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Adrenaline Ride

Stopmotion

Robert MORGAN

UK202393min Korean Premiere

Synopsis

In the grand tradition of artists menaced by their own work (Peeping Tom, Black Swan, Mother, Hanover Square) Stopmotion (2023) finds a young woman who loses control of her stop motion film, inviting a frightening figure called The Ash Man into her life. Taking full advantage of the macabre, unreal nature of stop motion as an art, Stopmotion (2023) builds a story of horrific psychosis, while a Babadook-like figure lurks, building up its own creepy mythology of the three nights he comes to visit.

Program Note

Ella works as an assistant to her legendary model-animator mother, who is suffering from weakening health, trying to finish the last and most outstanding work of her illustrious career. Upon her passing, Ella decides to carry on and complete her mother’s final work. Ella struggles to overcome the grief of her mother’s passing until a creepy young girl shows up at her studio and gives unsolicited suggestions for extra motivation and unique direction in creating her masterpiece, which now features the nightmarish Ash Man.
Stopmotion is a dark and unique hybrid animation/live-action horror film by renowned UK artist Robert Morgan, who is making his feature film debut. Mr. Morgan’s use of stop-motion animation as both a theme and a medium creates an unsettling body horror film, further aided by outstanding performances by the cast, including an unforgettable James Swanton as the human-sized terrifying Ash Man. (Jongsuk Thomas NAM)

Diretor

Robert MORGAN

Director, writer and animator who works in both live-action and stop-motion animation. He studied animation at The University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, before making a series of highly acclaimed short films, which have been screened at hundreds of international film festivals. Between them his films have won around 50 international awards. Stopmotion (2023) is his first feature film.

Credit

Producer
Alain DE LA MATA, Christopher GRANIER-DEFERRE
Screenplay
Robert MORGAN, Robin KING
Cinematographer
Léo HINSTIN
Editor
Aurora VÖGELI
Sound
Ben BAIRD
Music
Lola DE LA MATA
Production Design
Felicity HICKSON
Cast
Aisling FRANCIOSI, Tom YORK, Caoilinn SPRINGALL
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