After failing to graduate from West Point, Poe began working for several literary journals as a critic and editor, moving from Richmond to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. That same year, Poe anonymously published Tamerlane and Other Poems, his first collection. He attended the University of Virginia for a year before withdrawing due to a lack of funds, enlisting in the U.S. Raised in Richmond, Virginia by the Allan family of merchants, Poe struggled with gambling addiction and frequently fought with his foster parents over debts. Born in Boston to a family of actors, Poe was abandoned by his father in 1810 before being made an orphan with the death of his mother the following year.
(The “KAAA KAAAA” sound in the beginning was beautifully executed by myself.)Īn interesting fact about “The Facts in the case of M.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, and editor. The background music is an excerpt of Astor Piazzolla’s “Soledad” and the narration is by Mr. So, for me, the difficulty was the time restriction, and trying to condense the story, while keeping the beauty of Edgar Allan Poe’s prose and adding my own touch to it hence the idea of adding an evil black cat. Valdemar” ( amazing title, don’t you think?) I was really interested in doing my own interpretation of an Edgar Allan Poe short story, and I kept coming back to “The Facts in the Case of M. We were required to do a two-minute film. I did this film during my MA in animation at Kingston University. My parents said to me: we don’t understand why you would do such a film…you’re such a nice boy. I think it’s important to note that I’ve always been afraid of watching horror movies, and still am, and I always close my eyes during the scary, gory parts but what I’ve discovered after making this film is that I really enjoy seeing people reacting to it. Poe’s gory details, which at point includes a description of Valdemar’s eyes leaking a “profuse outflowing of a yellowish ichor,” are played for comic effect in Jaroudi’s short.īahij shared some details with us about the filmmaking process and will answer additional questions in the comments:
Jaroudi’s approach runs counter to convention, and he creates a bright and exaggerated interpretation of Poe’s story with nods to the cartooniest of animators and cartoonists like Rod Scribner and Basil Wolverton. Traditional animated interpretations of Poe have been rooted in an illustrative tradition, a la the UPA classic The Tell-Tale Heart (1953). The story is based on an 1845 Edgar Allen Poe story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar was made by Bahij Jaroudi for the MA program at Kingston University.
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