“Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski of Clyde Henry Productions have recently completed their first professional film, Madame Tutli-Putli, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
In addition to their role as filmmakers, Chris and Maciek wear many hats—as animators, sculptors, collage artists, screenplay writers and art directors.”
“Madame Tutli-Putli took shape with a train trip across Canada via the northern trail in 2002. Lavis and Szczerbowski lived on the train for the best part of a month to discover the distinct rhythm of travel that would define Madame Tutli-Putli’s journey.
They absorbed the Canadian landscape, discovering, for example, the particular feeling of isolation and disquiet that comes from a train standing still deep in the woods 100 km north of Lake Superior.”
The film will debut at The Cannes Film Festival International Critics’ Week in the next few days.
(May 17-25, 2007)
These two lads look as if they could use a wash and brush up before they hit the promenade in Cannes.
At the time of writing, all the movie clips on the website were broken or (maddeningly) dumping you back onto the page you’d just started from, but you can still read about this fascinating and painstaking project here.
Good fortune in Cannes, Messieurs!
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for telling everyone about the cartoon drawing group!
It won’t always be on Tuesdays, I’ll schedule it for different nights so that everyone gets a chance to come.
There was a picnic one scheduled this Sunday - now changed to 1.30pm at Danceworks (just off Oxford Street). Maybe you can make that. Otherwise, thanks again, see you at a session one day I hope.
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