Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets



Over the break, I went to MoMa to see Quay brother’s production, and they are mostly focus on stop-motion films. It is a commonly known now, which takes massive amount of time to produce a short film. Lucky, I was able to sit down on few of the many films that are present in the museum. Even though doll characters are without facial expression, Quay brothers use other elements to have the figure as alive as possible. It was with careful and moveable staging, so without moving the camera, they could have the figure move into different environment, and this is only one of the tricks they did.

One of their film, a dance film that draws most of my attention while I was there. The flow of the dance film was so smooth from one shot to another, perhaps is the dance that was beautifully in the film got most of my attention. But the story was so direct and clear even the shot was jumping back and force between all of the characters. And that was the moment I was asked to leave the closing museum.

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