short film reference: Madame Tutli-Putli

Since I decided to put my thesis more on the narrative side, I've been looking at short films that deal with the psychological status of human being. Madame Tutli-Putli is another film that I found and like very much. It's a stop motion animation made by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. The main role, Madame Tutli-Putli got on the night train with her earthly posessions, and run into an adventure that lies between the real world and the surreal one. The filmmakers play a lot with the metaphore, for example, travel on the train (reffers to the journey in her mind, on my interpertation); tremendous amout of luggages ( her past; memories and obsessions) and the attack ( her inner conflic); almost every part of the narrative contains metaphors. The filmakers also showed their incredible abilities of controlling the art direction, camera movements, characters design and detail modeling skills. The movements of the cameras and the characters are the parts that amazed me the most. They are so well-designed and have such a nature looks and feel even with the beautiful but bizzare; strong visual style. I think that's why it got nominated by Oscar this year. Visit the official website here

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