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Clip description
The Long Yard can be viewed here in its entirety. Through a series of flashback sequences, a hospitalised man recalls two vehicular accidents that he has been involved in.
Curator’s notes
The film uses traditional 2D hand-drawn animation techniques comprising mainly monochromatic tones and black-and-white line drawings. The animation creates a seamless metamorphosis of imagery and place: for example, the sealed highway is transposed into a dirt road in Korea, and the red eyes of the bullock on the highway become the red lights of medical equipment in the hospital.
In a contrasting sequence, the rapid montage of a soldier’s photographs suggests flashes of Bob Parker’s war memories. Meanwhile, past and present merge through the superimposition of the man’s hand inserting a cassette into the car’s tape deck over the image of a telegram informing his parents that he is missing in action in Korea. The repeated voice-over of the hospital doctor grounds the film in the present.
