- Description:
- BluRay - Zone B.   viewing copy.   2 videodiscs of 2.
- Notes:
- In 2001, writer-director Richard Linklater released a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed early features SLACKER and BEFORE SUNRISE. taking its cue from their walk-and-talk stream of consciousness, WAKING LIFE enquired into the relationship between dreams and the big screen.
Supplemental materials: commentary by director Richard Linklater, art director Bob Sabiston, actor Wiley Wiggens, and producer Tommy Pallotta, commentary by the animation team; making-of featurette, complete with crew interviews; theatrical trailer; pre-animation live action footage; deleted and alternative animation sequences; trivia subtitle track written by Linklater; reversible sleeve featuring original poster and newly commissioned artwork.
Titles
+ Waking Life
- Director:
- Linklater, Richard
- Production Co:
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Running Time:
- Feature.   101 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - DTS-HD Master Audio
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2001
- Language:
- English language with optional English subtitles for hard-of-hearing
- Genre:
- Drama, Fantasy, Animation
- Notes:
- Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ God’s Little Monkey
- Director:
- Sabiston, Bob
- Production Co:
- Flat Black Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1994
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- This abbreviated short, though never finished, got into Siggraph’s Electronic Theater for 1994. An early Bob Sabiston animated work.
+ The Trees
- Director:
- Sabiston, Bob
- Production Co:
- Flat Black Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1991
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- An animated short about recycling.
+ Project Incognito
- Director:
- Sabiston, Bob
- Production Co:
- Flat Black Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1997
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Animation, Documentary
- Notes:
- Flat Black Films’ rotoscoping software was originally developed for an MTV contest. PROJECT INCOGNITO is 34 animated interviews with random people encountered in NY’s Washington Square Park.
+ Color Test
- Director:
- Sabiston, Bob
- Production Co:
- Flat Black Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1998
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Color test for animation by Bob Sabiston.
+ Snack and Drink
- Director:
- Sabiston, Bob
- Production Co:
- Flat Black Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1999
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- In this short film, filmmakers Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pallotta accompany Ryan, a six-foot-tall, 13-year-old autistic boy, to a local convenience store to purchase a “snack and drink”.
+ Figures of Speech
- Director:
- Sabiston, Bob
- Production Co:
- Independent Television Service
- Running Time:
- Short.   31 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1999
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Animation, Documentary
- Notes:
- In 1999, Bob Sabiston got a contract from ITVS to make a series of animated short documentaries in the vein of Snack and Drink. The twelve segments of Figures of Speech feature subjects interviewed in Austin and on the road between there and San Francisco.
+ Ryan’s Capitol Tour
- Director:
- Sabiston, Bob
- Production Co:
- Flat Black Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1999
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Ryan gives a tour of the Capitol in Austin, Texas.
+ Grasshopper
- Director:
- Sabiston, Bob
- Production Co:
- Flat Black Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2003
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Documentary, Animation
- Notes:
- In Grasshopper, park-bench philosopher AJ Vadehra expounds on astrology and more productive avenues of contemplation. Done all in grey-green, this animated but otherwise unedited interview is a good example of what happens when you approach the right stranger with a camera.
+ The Even More Fun Trip
- Director:
- Sabiston, Bob
- Production Co:
- Flat Black Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   23 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo 2.0
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2007
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Ryan Power is back and he means business. This second trip to Fiesta Texas is done ride-by-ride “just like last time.” Thrill to the psychedelic sights and sounds of a Texas theme park as you are slowly worn down by the implacable will of this young man. Ryan previously appeared in our short Snack and Drink and the ‘unreleased’ Ryan’s Capitol Tour. He also shows up briefly in Waking Life (as an alien leaving Earth).