Badass Manifesto
2016 · 2m · USA
Directed by Ben Crouse, Jacob Sluka
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: absurdist, humorous, provocative
A short animated film by the Grossbus Animation duo (Ben Crouse and Jacob Sluka), working in their characteristic crude-digital aesthetic to deliver some kind of manifesto, presumably badass in nature.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Ben Crouse and Jacob Sluka (who go by Grossbus) have made a manifesto. It is badass. They do this in under two minutes using animation that looks like it was made in 2003 on a lunch break. The ugliness is mandatory.
Ninety-five seconds of Grossbus Animation in their crude-digital register — at that length the deliberately ugly aesthetic is more a stance than a sustained argument, and 'manifesto' framing is doing a lot of conceptual work.
95 seconds of Grossbus Animation's deliberately ugly lo-fi register applied to the 'manifesto' form. Page is essentially blank past the title. The duration is in its favor; everything else is unknown.