A still from Hanging By A Thread
king with stop motion, have a pure cinematographic vision: just think of Borowczyk's cinema and his attention to close-ups and details, which is typical of animators. What's your view on that?
work. Needless to say, I fit both characteristics. I never thought of myself as being particularly patient but now, having completed two awardwinning stop-motion animated films and working enthusiastically on the next, I realize that I must be extremely patient. I guess I am totally hooked! I embrace this medium because, although it is the hardest thing I have ever done, it also is the most gratifying and challenging, allowing me to realize my artistic vision. "The Reading" (2010), my first stop-motion short film, took me 15 months to complete and is 22 minutes long. It took me two years and three months to finish my most recent piece, "Hanging By A Thread" (2013), which is just under 10 minutes long.
Hybrids created from different genres are always most interesting to me, one example being animation and documentary films. Despite advancements with computer animation, I find that there is much potential in stop-motion animation particularly when you arrive at it from the visual arts. I have been a sculptor, painter, mixed media artist, etc., all my life. Although I have always felt most inspired by film and filmmakers, I did not branch out to stop-motion animation and film simply because I wanted to try out a new medium. I got to it because throughout the course of development of my diverse visual art creations, I became compelled to give the "Clothespin Freaks" a voice of their own. For me, there was undoubtedly no better medium with which to accomplish this, than with stopmotion animation and film.
We find the relationships between animators and filmmakers really interesting. While these two categories seemed to be separate in the past, nowadays the potential of animation and even graphic novel is not underrated, finally. We have ever appreciated the contamination between these creative worlds, and we believe that animators, in particular artists wor-
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