Horst in Translation ([email protected]) This is an over 40-year-old experimental movie by director Larry Jordan. He was already a prolific filmmaker when he came up with this, but still hadn't even reached the middle of his career. He was extremely prolific in the decades after and still made films until 2011. Now he is in his 80s and may have retired. This film here is really a pretty weird watch. I am usually not too big on experimental films, but this one at least sort of attracted my attention (nothing worse than indifference) and I wasn't entirely bored watching it, maybe because of the strange creatures or very bright colors. Still, as a whole I feel no interest to watch it again at some point or to check out other films by Jordan. So I cannot really recommend it. It certainly hurts that it's so unclear what is going on, even if that is frequently the case with these experimental movies. The 60s and 70s were a truly weird era for movies, especially short films. Watch something else.

MartinHafer I really wanted to like OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE. After all, I adore short animated films (particularly the non-commercial ones) and at first I was struck by the Terry Gilliam-like animation. However, as the film progressed, I became more and more and more bored by the whole thing. It just didn't make much sense and was not worth my time.When I say "Terry Gilliam-like", I am talking about the animations he did on "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Gilliam often took old pictures or paintings and cut them apart. Then, using stop-motion, he animated these pictures to tell bizarre and often anarchic stories. OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE uses similar techniques--mostly using 18th and 19th century engravings and paintings that have been cut out and animated. However, and here's the big difference, Gilliam's art was clever and interesting. The work here seems less sophisticated and dull.Overall, this will probably just make your head hurt and isn't terribly interesting.

AssetsonFire I found this a mildly intriguing, frustrating film. The 'plot' is as described in the synopsis, with engraved olde-style (presumably Victorian) cut-out characters such as astronauts-cum-deep-sea-divers and people with spheres for heads superimposed on engraved olde-style backgrounds coloured with black and alternating single other colours. Music and sound effects accompany the images, and there's a repeating 'buzzer' sound that interrupts, apparently at random and sometimes to comical effect, throughout.The most impressive part was probably near the end when the camera zooms through a series of scenes. Ultimately though, I could hardly make any sense of it.