Henry Kathman

The official collection of work created by Henry Kathman: Video essays, Podcasts, Tabletop RPGs, and Other Art. Supported by contributions to patreon.com/henrykathman

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The Greatest Movie You'll Never See! - Goncharov (1973)

I believe that I have made the most comprehesive video essay on the 1973 film Goncharov that has been released to date, including restored footage, interviews, and rare behind-the-scenes insight into this forgotten film.

More info below the cut

Special Thanks to Molly Noise (She/Her) for composing the original music Matt Crowley (He/Him) for his quotes Marisa BeBeau (She/Her) for graciously letting me interview her. You can support her work at @sabertoothwalrus

You can also buy a copy of the 'Nico the Catboy' zine here!

Bibliography

Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Penguin Books, 1935, pp. 1–26. Connanro. “Goncharov Master Document.” Google Docs, 20 Nov. 2022, docs.google.com/document/d/1Fbcn96MKyc1Bky6c0Ffex4APtar9iNht8ytfZHPpSss/edit#heading=h.bpd1oee4nr3q. Accessed 16 Mar. 2023. Jacobsen, Emily. “Ratatouille the Musical (Full Show).” YouTube, 9 Dec. 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdTi-R-Apw. Accessed 15 Mar. 2023. Juli. “Goncharov Score Masterpost.” Tumblr, 21 Nov. 2022, www.tumblr.com/thisisnotjuli/701573313313587200/goncharov-score-masterpost?source=share. Accessed 16 Mar. 2023. Lauren Shippen. “Ice Pick Joe Quote.” Tumblr, 1 Nov. 2022, thelaurenshippen.tumblr.com/post/701652426816733184/i-know-that-ice-pick-joe-operates-mostly-as-a. Accessed 15 Mar. 2023. Marisa BeBeau. “Nico the Catboy Archive.” Sabertoothwalrus, Tumblr, 25 Oct. 2020, sabertoothwalrus.tumblr.com/tagged/nico%20the%20catboy/chrono. Accessed 15 Mar. 2023.

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Playing Palia with My Wife!

My wife and I have been really enjoying our time in Palia, so we wanted to try out playing this game on stream.For those who don't know, Pal

My wife @aaaautomaton and I are going to play some Palia at 12 CST. I drew our Palia OCs to commemorate the occasion. Pics of our characters below the cut!

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Thanks to my brother for telling me about this story. [Alt text below]

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

[Alt Text: Original comic created by cooltimeonline. A man laying on a therapist's couch, talking to the logo of the Guardian, "Oh the Guardian, I'm just feeling real low." The Tv shows a picture of the cow from the article and responds, "COW TOOLS CONFIRMED," gaining the man's attention, who says, "Oh shit, for real?]

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Part of the Madness - An Adventure Time Bossa Nova Jazz Cover

With Fionna and Cake having a new season sometime this month, I wanted to officially release a cover that I produced a few years ago with a fancy lyric video and some mastering by Molly Noise. Hope you enjoy my trumpeting!

(Credits & Download Info Below)

Part of the Madness (Cover)

Vocals and Trumpets by Henry Kathman Original Song and Guitar by Rebecca Sugar Instrumental by Phizzy, Edited by Henry Kathman Drums by Guitare Improvisation and Drumset Fundamentals  Mastering by Molly Noise 

Download for $3 or becoming a monthly supporter on Patreon!

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Adventures in Temp Space: A 'Bee & Puppycat' One Page RPG

Back in 2023, I contributed to 'Off to Space!' - a Bee and Puppycat Fanzine by creating a small one page rpg based on the show. Now that it's been a couple of years, I wanted to upload it elsewhere just so people could have easier access to download and play it.

Download for free on itchio or my patreon!

In this game, players all must share control over Bee and Puppycat in their adventures completing temp jobs throughout space. As they work to complete the task provided by that job, they must balance the uncertain Bee and the chaotically distractible Puppycat so they can be paid and avoid certain doom.

The game involves a gamemaster (GM), at least two players, and will use up to three six sided dice (D6).

This was an interesting project to work on, especially from a design standpoint. I liked the idea of multiple players controlling the same characters and the kind of chaos that could ensue from that. If any of you play it, let me know how it went!

Until next time, thank you for your continued support!

[chryza]

Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?

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Gods help me, I'm thinking about Jester Lavorre again...

[Id: A drawing of Jester Lavorre from 'Critical Role', a blue tiefling with dark blue hair, lavender eyes, grey twisting horns adorned with gold jewelry, she is wearing a pink dress with a lacy bodice and transparent pink sleeves]

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The Weird World of Pokémon TTRPGS

In another installment of "Henry makes a video about whatever random thing he wants," this video combines my love for Pokémon and Tabletop RPGs to explore which system translates what I consider most important to the themes and mechanics of Pokémon.

This video also is a little bit of a love letter to fan made TTRPGs and to every hobbyists that has created stuff for this space.

Links to the RPGs featured in this video

Pokémon Tabletop Adventures 3rd edition

Pokémon Tabletop Adventures 2.5 edition (This is a weird hack I made that took the Pokémon rules from PTA 2 and Kept the Trainer Rules from PTA3)  

Pokémon Tabletop United

Pokémon 5E

PokeRole

PokeyManz

Pokémon Pen & Paper Version

A Monster's Tail

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Hello! Well- this isnt really a question , but i just wanted to say how just today i found you from your snufkin first day of spring song? (Correct me if im wrong) and i wanted to say you have a lovely singing voice <3

And here is a snufkin meme for u

Thank you! It was me!

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This video was produced for ​⁠the essay library's 2025 Essay Jam, where essayists were tasked with writing, producing a full video essay in the span of 48 hours. The theme for the jam was Journey, which caused me to think about animator Gints Zilbalodis and the ways his eight films embody the struggles and joys found in the artistic Journey.

For more info about the jam

Watch the other jam entries

Sources:

Away. Directed by Gints Zilbalodis, Tubi, 2019.

https://tubitv.com/movies/539578/.

Bailey, Jason. ““Twilight Zone: The Movie” and the Deadly Accident That Plagued It.” The New York Times, 25 June 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/movies/the-twilight-zone-the-movie-accident.html.

Bromwich, Jonah, and Liam Stack. ““Ren & Stimpy” Creator Accused of Sexual Misconduct with Teenagers in the 1990s.” The New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/arts/ren-stimpy-creator-misconduct.html.

Coyle, Jake. ““Flow” Review: Cat Parable about Climate Change Is the Year’s Best Animated Movie.” AP News, The Associated Press, 6 Dec. 2024, apnews.com/article/flow-animated-movie-review-98940a387edd5f83354719f51139bc33. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

Debruge, Peter. ““Away” Review: Gints Zilbalodis’ Mesmerizing One-Man Animation.” Variety, Dec. 2019, variety.com/2019/film/reviews/away-review-gints-zilbalodis-1203420229/. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

IMDb. “Gints Zilbalodis.” The Internet Movie Database, IMDb.com, Inc., 2019, www.imdb.com/name/nm6478535/?ref_=tt_ov_dr_1. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

Lang, Jamie. ““Flow” Director Gints Zilbalodis Filmmaker Interview.” Variety, 8 Jan. 2025, variety.com/2025/film/awards/flow-director-gints-zilbalodis-interview-1236269649/. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

Orkibi, Hod. "Highly artistic-social personalities buffer the effects of burnout on career commitment." The Arts in Psychotherapy 50 (2016): 75-83.

Petch, Callie. “Away – Film Review.” Set the Tape, 15 Jan. 2021, setthetape.com/2021/01/15/away-film-review/ . Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

Roxborough, Scott. “Flow Director Gints Zilbalodis Interview: Cat-Focused Environment Film.” The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2024, www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/flow-director-gints-zilbalodis-interview-cat-focused-environmental-fable-1236023460/ .

Shapiro, Lila. “The Dark Secrets behind the Neil Gaiman Abuse Accusations.” Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025, www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html.

Spoto, Donald. The Life of Alfred Hitchcock : The Dark Side of Genius. London, Collins, 1983.

Stage, The Film. “Flow Director Gints Zilbalodis on Animating Animals, Allegories, and Cinema vs. Videogames.” The Film Stage - Your Spotlight on Cinema, 25 Nov. 2024, thefilmstage.com/flow-director-gints-zilbalodis-on-animating-animals-allegories-and-cinema-vs-videogames /. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

Thapa, Shaurya. “Flow - Interview with Film Director / Co-Writer Gints Zilbalodis | Borrowing Tape.” Borrowing Tape, 10 Jan. 2025, borrowingtape.com/interviews/flow-interview-with-film-director-co-writer-gints-zilbalodis. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

“Twilight Zone Accident... John Landis Indictment... - RareNewspapers.com.” Rarenewspapers.com, 2025, www.rarenewspapers.com/view/679311?imagelist=1. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

Zilbalodis, Gints. “Gints Zilbalodis Vimeo Page.” Vimeo, 2010, vimeo.com/gints. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

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Playing through Snufkin: Fuddler's Courtship

After a busy holiday season, I am streaming the new DLC for Snufkin: Melody of MoominvalleyWebsite: https://henrykathman.com/Tumblr: http://

At 12 PM CST, I am going to be playing through the Fuddler's Courtship DLC for Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley. Come join me then!

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I wanted to get back into the swing of things with another Junk Drawer Essay about UFO50 and the ways it uses intertextuality in a really interesting way.

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My phone right now

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In celebration of the new Season of Moomin that is occurring in Sky: Children of the Light, I drew my Sky Character for some streams that I plan to do.

You can watch the first VOD here!

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The Miraculous Horror of Stop Motion

From the same artform that brought you Coraline and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, comes three stories that evoke the existential fear of art.

Original Music by Molly Noise

Bibliography below

Atrocity Guide. “The Animators Who’ve Spent 40 Years on a Single Film.” YouTube, 9 Oct. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hip3pz0Xs&pp=ygUMdGhlIG92ZXJjb2F0. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Brubaker, Charles. “The Japanese Studios of Rankin/Bass.” Cartoon Research, Jerry Beck, 14 Apr. 2014, cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-japanese-studios-of-rankinbass/.

Bute, Paris. “Introduction to “a Rankin/Bass Retrospective from a New Perspective.”” Citizen Jane, Stephens College, 19 Nov. 2021, www.citizenjane.org/home/cwwicd2ucb2fvs64kgfaocfykjhaum. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Crome, Althea. “Coraline.” Althea Crome | Micro Knitter, 2012, www.altheacrome.com/coraline. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Harold Halibut. Directed by Onat Hekimoğlu, Slow Bros., 16 Apr. 2024.

Hekimoglu, Onat, and Gabriel Schmitz. “Unite Berlin 2018 - Harold Halibut and Making a Stop Motion Game.” Unity, YouTube, 6 Aug. 2018, youtu.be/9usssSQc0wQ. Accessed 6 May 2023.

Jon "Sikamikanico" Clarke. “The Making of Harold Halibut.” XboxEra, YouTube, 21 Mar. 2024, youtu.be/WMyxM9t3o7A. Accessed 19 June 2024.

LAIKA Studios. “Sweater and Gloves: Knitting Coraline by Hand.” YouTube, 11 July 2017, youtu.be/zUvkfcGR-7U. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Mad God Productions. “Phil Tippett’s “Mad God.”” Kickstarter, 17 May 2012, www.kickstarter.com/projects/madgod/phil-tippetts-mad-god/posts.

Olson, Mathew. “Report: Michel Ancel Accused of Abusive, Disruptive Practices on beyond Good & Evil 2.” VG247, 25 Sept. 2020, www.vg247.com/report-michel-ancel-accused-of-abusive-disruptive-practices-on-beyond-good-evil-2. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Ono, Kosei. “Tadahito Mochinaga: The Japanese Animator Who Lived in Two Worlds.” Animation World Network, AWN, Inc, 1 Dec. 1999, www.awn.com/animationworld/tadahito-mochinaga-japanese-animator-who-lived-two-worlds.

Orland, Kyle. “Claptrap Voice Actor Accuses Gearbox CEO of Assault, Underpayment.” Ars Technica, 7 May 2019, arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/claptrap-voice-actor-accuses-gearbox-ceo-of-assault-underpayment/. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Pilling, Jayne. A Reader In Animation Studies. Indiana University Press, 1998. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/40033.

Prehistoric Beast. Directed by Phil Tippett, Tippett Studios, 1984. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlaXIRTjNfo

Randles, Jonathan. “VFX Studio with Star Wars, Jurassic Park Credits Goes Bankrupt.” Bloomberg Law, 1 May 2024, news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/vfx-studio-with-star-wars-jurassic-park-credits-goes-bankrupt. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Shanley, Patrick. “Gearbox Software CEO Accused of Contempt in Latest Filing.” The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Aug. 2019, www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/gearbox-software-ceo-accused-contempt-latest-filing-1235064/. Accessed 19 June 2024.

The Making of “Jurassic Park.” Directed by John Schultz, Amblin Entertainment, 1995. https://youtu.be/8r01mk6F_Pk

The Making of Mad God. Directed by Maya Tippett, Shudder, 2021. https://youtu.be/sfUOHh0xmwc

The Tale of the Fox. Directed by Irene Starewicz and Ladislas Starevich, UFA GmbH, 10 Apr. 1941. https://youtu.be/Us_Pn6Q1dBQ

Wikipedia contributors. "List of films with longest production time." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 12 Jun. 2024. Web. 19 Jun. 2024.

Wikipedia contributors. "List of media notable for being in development hell." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 19 Jun. 2024. Web. 19 Jun. 2024.

Wikipedia contributors. "List of Rankin/Bass Productions films." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 9 Jun. 2024. Web. 19 Jun. 2024.

Wikipedia contributors. "Tadahito Mochinaga." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 28 Nov. 2023. Web. 19 Jun. 2024.

Wilson, Josh. “Phil Tippett: 24 Frames per Second < the Fabulist Words & Art.” The Fabulist Words & Art, 5 Nov. 2021, fabulistmagazine.com/24-frames-per-second-the-phil-tippett-interview/.

Worse than the Demon. Directed by Maya Tippett, Shudder, 2013. https://youtu.be/ghKqvDNRe4c

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Playing an Actually Good Detective Game | Pentiment

Website: https://henrykathman.com/Tumblr: http://henrykathman.tumblr.comBluesky: https://henrykathman.bsky.socialPodcast: https://pinkaisle.

I desperately need to play an actually good detective game, so I'm going to be streaming Pentiment today at 5pm CST. Come join me then!

Character Art Below the Cut

I drew this avatar by doing the line art on paper with my Tombow pen that has been an absolute game changer for inking. I then scanned and colored it in photoshop using the color palette of the game.

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Today at 3pm CST, I'm going to try out 'Nobody Wants to Die' Come watch me solve some Cyberpunk murders!