{"id":3549,"date":"2009-07-25T08:49:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T21:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2009-07-25T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T22:00:01","slug":"weekend-fright-flick-stopmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/25\/weekend-fright-flick-stopmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fright Flick: StopMo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Backbrain&#8217;s Weekend Fright Flick presentations have been veering into double features lately, largely because some great short films have been turning up and I&#8217;m too impatient to save them for later.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend is no exception. Expect a follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly though we have a brilliant piece of CGI animation combined with stopmotion to produce a film that celebrates that greatest of stop-motion characters, King Kong, and gives him an opponent created via the technology that replaced the one that bought the greatest of giant apes to life in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>StopMo<\/strong> (US-2008; short [5:42 min]; dir. Adel Ben Abdullah, Brice Boisset, Anouk Eyraud, Romain Hua and Vincent Secher)<\/p>\n<p>Made by five students at Supinfocom Arles in 2008, <em>StopMo<\/em> follows the adventures of a future archaeologist who \u201cgives life back to an FX cinema studio&#8221; that has been buried under ice &#8212; in the aftermath of global warming, no doubt. This awakening results in a battle between a stopmotion animated <em>King Kong<\/em> (1933) and a computer-animated T-Rex from <em>Jurassic Park<\/em> (1993). Who will win this time &#8217;round?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5025456&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5025456&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/5025456\">StopMo The Movie<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1833261\">AdelBen<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fantastic!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: via Todd Tennant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Backbrain&#8217;s Weekend Fright Flick presentations have been veering into double features lately, largely because some great short films have been turning up and I&#8217;m too impatient to save them for later. This weekend is no exception. Expect a follow-up. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/25\/weekend-fright-flick-stopmo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,44,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}