Annecy — In major news for Mexican animation as it comes under the spotlight at Annecy, director Sofia Carrillo is teaming with “Roma” producer Nicolas Celis and ‘Dance of the 41’ writer Monika Revilla to make “Insectario,” which bids fair to become one of the first stop motion features from Mexico.
Targeting family audiences, and written by Revilla, “Insectario” is set up at Celis’ Pimienta Films.
Carrillo, who worked on the Mexican second unit on “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” based out of Guadalajara’s El Taller del Chucho, told Variety that “Insectario” will build on the same aesthetic universe of “Cerulia” using the same puppets and sometimes the same sets.
“To a certain extent, ‘Insectario’ is a prolongation of the world of ‘Cerulia,’ but with an independent story which stands by itself,” she said.
In “Cerulia,” Carrillo’s crowning triumph which made her one of the most sought-after directors in Mexico,...
Targeting family audiences, and written by Revilla, “Insectario” is set up at Celis’ Pimienta Films.
Carrillo, who worked on the Mexican second unit on “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” based out of Guadalajara’s El Taller del Chucho, told Variety that “Insectario” will build on the same aesthetic universe of “Cerulia” using the same puppets and sometimes the same sets.
“To a certain extent, ‘Insectario’ is a prolongation of the world of ‘Cerulia,’ but with an independent story which stands by itself,” she said.
In “Cerulia,” Carrillo’s crowning triumph which made her one of the most sought-after directors in Mexico,...
- 6/12/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In the 1920s, Russian animator Władysław Starewicz, a.k.a. Lasislas Starevich, began experimenting with stop-motion animation techniques that would make the process look a little bit more natural. Traditionally for stop-motion, a doll, clay, or other plastic substance would be moved slightly, photographed, moved slightly again, and so on for 24 frames per second, creating the illusion of movement. The resulting animation takes a lot of painstaking work and a great deal of time, but it makes for an appealing style than allowed dolls and models to come to life. The issue Starevich had with stop-motion was that is possessed a "jerky," unnatural quality of movement. He combated this by moving his camera during the photography process to add a blur to the image. If an animated figure had the same photographic blur as a quick-moving human, Starevich figured, then the animated object would appear more real.
Thus, go-motion animation was born.
Thus, go-motion animation was born.
- 12/14/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
We’re a little bit late for Insect Week, which ended on June 26 this year, but any time’s a good time to celebrate the bugs and critters who have crept and crawled their way onto our cinema screens - from silent incarnations like Wladyslaw Starewicz’s The Insects Christmas, which you can watch at the end of this feature, through horror films like Phenomena and animation to documentary. So this week we’re tuning our antennae to a few of the best.
Minuscule 2 Photo: Signature Entertainment
Minuscule 2, Amazon Prime
This vibrant animation brings a whole new meaning to the instruction, "Ladybird, ladybird fly away home", as one of the little insects sneaks out from hibernation only to end up taking an unexpected trip to the Caribbean, with a parent in tow. We see how the pair of them cope and make new friends on Guadeloupe at the same time...
Minuscule 2 Photo: Signature Entertainment
Minuscule 2, Amazon Prime
This vibrant animation brings a whole new meaning to the instruction, "Ladybird, ladybird fly away home", as one of the little insects sneaks out from hibernation only to end up taking an unexpected trip to the Caribbean, with a parent in tow. We see how the pair of them cope and make new friends on Guadeloupe at the same time...
- 7/9/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ghibli to give master-class at lakeside Annecy International Animation Festival.
Japanese animator Isao Takahata will make a rare international appearance this week at the 38th Annecy International Animation Festival which opens today [June 9] with The Tale of Princess Kaguya, the first feature overseen by the Studio Ghibli co-founder in more than a decade.
The 78-year animator will give a master-class at the festival on Tuesday in which he will discuss his 50-year career that began at Toei Animation in the 1970s where he met long-time collaborator and Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.
The master-class is part of a packed programme of talks and conferences at the lakeside animation festival, running June 9-14, a key date in the calendar for professionals and students from across the animation world.
Other highlights include a sneak preview of by Monsters Inc. director Pete Docter of his upcoming Pixar-produced Inside Out. The film, probing inside the human mind, is set for...
Japanese animator Isao Takahata will make a rare international appearance this week at the 38th Annecy International Animation Festival which opens today [June 9] with The Tale of Princess Kaguya, the first feature overseen by the Studio Ghibli co-founder in more than a decade.
The 78-year animator will give a master-class at the festival on Tuesday in which he will discuss his 50-year career that began at Toei Animation in the 1970s where he met long-time collaborator and Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.
The master-class is part of a packed programme of talks and conferences at the lakeside animation festival, running June 9-14, a key date in the calendar for professionals and students from across the animation world.
Other highlights include a sneak preview of by Monsters Inc. director Pete Docter of his upcoming Pixar-produced Inside Out. The film, probing inside the human mind, is set for...
- 6/9/2014
- ScreenDaily
The 5th annual Strange Beauty Film Festival will feature three nights — and one afternoon — of gorgeous short films by local filmmakers and from filmmakers around the world on June 12-14 at the Manbites Dog Theater in Durham, North Carolina.
The Opening Night selection on June 12 will feature local films such as Shambhavi Kaul’s Mount Song, Alina Taalman’s The Descening Package and D.L. Anderson’s Bili Rubin; aswell as films from Rochester, NY; Chicago, Il; and as far away as London and Watford, England.
Some films to look out for throughout the rest of the festival include Fall 1+2 by Canadian filmmaker Aaron Zeghers; Lori Felker‘s award-winning Scattered in the Wind; and Frontier Journals 03: Aztec Baldwin Collage by acclaimed documentarian Georg Koszulinski that features the legendary Craig Baldwin.
Also, the Closing Night program on June 14 will feature Strange Beauty’s Aural Fixation, a program of experimental soundscapes curated by Jenny Morgan.
The Opening Night selection on June 12 will feature local films such as Shambhavi Kaul’s Mount Song, Alina Taalman’s The Descening Package and D.L. Anderson’s Bili Rubin; aswell as films from Rochester, NY; Chicago, Il; and as far away as London and Watford, England.
Some films to look out for throughout the rest of the festival include Fall 1+2 by Canadian filmmaker Aaron Zeghers; Lori Felker‘s award-winning Scattered in the Wind; and Frontier Journals 03: Aztec Baldwin Collage by acclaimed documentarian Georg Koszulinski that features the legendary Craig Baldwin.
Also, the Closing Night program on June 14 will feature Strange Beauty’s Aural Fixation, a program of experimental soundscapes curated by Jenny Morgan.
- 6/5/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
If you didn’t get your stop-motion fix last Friday night at the Ray Harryhausen Tribute, you’ll have a chance this weekend to take in the astonishing 9-minute horror short Abyssus Abyssum Invocat when it plays here as part of the St. Louis International film festival.
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a Latin phrase that means ‘Deep thinking leads to deep understanding’, though the filmmakers note that it can mean ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’. Whatever the translation, the film is clearly inspired by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, the American Brothers Quay, and Russian animator Wladyslaw Starewicz by way of David Lynch and the Saw franchise. Abyssus Abyssum Invocat utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion. I’ve seen Abyssus Abyssum Invocat and it’s a haunting trip. The animation isn’t particularly smooth but that crudeness works in the film’s favor,...
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a Latin phrase that means ‘Deep thinking leads to deep understanding’, though the filmmakers note that it can mean ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’. Whatever the translation, the film is clearly inspired by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, the American Brothers Quay, and Russian animator Wladyslaw Starewicz by way of David Lynch and the Saw franchise. Abyssus Abyssum Invocat utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion. I’ve seen Abyssus Abyssum Invocat and it’s a haunting trip. The animation isn’t particularly smooth but that crudeness works in the film’s favor,...
- 11/20/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ealing: Light And Dark, London
Over the years, Ealing has become a byword for quintessentially British comedy, as with familiar classics such as The Ladykillers and The Lavender Hill Mob, but this two-month retrospective shows just how much more there was to the studio. You'll find fine noir thrillers embedded in the landscape of austerity Britain, such as East End tragedy It Always Rains On Sunday, Next Of Kin or Cage Of Gold, in which Jean Simmons is led astray by an homme fatal.
BFI Southbank, SE1, Mon to 30 Dec
Africa In Motion, Edinburgh & Glasgow
Between Nollywood and the Arab spring, there are plenty of stories to tell in African cinema right now. However, in addition, this growing festival brings you African sci-fi, children's and art movies, including 20 British premieres, and films from Libya, Rwanda, Burkina Faso and Congo. Africa is literally in motion in festival closer Restless City, a...
Over the years, Ealing has become a byword for quintessentially British comedy, as with familiar classics such as The Ladykillers and The Lavender Hill Mob, but this two-month retrospective shows just how much more there was to the studio. You'll find fine noir thrillers embedded in the landscape of austerity Britain, such as East End tragedy It Always Rains On Sunday, Next Of Kin or Cage Of Gold, in which Jean Simmons is led astray by an homme fatal.
BFI Southbank, SE1, Mon to 30 Dec
Africa In Motion, Edinburgh & Glasgow
Between Nollywood and the Arab spring, there are plenty of stories to tell in African cinema right now. However, in addition, this growing festival brings you African sci-fi, children's and art movies, including 20 British premieres, and films from Libya, Rwanda, Burkina Faso and Congo. Africa is literally in motion in festival closer Restless City, a...
- 10/19/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
From Film New Europe: Is Central Europe poised to regain its position as a leading force in the field of animation? Judging from the recent upsurge in production, and a new emphasis on feature length animation, this could be the region to watch. Se Ma For It's a form that has a long and honored tradition. From Lithuania's Ladislaw Starewicz (who brings a Polish pedigree), creator of puppet animation, to Czechoslovakia's imaginative successor to Georges Melies, Karel Zeman - the subject of a year-long tribute by the Zlin festival of films for children and youth (http://www.zlin-fest.cz) - the region has…...
- 6/14/2010
- Sydney's Buzz
The 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival is another exciting celebration of underground film past and present, featuring two retrospectives of two master filmmakers and dozens of short films and features from some of the most gifted talents working today.
For the retrospectives, first, Kenneth Anger will be in attendance at the festival for two programs of his classic work, including Fireworks and Scorpio Rising. Plus, for the first Anger screening, the filmmaker will be joined on-stage by film critic Dennis Lim for a discussion of his work and career. The second retrospective is of the work of the late Chick Strand, who sadly passed away in 2009. Strand’s Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) will actually open the entire festival, then there will be two retrospective screenings of her work, the first of which will be presented by film scholar Irina Leimbacher.
The rest of the Aaff lineup reads like a...
For the retrospectives, first, Kenneth Anger will be in attendance at the festival for two programs of his classic work, including Fireworks and Scorpio Rising. Plus, for the first Anger screening, the filmmaker will be joined on-stage by film critic Dennis Lim for a discussion of his work and career. The second retrospective is of the work of the late Chick Strand, who sadly passed away in 2009. Strand’s Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) will actually open the entire festival, then there will be two retrospective screenings of her work, the first of which will be presented by film scholar Irina Leimbacher.
The rest of the Aaff lineup reads like a...
- 3/8/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The French omnibus horror film "Fear(s) in the Dark" comes off a bit as a cataract of gimmicks -- fully animated, using comic artists with distinctive styles, no color allowed (well, a little red to pepper up the black and white palette) and focused on phobias and anxieties. Omnibus films, with which we are suddenly surrounded (Paris this, New York that), are gimmicks themselves, not much like anthologies, because you can't roam at will. Their viewing experiences are predicated on variety instead of consistency, and the often fizzling impact of clumped shorts, each more or less the total sum, which is too often shruggable itself.
But "Fear(s)" is a hypnotic cocktail, and its key liquor may be Frenchness -- some of the materials folded in have no sensible conclusion (the fear of "Tales from the Crypt" moralism is unavoidable), and some aren't stories at all. Some stand entire and alone,...
But "Fear(s)" is a hypnotic cocktail, and its key liquor may be Frenchness -- some of the materials folded in have no sensible conclusion (the fear of "Tales from the Crypt" moralism is unavoidable), and some aren't stories at all. Some stand entire and alone,...
- 10/27/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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