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Feature: Animate This
[Tue 04/08/2009 03:02:58]
Animation comes in many forms. INSIDEFILM finds out how the stop-motion variety brought a realistic edge to Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s surreal short stories
Unemployed 28-year old Dave Peck has got a price on his head. Although the stop-motion animated character buys a self-help book that promises to reveal the meaning of life for $9.99, the cost to bring Peck and almost a dozen surreal characters to life was considerably more: over $4000 a pop. And that’s just for the arm and leg sockets.
“The film is very much a real life drama-comedy yet it does have enough magic-realist elements to make stop-motion the perfect vehicle for it,” $9.99 co-producer Emile Sherman says. “If it was done in live action it would be difficult to pull of some of those magic-realist elements.”
The story, based on the work of Israeli writer Etgar Keret, revolves around the lives of several characters living in the same apartment complex. Among the motley crew are an old man and his disgruntled guardian angel, a debt-laden magician, and a heart-broken man and his relationship with hard partying two-inch tall students.
Director Tatia Rosenthal had won over Keret with two previous short films based on his works, Breaking the Pig and Crazy Glue, which led to the feature film concept for $9.99. Sherman came on board the project in 2005 after a meeting with Keret, leading to the first Australian-Israeli co-production.
Remarkably, the film was made for less than $4.5 million by taking a “guerrilla approach” to production, Sherman says. It included dispensing with a first assistant director, working with a very small crew on low wages, and working to an ultra-tight schedule. (Adam Elliot’s stop-motion feature Mary and Max – which is also being distributed by Icon and was released on April 9 – cost almost double at $8 million and took an extra 17 weeks to shoot.)
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