Stop motion

Having researched the beginnings of film and various different types of experimental film making, I was keen to focus my research on stop motion films, as this was what I wanted to for my own experimental film.

During our research into the history of film we were shown 'La Jetée' directed by Chris Marker. It's a 28 minute sci-fi film consisting mostly of still photograhs with a voiceover.

One of my favourite short films from my childhood was the 1982 'Vincent' film made by Tim Burton. It's a six minute long stop motion based upon a poem written by Tim Burton himself. The film was narrated by Vincent Price who features in the poem as well.

As well as looking as well known film makers, I also looked at many smaller scale stop motion films, such as;

Autumn story, which is a stop motion film made with chalk drawings on a chalk board.

Post-it-note pixel art style stop motion film.

Paper horse stop motion short using cut out paper.

 

I also discovered a graffiti artist known as Blu who creates amazingly intricate graffiti based stop motion films.