Stop-motion: Inhabited Worlds
Choose ten films produced over the past twenty years that illustrate the diversity of styles, subjects and aesthetic approaches to stop-motion animation... This was the original idea behind this programme full of surprises. We will cross paths with two little girls on holiday, covered in mud and confronted with the looming divorce of their parents (Looking for Horses), a taxi driver sentenced to death for getting dragged into the murderous rampage of a psychopathic singer (Taxi de nuit), an old man willing to do anything to save his cabbage from his wife's violent cooking (Stanley)... Even the incredibly disturbing Robert Mitchum (Calypso Is Like So) fits in with this strange crowd of characters.
While Allison Schulnik (Mound) and Martha Colburn (Metamorfoza) take us to the limits of the narrative, Catherine Buffat and Jean-Luc Gréco exacerbate a moment in daily life up to the point where it becomes tragic (Keeping Mum), Anthony Hodgson (Hilary) brilliantly distorts a children's tale by giving it a storyline that wavers between the absurd and triviality, and Blake Douglas Young (Everything Tickety-Boo) refers as much to fairy tales as he does to ghost stories, echoing Franck Dion (The Phantom Inventory) who examines the nooks and crannies of the memory.
Films
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Looking for Horses
Australia - Anthony LAWRENCE
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Hilary
United Kingdom - Anthony HODGSON
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La Bouche cousue
France - Jean-Luc GRÉCO, Catherine BUFFAT
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Mound
USA - Allison SCHULNIK
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Metamorfoza
Netherlands - Martha COLBURN
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L'Inventaire fantôme
France - Franck DION
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Everything Tickety-Boo
USA - Blake Douglas YOUNG
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Stanley
United Kingdom - Suzie TEMPLETON
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Calypso Is Like So
France - Bruno COLLET
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Taxi de nuit
France - Marco CASTILLA