Asparagus

Zac Weber

A headspin of hypnotizing surrealist images. The entire animation is incredibly intricate and mysteriously abstruse at times. Imagine describing this short film to someone who is unfamiliar with this type of artistry: "Well it starts with a woman whose feces takes the form of psychedelic asparagus..."

Kelvane

Awesome. The domestic landscape is described with a wacky, dreamscape logic (as in Eraserhead by Lynch) to lend every physical object a philosophic and psychologic window toward interpretation.

El Biffo

I watched this a couple of times but I think I need to see at at least once more. Asparagus was paired with Eraserhead at midnight shows in theaters and it's a nice tidbit to add to any evening's screening.

Ghostman

Asparagus is one of the best shorts I've ever seen and a magnificent experimental film. Made by utilizing and combining rotoscoping and stop motion, it's a clever and immensely creative work and it's truly inspiring to watch. I'll have to see it again to write more.

EdieEmm

It’s there in that first 10 seconds - free jazz burlesque. Wildly vibrant, fiercely femin(ine/ist) animation. Bold, shamelessly transgressive, almost punk. Who is this faceless subversive masked woman w/ her magic carpetbag of tricks and perversely voluptuous living space? Pandora in the street; Aphrodite in the sheets? (Also in the, uh, garden. Because nature/creation?) Asparagus the veg, however? Forever tainted.

Lynch/Fellini

A trippy and surreal piece that features some of the most gorgeous hand drawn animation I have ever seen!

Stefan Drees

A crazy film with an intriguing score composed by Richard Teitelbaum, a rarely know pioneer of electronic and computer music.

tres-bien

The first time I saw Asparagus was in a bar, projected onto the back wall as a sort of soundless backdrop to the revelry. Rewatching it now, I find that the addition of the score adds a slightly more sinister or introspective undertone to the surreal and sexually suggestive imagery. The facelessness of the protagonist seems to suggest a loss of subjectivity. However, I find it best experienced without overthinking.