Ubu is a 20 minute long animated version of Alfred Jarry’s 1896 play Ubu Roi. It won a lot of international awards at the time. Jerky splashy black ink line on white background with primary colour elements. The dialogue is a kind of guttural growling noise, no words, some speach bubbles. It’s violent… a bit like Ralph Steadman or Gerald Scarfe but much simpler. At least that’s how I remember it because despite searching the usual suspects I couldn’t find it. No film on YouTube. No DVD, no book on Amazon. No VHS on Ebay. I followed the contact link on Dunbar’s site and he wrote back – it’s available on DVD direct from him for £30 (comes with his other French film Lautrec).
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Posted: September 4th, 2009
© Apropos 2009
© Apropos 2009
Been searching for this for 12 years also – or is that the rarer Hans Lenica TV anim 1975 version I wanted ? I didnt find that either – any ideas ? let me know
Good detective workwith G.D !
have set this as a student project for many years – with great results – Posters
its a great play and concept to visualise and there are some excellent original woodcuts for it ( poster ) and cover of the play etc )
Borowczyk and Lenica were incredible
1975 “Ubu Roi [King Ubu]” – medium-length animated TV cartoon based on Alfred Jarry’s play “Ubu Roi ou les polonais”, West Germany. Marcin Giżycki considered it “one of the best and the most profound adaptations” of Jarry’s play. “It is … a text which allowed Lenica to fully display his particular catastrophism in combination with humour and irony, to express his suspicion of big politics, big utopias and big words”.
from http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_lenica_jan
cheers MACK