Last weekend I was in the Flip Animation Festival in Wolverhampton, one of the speakers there was Osbert Parker, a three times British Academy Award Nominated director. He talked us about his work and his process, and I have to admit that we were all very impressed.
Osbert's work is a mixture of cut-out animation with live action, mostly to create imaginary landscapes within commercials and his own short films.His latest films "Yours Truly" and "Film Noir" have a very unique, experimenting and interesting visual style.
"Yours Truly" (2006)
The film is about a character's burst through yesterday's emulsion to tell the conflicting story of Frank and Charlie who sacrifice their morals to find love as two worlds collide.
It 's made out from 16mm ‘in camera’ reconstructions of photo cut-outs and real objects in miniature environments.
"Film Noir" (2007)
Film Noir is a mixed media animated adventure. Is created in-camera combining live action with animation, found objects with photo cut-outs that are weaved into a non linear narrative and manipulated into a dark story of romance and psychological tension that unfolds into a cinematic world never seen before.
Parker's Film noir is a pure extract of the best and most characteristic qualities of this classic genre in the history of cinema. This short reveals the genre's most typical methods (shooting, narration, acting) and applies its own creative code (animation, layering and overlapping of image fragments) in order to build a unique noir atmosphere and thrills.
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