental work tells the story of its mischievous titular character and the terrifying consequences of curiosity. After stealing a disgusting wormlike creature from God-knows-where, Bobby (as is rightfully assumed from the title, considering the whole film is dialogue-free) finds a red button on the creature, which, when pressed, triggers a horrifying transformation…which in turn spawns new monsters with more buttons to press. Bobby, motivated by a delightful cartoon curiosity, can’t resist the urge to keep pushing the buttons, unleashing further explosions of claymation body horror…

Structured like a downward spiral into madness, BOBBY YEAH is set in a kaleidoscopic world which furthers Morgan’s fascination with body as abject object and physical transformations (going as far as showcasing creatures made out of what I only assume—but most probably—are hundreds of fingernail clippings), as well as his characteristic twisting of spaces, creating another isolated character seemingly living in an inward world of his own fabrication. Slime and sexual suggestion cohabit in this monstrously skin-crawling realm, and amusement leads to horror and back again, as each scenario put in motion by Bobby’s button-pushing unleashes a creation speaking to our natural, culturally ingrained aversion to alien bodies, shapes and impure textures—from genitalia to tentacles, organs to nail clippings, which the creatures all suggest and exhibit to varying degrees.

Nightmarish in the best way possible, BOBBY YEAH is a 23-minute adventure I will never forget. For its pervasive horror, structure of infantile exploration, tackling of themes of morbid, deathly and self-sacrificing curiosity as well as its unbelievable visual bravura—known monstrous elements colliding with pure inventions, in a beautiful blue, purple and pink palette—this film stands out among Morgan’s impressive oeuvre as a major step forward and a unique piece of work in the landscape of experimental film and stop-motion animation as well. - via Fangoria: “Fantasia 2011: Short Film Highlights”

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    This looks so awful in a really gross/creepy/awesome way.
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    Bobby Yeah (short; Robert Morgan, 2011)
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    bobby yeah will be screening...few day’s after my birthday.. robert morgan
  12. angelicahasafeed said: but don`t forget, it`s also cute!
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