"Dimension Bomb" is a mindblowing, techno-sci-fi-psychedlia-run-amok short film directed by Koji Morimoto and is the last sequence in the anime anthology "Genius Party Beyond". He's also the guy who did the "Beyond" sequence in "The Animatrix", veeeery different in mood to this one, very lyrical and gentle, but an equally amazing piece. I saw a double feature of "Genius Party" and "Genius Party Beyond" at the Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival in 2008, great to see on the big screen, a lot of gems in both films, but "Dimension Bomb" was hands down my favourite ("Moondrive" was pretty funny too). I've been watching anime since I was a kid in the 70's (back when they were just plain ol' Japanese cartoons) and this is one of the best pieces of Japanese animation I've ever seen. Why oh why are these movies not available in North America?????
And speaking of great anime that's not available here, I recently discovered the work of Masaaki Yuasa. The few clips online of his stuff - the movie Mindgame and the tv series Kemonozume and Kaiba - are head and shoulders over most of the generic stuff out there. Why a snoozefest like "Sky Crawlers" (a movie about fighter pilots that has no dogfights in it) gets a big DVD release in North America but Yuasa's stuff is not even available here is beyond me. His very rough, very kinetic style has a very unique sensibility and a great handmade quality to it. Even this children's clip is amazing, no subtitles, no idea what it is, but it's crazy fun.
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