DVD Release Date: Oct. 30, 2012
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Microcinema
The 2011 soon-to-be-a-cult fave short film Three Fragments of a Lost Tale is this first stop-motion animated short by American sculptor John Frame.
The 20-minute-long film is based on one of Frame’s art installations—one that was originally exhibited at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California—which consists of 35 articulated, sculpted characters set on a strange, ever-changing detailed backdrop. That the characters are “articulated” refers to their moving fingers, bodies, and jaws.
“Mr. Frame is part of an underground group of stop-motion artists in Southern California who labor in the shadows of the major studios,” writes The New York Times. “Long the center of studio-backed stop-motion animation made by artists like Ray Harryhausen and Art Clokey, the area is now home to scores of solo practitioners more interested in creating highly personal art pieces than commercial works.
Price: DVD $19.95
Studio: Microcinema
The 2011 soon-to-be-a-cult fave short film Three Fragments of a Lost Tale is this first stop-motion animated short by American sculptor John Frame.
The 20-minute-long film is based on one of Frame’s art installations—one that was originally exhibited at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California—which consists of 35 articulated, sculpted characters set on a strange, ever-changing detailed backdrop. That the characters are “articulated” refers to their moving fingers, bodies, and jaws.
“Mr. Frame is part of an underground group of stop-motion artists in Southern California who labor in the shadows of the major studios,” writes The New York Times. “Long the center of studio-backed stop-motion animation made by artists like Ray Harryhausen and Art Clokey, the area is now home to scores of solo practitioners more interested in creating highly personal art pieces than commercial works.
- 10/9/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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