Going West, where books come to life.
November 26, 2016 8:59 AM   Subscribe

Going West is a short stop-motion film by Anderson M Studios for the New Zealand Book Council. Based on Maurice Gee's novel of the same name, it uses paper cut from the actual book to highlight an excerpt in stunning detail.
posted by Room 641-A (4 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 
I paused Oliveros's Beautiful Soop to watch this and it was like a visual continuation of her piece.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:15 AM on November 26, 2016 [1 favorite]


Now both make me want to play Kentucky Route Zero.
posted by Room 641-A at 9:45 AM on November 26, 2016


And the description of that game makes me think of Terry Bisson's "Over Flat Mountain," which would be good with either soundtrack.

Amazing paper-cutting in the film, and so dense that it's eminently re-watchable.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:11 AM on November 26, 2016 [2 favorites]


Wow. Of all the things I didn't expect to see here, it's Going West. I read it for the first time over the summer before starting 7th form, and then again several times while at university, and though I haven't read the book again in maybe 18 or 19 years, that passage (the railway journey in from West Auckland) was apparently etched into my memory, maybe because my old high school gets a shoutout. Though I can't tell you what happened to the rugby balls that got kicked into the quarry dug by the inmates of Mt Eden prison either. By the time I was there, the quarry had been reincarnated as the school's "lower playing fields," where we ran bare foot over the puriri berries and twigs on frosty mornings (the PE teachers were uniformly tyrants) and where (on the fields adjacent to the prison) I played five years' worth of hockey matches, sliding and skinning my knees all over the harsh, sand-based surface.

Going West; the book's just a storehouse of concentrated Auckland memories and landscapes, human and otherwise. I need to read it again.
posted by Sonny Jim at 11:58 AM on November 26, 2016 [7 favorites]


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