3 minutes of stop-motion puppetry that'll haunt your dreams — literally.
16mm life size stop motion puppetry and time lapse animation.
Practical Effects
Life-size puppets shot on grainy 16mm film.
Direction
Leiser brothers' fever-dream vision distilled to essence.
Editing
Time-lapse decay meets meticulous frame animation.
Director
Eric Leiser
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Leiser brothers shot this on 16mm film they hand-processed, giving each frame its unstable, flickering quality.
Part of a micro-wave of 2000s experimental animators using 'life-size' puppets to escape Disney's cute aesthetic — think Jan Švankmajer meets Brothers Quay on a shoestring.
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