{"id":15894,"date":"2026-03-19T14:57:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15894"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:23:25","slug":"thats-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15894","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0134639\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0134639\/\">Le ravissement de Frank N Stein<\/a> is a little art film made in 1982 before computer animation would have made the perspective drawing much easier. Today you could likely make this in an afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These sort of bizarre art films remind me of going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centrepompidou.fr\/en\/\">Centre Pompidou<\/a> in Paris. The top floor had lots of random video shorts like this. It&#8217;s interesting what gets considered &#8216;art&#8217; &#8211; and 99% of it is forgotten by the next year. Maybe that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re seeing the <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15167\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15167\">dramatic collapse of the art world<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One could point to the austere minimalism as an early form of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Backrooms\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Backrooms\">Backrooms<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/H4dGpz6cnHo?si=q03wRgELapAxTQWJ\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/H4dGpz6cnHo?si=q03wRgELapAxTQWJ\">the Backrooms<\/a> was inspired by the unease of liminal spaces and not this particular work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XmMyx2_4STg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le ravissement de Frank N Stein is a little art film made in 1982 before computer animation would have made the perspective drawing much easier. Today you could likely make this in an afternoon. These sort of bizarre art films remind me of going to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The top floor had lots of random video shorts like this. It&#8217;s interesting what gets considered &#8216;art&#8217; &#8211; and 99% of it is forgotten by the next year. 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