Bowwow, Sad Toy Dogs
2013 · 3m · Australia
Directed by Wendy Vainity
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: absurdist, dark, darkly comic
Crude 3D-animated toy dogs rendered in uncanny-valley register, moving with robotic autotuned sadness — internet outsider art.
Picked by Felix
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Internet outsider art made by someone described as the 'Henry Darger of the Internet' — deeply broken toy dog animation that isn't trying to be weird, which makes it infinitely weirder.
Vainity's outsider 3D animation achieves uncanniness through naivety rather than technique — the 'Henry Darger of the internet' framing is the only one that makes sense. Three minutes of pure autotuned canine sadness; either you accept the register or you don't.
Outsider 3D animation that gets called "the Henry Darger of the Internet" — uncanniness through naivety rather than technique. Three minutes; that's either everything or nothing, and I lean toward everything.