Darkly surreal, the music video Stefan Nadelman created for Ramona Falls gives a hauntingly nuanced introduction to Brent Knopf's first solo album: Intuit.
Stefan Nadelman has won a 2003 Sundance Prize for his short film Terminal Bar and other honors. In the video, Nadelman uses photo collage puppetry, creating life and death from antique engravings.
The original French short films charmed me, perhaps because my ability to understand French dialogue is on the level of a young child.
When I heard the full length film was being released in North America after a screening at Cannes, I wanted to book a flight for New York. However, patience is a virtue I'm working on.
I'll screen the film in March when it finally comes here.
In this episode, Gumby's adventure on the moon inevitably lands him in trouble. His father steps in to rescue, and holds a poignant mirror to Art Clokey's relationship with his birth father and his adoptive father music teacher and composer Joseph W. Clokey.
The wayward lad is rescued by his father via an extended ladder.
The man on the moon looks like a kid drew his face, and somehow it makes life on the moon all the more plausible.
Cringing at the death of a bison-like potato, I fell in love with Hittle's early 16 mm stop motion animation.
A Timothy Lee Hittle Motion Picture
Hittle states on YouTube, "1991. 16mm film. This was shot before video assist technology was available. You carefully planned the animation and went for it. But you had to wait to get the film processed to see the shot for the first time."
Timothy Lee Hittle is Producer and Director of Animation for Gumby Dahrma, winner of the documentary Emmy in 2008. Hittle is the creator of Jay Clay and Blue, the lead characters of his films Potato Hunter and Canhead. The third Jay Clay film, which will complete the trilogy, is a work in progress. Canhead was nominated for an Academy Award in 1996, for Best Animated Short. His credits include Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach; Pixar's A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and The Incredibles; and with Henry Sellick Monkey Bone and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
