Kirsten Lepore making Move Mountain
In earlier posts, unique animators like PES and Norman McLaren (and Tim Burton too) have been featured, and here is something new to check out: the work of Kirsten Lepore. As with many independant stop-motion filmmakers, a great deal of her work is in commercials. Great lessons in non-dialogue storytelling, editing, and sound design are to be found in her shorts Bottle (a distinctly poignant love story between sand and snow) and Move Mountain (which the director describes as “a story about illness, perseverance, and our connection to everything around us”). Along with lessons in frame-by-frame moviemaking, of course. Both also have respective making of pieces: Making of Move Mountain and Making of Bottle.
If you are interested in more information on the topic, check out Cengage Learning’s title The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation (by Ken Priebe). While we are on this topic, you might be interested in turning to two of the masters of the form: Jan Švankmajer and Brothers Quay. And in a few months, the very promising-looking The Boxtrolls from Laika studios will be arriving…
Update: Here’s a great interview by Girls at Library with Kirsten Lepore (who by now has also written and directed an episode of Adventure Time: Bad Jubies) about reading and books.
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