Gisele Kerosene is a short film by Dutch film maker Jan Kounen. The experimental video was made in 1989 and is very craft orientated, using stock-frame animation as the main material to create the film.
The story is about four witches in a very modern-looking city. At the beginning of the film they are showed worshipping an object with a bird-shaped head on a stick. Another witch in red then flies past on a broomstick and steals it. The four witches mount their broomsticks and race after the thief in order to try and retrieve their precious object. This leads to a chase around the city landscape in which one by one, each witch ends up badly injured as well as a nurse and her patient in a wheelchair. At the end the last witch left chasing the red witch crashes into a wall and the thief then hands it back the item. The film doesn't appear to have much of a concept - the only meaning I get from it is the thrill and danger of the chase - the thief seems to have stolen the item in order to make mischief, rather than the object meaning anything to him, hence why in the end he gives it up.
This video was heavily crafted and intricate in it's design. The stock frame animation used would have been painstakingly time consuming and difficult to do. In order to give the impression of flight with the witches on broomsticks the creators had to take hundreds of pictures of the actors jumping. They then had to put these pictures together in a sequence. Jan Kounen's inventive take on stop-frame animation makes this a very fun and comical piece.
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