11/8/2022 0 Comments Parasite city all death animations![]() ![]() On another occasion, Parasite devised the means to transfer the powers of the hero Air Wave to the young hero's adversary Casey Jones temporarily. Gaining sizable intellect from his multiple encounters with Superman, Parasite devised the means to reanimate dormant plant remains left behind from the Earth-Two supervillain Solomon Grundy, creating a newer and stronger version of the creature to plague his adversary. Despite this, he had knowledge of his foe's alter ego and often used this to attack Clark Kent. ![]() The Parasite made a number of reappearances before the Crisis, yet he never successfully found a means to permanently defeat Superman. ![]() Despite these abilities, the Parasite became depressed because he could no longer embrace his wife and children. On one occasion, while attempting to absorb a greater portion of his adversary's powers than previously, his body disintegrated for a period of time due to the pressure in his cells. Touching Superman would instantly absorb a sizable fraction of his superhuman powers (it was established early on that he is not capable of acquiring the whole of Superman's powers). Any time he touched someone, he could absorb their physical and mental properties. Wrongly believing that the company payrolls were hidden in storage containers, Jensen opened one and was bombarded with energies from biohazard materials (which was actually waste collected by Superman when he traveled into outer space), which transformed him into a purple skinned, parasitic entity, and thus he became the Parasite. With the aesthetic partly inspired by an illustrated poster of decaying rubbish Stejskalová purchased from IKEA, the filmmaker reveals “the beauty of decay itself” was also motivation for the look, admitting that she’s fascinated with “how pretty mold can look and how lovely flowering rust can be”.Raymond Maxwell Jensen was a lowlife who got a job as a plant worker for a research center. Attracted to stop-motion because of the “magical” qualities of bringing an inanimate object to life – much like the parasite does in the story (not that I’m calling stop-motion animators parasites, of course!) – the animation adds a tangible element to this otherworldly tale. If the premise is one part of why the film is so appealing, the other main attraction here is the wonderful craft that brings the unusual universe to the screen. For a film centred around death and decay, there’s a great deal of life in Stejskalová’s short, with the resonating takeaway all about how finding that perfect partner can set you free. Adding that her story is one focused on “being different” and that desire to find a soulmate who accepts you for who you are, parasite or not. “My first inspiration was a theme of duality, or schizophrenia and the isolation and loneliness that comes with it”, she explains. It’s that unusual premise that is one of the main appeals of Love Is Just a Death Away, it’s such a fantastical storyline, we just had to ask Stejskalová how she came up with the idea. The parasite controls its decaying host from its cockpit cavity within the skull. It’s a surprisingly relatable tale, considering the bizarre scenario. As the story evolves, we soon discover that all this organism wants is company, something to share its existence with, and after failed attempts with a rat and a pack of cockroaches, an unexpected happy ending is just around the corner. As the dog stares upon the body of the bird – now dead after flying into a lamppost – the audience is transported through its milky-white pupil and into the cavity beyond, where the parasite lives and controls its host. Introducing us to its reanimated canine as it protects a wounded bird on its landfill home, Stejskalová’s short reveals the real protagonist of its story as it pops out of the dog’s eye socket to retrieve a dangling eyeball. Set in a rubbish dump, where a parasite desperate for friendship inhabits the corpse of a dead dog, this 10-minute animation may be visibly rotten on its surface, but it’s surprisingly sweet at its core. At work, riding the bus, online…love can be found in some strange places, but tales of companionship and finding that someone special don’t come much weirder than Bára Anna Stejskalová’s stop-motion short Jsme si o smrt blíž (Love Is Just a Death Away). ![]()
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