Every time an institution or a media representative announces a list of 10, 50 or 100 best films made in a certain period of time or simply ever, a sceptic in my head takes over. It is not really that I am a rebel questioning the choices for the sake of denying authorities as I may even agree with some of them.
However, there is another category of the best of lists created rather by individuals, hence the main criteria seems to be their subjective point of view. There is no place for democratic revision as details on the list stay a matter of individual choice and taste. And it is good or bad - again, it depends on a point of view.
Boguslaw Zmudzinski and Raoul Servais Agree on Complicated Selection Process
Organisers of the 17th Etiuda and Anima 2010 Film Festival in cooperation with Polish chapter of International Animated Film Association (ASIFA) decided to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the respectable institution by selecting the best 50 short animated films made in the course of the past half-century. The whole idea came from Boguslaw Zmudzinski, who is the festival's Artistic Director.
In agreement with Raoul Servais, a legendary Belgian animator and a President of ASIFA for many years, Zmudzinski invited 25 experts and industry professionals from all over the world to take part in the plebiscite. Each of them initially listed 100 titles made between 1960 and 2010 that deserve, in their opinion, a mention. Further complicated process of summing up scores and eliminating losers (!) allowed the final 50 to emerge.
Why Is Tale of Tales the Best Animation of All Time
I can definitely say I appreciate selections made by specialists and professionals from the industry, especially from the industry of animation. If a significant number of them contribute to the plebiscite and each of them stands for their point of view, while their choices and the scores are summed up, then the outcome makes sense and becomes credible.
It becomes representative for the industry, thus relatively objective. Only then Tale of Tales is respected for much more than its creator's long-lasting-work-in-progress trademark, which amazes every time it appears in media. Above all, the film gets high scores of aesthetic and technique nature accepted in the industry as a norm.
X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing Make Us Feel as Experts
A question arises, however, whether or not we, the audience, still need such the best of lists. Is it not simply professing the very old idea of intruded reading-lists with the only correct and advisable interpretation in the air? Do we have not the right to our own the best of lists? Is it not that the audience get expertise only by the fact they sit and watch and like something or not? We watch programmes like Strictly Come Dancing or The X-Factor and happily vote for our favourites and judge their skills, very often not having any experience of dance nor singing.
I am leaving these questions open, though personally I am a great fan of initiatives being the main subject of this text (no matter how wide the margin of relativity for the final scores is). Perhaps the best of lists are simply a decent guideline for those who have just been introduced to animation and do not really know where to start from.
However, there is another category of the best of lists created rather by individuals, hence the main criteria seems to be their subjective point of view. There is no place for democratic revision as details on the list stay a matter of individual choice and taste. And it is good or bad - again, it depends on a point of view.
Boguslaw Zmudzinski and Raoul Servais Agree on Complicated Selection Process
Organisers of the 17th Etiuda and Anima 2010 Film Festival in cooperation with Polish chapter of International Animated Film Association (ASIFA) decided to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the respectable institution by selecting the best 50 short animated films made in the course of the past half-century. The whole idea came from Boguslaw Zmudzinski, who is the festival's Artistic Director.
In agreement with Raoul Servais, a legendary Belgian animator and a President of ASIFA for many years, Zmudzinski invited 25 experts and industry professionals from all over the world to take part in the plebiscite. Each of them initially listed 100 titles made between 1960 and 2010 that deserve, in their opinion, a mention. Further complicated process of summing up scores and eliminating losers (!) allowed the final 50 to emerge.
Why Is Tale of Tales the Best Animation of All Time
I can definitely say I appreciate selections made by specialists and professionals from the industry, especially from the industry of animation. If a significant number of them contribute to the plebiscite and each of them stands for their point of view, while their choices and the scores are summed up, then the outcome makes sense and becomes credible.
It becomes representative for the industry, thus relatively objective. Only then Tale of Tales is respected for much more than its creator's long-lasting-work-in-progress trademark, which amazes every time it appears in media. Above all, the film gets high scores of aesthetic and technique nature accepted in the industry as a norm.
X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing Make Us Feel as Experts
A question arises, however, whether or not we, the audience, still need such the best of lists. Is it not simply professing the very old idea of intruded reading-lists with the only correct and advisable interpretation in the air? Do we have not the right to our own the best of lists? Is it not that the audience get expertise only by the fact they sit and watch and like something or not? We watch programmes like Strictly Come Dancing or The X-Factor and happily vote for our favourites and judge their skills, very often not having any experience of dance nor singing.
I am leaving these questions open, though personally I am a great fan of initiatives being the main subject of this text (no matter how wide the margin of relativity for the final scores is). Perhaps the best of lists are simply a decent guideline for those who have just been introduced to animation and do not really know where to start from.
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