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What is The Animatrix?
It is an ultra-futuristic, mind-bending experience that features nine animated short films, created in the anime style pioneered by Japanese animation artists, to be released as a collection on DVD and VHS by Warner Home Video (WHV) June 3, 2003. These feature-quality short animated films, each between six and seventeen minutes long, tell new stories set in the revolutionary world of The Matrix, the groundbreaking virtual reality action thrillers created by writers-directors Andy and Larry Wachowski, and the highly anticipated second and third chapters in their film trilogy, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Viewers of The Animatrix will learn new details of the genesis of The Matrix, and meet new characters whose adventures are inter-woven with the fabric of the feature films.
The Animatrix is also a bold experiment in "shared world" storytelling, in which the Wachowski Brothers pay tribute to one of the pop culture sources that fired their own cinematic imaginations, the uniquely Japanese genre of animated futurism known as "anime." The film brings together some of the most respected and innovative veterans of Japan's flourishing and globally popular animation industry and turns them loose in the Wachowskis’ teeming fictional universe.
Also recruited for the project were two U.S.-based directors, Peter Chung (Aeon Flux) and Andy Jones (Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within), whose work has been strongly influenced by anime.
The Animatrix is the end result of more than three years of close collaboration between the Wachowski Brothers and a group of master animators working in studios in Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. All of the directors of The Animatrix episodes were personally selected by the brothers, who wrote four of the episodes and supervised the production closely, from first concepts to post-production.
Episodes Directed by Peter Chung, Andy Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike Mahiro Maeda, Koji Morimoto, Shinichiro Watanabe
Special Features
9 x Animatrix features
The Second Renaissance Part 1 Commentary by Mahiro Maeda
The Second Renaissance Part 2 Commentary by Mahiro Maeda
Audio Commentary by Yoshiaki Kawajiri
World Record Commentary by Takeshi Koike
Scrolls to Screen: The History and Culture of Anime RT
Production Technique
Making the Second Renaissance 1 and 11
Making the Program
Making World Record RT
Making Kid’s Story and Detective Story RT
Making Beyond RT
Making Matriculated RT
Making Final Flight of Osiris RT
Enter the Matrix: In the Making RT
Enter the Matrix Game Trailer
B Level Rom
Dolby 5.1
Subtitles for the hearing impaired
Support for the DVD ROM version of this DVD is available at http://player.interactual.com/help/support/
Product Details
Region: 4 (Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central and South America)
Distributor: Roadshow
Cat. No: R-103848-9
Barcode: 9398710384895
SRP: 39.95
Running Time: 88mins
Rating: M15+
Classification: (MEDIUM LEVEL VIOLENCE)
Genre: Animated
Category: Movies : Animated
Release Date: 3/06/2003
Closed Caption: Yes
Director: Peter Chung/Andy Jones
Producer: Joel Silver
Writer: Larry and Andy Wachowski
Year of Production: 2003
Macrovision: No
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