Tribute to Phil Mulloy
L’Étrange Festival had to pay tribute to this animation genius who prematurely passed away last July 10th. Mulloy, who was an immense experimental British animator, imposed a unique visual style with its Chinese skeleton shadow figures, with the background sceneries showing through their empty eye sockets.. He used animation as a vast satirical canvas, fearlessly skewering social injustice, bourgeois hypocrisy, religion, all of human nature’s flaws.
He will be missed.
Goodbye Mister Christie
Phil Mulloy
- 2010
- United Kingdom
- 1h17mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Following his anthology The Christies, this first feature film by the filmmaker, is the second installment of a trilogy about this typical bourgeois British family, hiding its degeneration beneath their posh veneer.
Sentimental outbursts, subtitled barkings of the dog, insults by the patriarch: the synthetic robotic voices, toneless and without expression, somewhere between Laurie Anderson and a Philip Glass opera, contribute to the strange anguishing and repetitive atmosphere evoking contemporary sanitization pushed to a hellish degree. With his French sailor’s whistling that attracts every member of the family into his bed, Mulloy sort of signs his own Theorem. Sea, Sex and God: Mulloy, whose cruelty reigns supreme, has no taboos, vomiting universal obscenity through his characters, each of them more repulsive than the last.
Credits
- Voiceover by : Phil Mulloy
- Screenplay : Phil Mulloy
- Photography : Phil Mulloy
- Editing : Sui Devan
- Music by : Gary Challenger
- Production : Spectre Films
