from Florentijn Hofman’s Bio page:

Imagine an episode of Sesame Street made by Gordon Matta-Clark in collaboration with Jim Henson and you might begein to understand the semi-collaborative performances with local communities that are central to Hofman’s work.

http://www.florentijnhofman.nl/dev/projects.php

The film Microcosmos is a documentary all about bugs and their lives, … and without any words, any music, and sound,

theres romance

theres comedy

theres aggression

theres haphazard accidents

amazing puppetry !

more Dwiggins marionettes

eyeballs.

(replacements.)

bit of storyboard-animatic.

the edit has finally, finally, finally, reached the point where it cannot be watched without music!

and im working with an amazingly talented friend and composer, Chris Marianetti (his last name is a puppet to add to the synthesis of irony ;)

http://www.chrismarianetti.com/

i had taken a long wide step back from the film,

but now i’ve jumped right back in.  still editing. its closer then it ever was.

red screen test from my film of the leaves.

these are the dolls in part of their environment in the film set.

Doing art direction was really interesting; there was a great team, director Luis Cordero, DP Owen Donovan, Producer Frank Luna, Script Supervisor Ryan Torres.

making decisions on your feet, on the clock was fantastic.

it was also a great ‘break’ from the fairly solitary existence of animators :)

these are the dolls made with the help of Sveta Yachnata for the film Gods and Dolls

There is a lot on my plate right now and sometimes it is difficult to be able to chew everything and swallow and digest and regurgitate because it seems the amount of food is neverending, so i think its safe to say that, basically, i am learning pacing-

both in my life, and in my film.  

With  some fantastically helpful feedback from Fran Krause, i kind of need to revamp—

the edit as it is is not working; rather, it is working, but not in the way i want it to, (which reminds me of the quote from The Phantom Tollbooth where the lead character asks ‘is this the right road?’ and the Whether (not weather) Man answers ‘there are no wrong roads! just right roads that might take you to the wrong places from where you want to be.)

 so yes, if i can pull off this edit, i will have learned heaps about what does it mean to visually convey a story.

For the next week and a half however, all my time is dedicated to a friends’ , Luis Cordero, qualifying (live action) film that i am doing art direction for, the title of which is Gods and Dolls.

 beep beep. have a good weekend.