The end titles also have these nice colour screens with little drawings. It ends up being quite touching and charming in a way that I don’t think the box art necessarily conveys but the title sequence does. One of them is an aging communist, one of them is more of a playboy, one of them is unhoused and they come together to share this suit and fulfill their dreams. Especially knowing Ray Bradbury himself is a conservative, it is a very empathetic movie about these people who are down on their luck who basically timeshare this suit. But it actually is a very warm and loving movie. I vaguely remember seeing the VHS at stores as a kid and you know, the box art has it looking like a family B-movie. The VHS box cover for The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

It’s a technique I mostly associate with, like, Soviet Bloc animation or NFB ’70s things. That must have been something that stopped being done just for how expensive and time-consuming it was. MD: Yeah, I think that’s why it’s so surprising that this movie that I believe was straight-to-video would have something so beautiful and painstaking… this clearly took a lot of time. The way that it moves gives it such an ethereal quality.

The creator is Aleksandra Korejwo and it’s coloured salt that she uses. The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) main title sequence, created by Aleksandra Korejwo and Robert Dawson It just happens to have this very beautiful, ornate title sequence. It has no science fiction elements at all. It’s a weird one because it’s Stuart Gordon, who’s known for Re-Animator and all these horror movies but it’s a family-friendly Disney movie that’s an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story. I usually have a random arrangement of things playing and I put it on on a lark. I like watching more deliberately but while I’m working I like having something in the background. I always need to have movies going while I’m drawing. It’s a weird place to find such an ornate title sequence. How did you first see The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit? I was just rewatching one of your picks, the titles for The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, and it was blowing my mind again. Thank you! Obviously I’m a fan of yours so it’s nice to bring it all together. Michael DeForge: I’m glad! I’m very flattered to be picked, I’m a big fan of the site. I’m so excited about the title sequences you've chosen. I reached him by phone to chat about his top five title sequences. In recent years, he has been curating Stuck Inside Watching Shit, a live stream of handpicked films. He has won numerous Ignatz and Doug Wright Awards. He is the author of the series Lose published by Koyama Press as well as the books Ant Colony and Birds of Maine published by Drawn & Quarterly. Michael DeForge is a visual artist and comics creator based in Toronto, Ontario.

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