Claymation
Balance
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007dir: Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein, 7:23—A platform floats in a neutral space. Strange men, identical except for the numbers on their back, appearing as though out of some dystopian future, must work in concert to prevent the platform from tipping. The emergence of a strange box, a new development in this closed and sterile […]
Dog
Monday, October 1st, 2007dir: Suzie Templeton, 5:38—We like stop-motion animation here at ShortoftheWeek. The first two reviews we posted, Game Over and Creature Comforts were both stop-motion (though we’ve inexplicably ignored the form since), but we are not blind to the perceived diminishing of its stature. The dawn of CG brought about a lot of eulogizing on stop-motion […]
Creature Comforts
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007dir: Nick Park, Aardman Animations, 5:04—This classic, Oscar-winning claymation helped put Nick Park and Aardman Animations (creators of Wallace and Gromit) on the international map in 1991. Creature Comforts provides a humorous peek into the complex lives of zoo animals. Listen to a puma talk about his need for “space” or a turtle talk about […]