Dante's Hell Animated

What The Hell Is This? This is not 'animation' as we know it today. It's not even a cartoon. This is nothing more than a series of cardboard, paper or picture stills of paintings - maybe even the paintings themselves that are being moved around by hand behind a camera set. It's nothing more than a picture puppet show.

In terms of animation, it's rubbish, but the real epic is that it does reflect a more accurate stance of Dante Alighieri's Inferno. It does not capitalise on its content, therefore it does not try to bring about its own storyline - like so many others - which is perhaps why it's 'got away with' being classified as 'animation'.

If anything it 'shows-off' 'The Paintings': The Barque of Dante (Delacroix, 1822); The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides (Blake, 1827); Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil (Scheffer, 1835); Dante in Hell (Flandrin, 1835); The Barque of Dante (1850s, Manet) Pia de' Tolomei (Rossetti, 1868); Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (Rossetti, 1885); La barca de Aqueronte (Hidalgo, 1887); La Laguna Estigia (Hidalgo, 1887).

The Animation, the Artists Impressions, the Country or source of origin and the Paintings are all edited, exalted & used in documentaries, teaching aids & other material that greatly or remotely reference Dante Alighieri and/or The Divine Comedy.

The Director & Producer Boris Acosta 'shows-off' his skill & love of 'The Arts' by labelling this as 'animation' - & that's what we're stuck with.

C'mon guys & gals out there in animated computing, do Dante Alighieri some real justice & give his Divine Comedy a 'proper' animated movie that doesn't resemble a puppet show or a video game.