Vince Collins' Malice in Wonderland

Vince Collins' Malice in Wonderland

Vince Collins' Malice in Wonderland

Malice in Wonderland, a 1982 animation by Vince Collins that will just melt your brain as nude grimalkins do perpetual somersaults and Cheshire grins evolve into the toothy vertical smile of a vagina dentata. To call it surreal would be an understatement: this is what you see after taking the brown acid.

I was curious about Vince after watching this, so I googled him up, and lo and behold, he's got a MySpace profile. He's 62 now and here's a shock: he never made it in mainstream Hollywood. He's also a highly entertaining ranter.

I kept on making goddam films anyway! But I hated the messy paint, scratches on the cels, goddam reflections on the cels, fingerprints on the cels. The cat walks in the goddam paint and gets it all over everything. I'm not kidding. It's depressing. It really is.

Film has so many things that can go wrong - processing, dirt, hair in the gate. It's a goddam nightmare. If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.

I really need a goddam computerized digital system for crissake.

He's also got one of the best FAQs I've ever seen, filled with perplexed quotes from friends, acquaintances and industry big-wigs who don't get him at all. "Are these pieces examples of malappropisms or are they non-sequiturs??" — George Lucas, Multi-Billionaire.

I love this guy. Maybe I should do something on him for Wired.

Vincne Collins [MySpace]