Robert Morgan is entering his fourth decade as a filmmaker and stop motion animator. In that time, he’s made some fantastically disturbing and multi-award-winning short films, most of them stop motion, and some live action. As someone who loves horror and animation, I’ve been an admirer of Morgan’s for years, and his 2003 short film The Separation stands among my favorites of all time. So I was thrilled to have a chance to speak with him about his debut feature Stopmotion. The film mixes live action and stop motion animation to tell a story about a stop motion animator whose increasingly organic creations begin to invade her reality. As I wrote in my review, “Stopmotion is a formally and narratively thrilling feature debut from one of...
STOPMOTION Interview: Director Robert Morgan on His First Feature, Jan Švankmajer, Sleeping 24 Hours
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Robert Morgan is entering his fourth decade as a filmmaker and stop motion animator. In that time, he’s made some fantastically disturbing and multi-award-winning short films, most of them stop motion, and some live action. As someone who loves horror and animation, I’ve been an admirer of Morgan’s for years, and his 2003 short film The Separation stands among my favorites of all time. So I was thrilled to have a chance to speak with him about his debut feature Stopmotion. The film mixes live action and stop motion animation to tell a story about a stop motion animator whose increasingly organic creations begin to invade her reality. As I wrote in my review, “Stopmotion is a formally and narratively thrilling feature debut from one of...
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