Stop Motion Tag Archive

Animation, Film Festival

Fanny Capu Unburdens the Next Generation From the Suffocating Weight of Legacy in Stop-Motion Cannes Short ‘Pickled’

Fanny Capu on engineering a dancing puppet for her grad NFTS Cannes premiering short that asks what each generation is owed and what heritage it can discard.

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Animation, Music Video

James Siewert Spins up a Stop Motion Tale of Capitalism’s Inevitable Downfall for Just Desserts’ ‘Tender’

James Siewert's music video whisks us from the birth of modern society, to it's capitalist systems now creaking at the seems, and it's inevitable demise.

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Animation, Awards

Maciek Szczerbowski & Chris Lavis Weigh Love’s Value in Oscar-Winning Stop Motion ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’

Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski reflect on turning a wooden first cut into a fluid narrative by ripping apart the script of their Oscar animation in post.

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Animation, Premiere

Hope Springs Musically Eternal in Guy Larsen’s Delightful Stop-Motion Jazz-Fest Short ‘Root Note’

Guy Larsen's fertile allegorical animated short shows how music, beauty and creativity can sprout and flourish in even the most barren of landscapes.

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Animation, Premiere

Thomas Laurance Exorcises Creative Paralysis Through DIY Rotoscoping in His Scatological Satire ‘Tortured Artist’

Thomas Laurance deconstructs the unequivocally independent process of his joyfully crude sub-£100 comedy short lampooning the toxic pressure to make good art.

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Animation, Awards

Baz Sells Crafts an Eden of Queer Black Love in Tender BIFA & BAFTA Nominated Stop Motion Short ‘Two

Baz Sells, Dean Atta & Ben Jackson trace the five-year journey of bringing their animated short to life, a stop-motion tale of self-acceptance and queer love.

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Animation, Premiere

An Aspiring Accordion Player Falls Prey To Insidious Exploitation in Eva Louise Hall’s Stop Motion Horror ‘Mira’

From a modest thesis project to a celebrated festival short, Eva Louise Hall reveals the unexpected journey of her dark tale of abusive creative relationships.

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Animation, Awards

Breakfast With “A Room Full of Bald Men”: The Unlikely Inspiration Behind Nicolas Keppens’ ‘Beautiful Men’

Director Nicolas Keppens walks DN through his journey into stop motion animation and the inspiration behind his Oscar-nominated short about male insecurity.

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Animation, Awards

José Prats Reminds Us To Honour Our Parents With His BAFTA Nominated Short Film ‘Adiós’

When BAFTA recognition means your grandma finally understands your job: José Prats on bridging personal filmmaking and professional acclaim.

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Animation, Awards

How Nina Gantz Found the Perfect Balance Between Sadness and Humour in Award Winning Short ‘Wander to Wonder’

Nina Gantz takes DN inside the extraordinary craftsmanship of her stop motion short which offers a poignant exploration of loss for its diminutive stars.

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Animation, Awards

An Iranian Schoolgirl Weaves Stories Into the Fabric of Her Clothes in Yegane Moghaddam’s Oscar Short ‘Our Uniform’

Yegane Moghaddam reveals the profound real-life anecdotes from Iranian schoolgirls that informed her film which began life as an animated documentary.

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Animation, Awards, Documentary

Samantha Moore Champions the Curative Power of Knitting in Her BAFTA Nominated Stop Motion Doc ‘Visible Mending’

Samantha Moore breaks down the slyly subversive framework of her tactile and therapeutic animated documentary expressing the restorative power of knitting.

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