No-budget inspiration: Blood Tea and Red String, a stop-motion animated feature
Christiane Cegavske’s Blood Tea and Red String is one of just a handful of genuinely auteur stop-motion animated feature length films ever made, and she did it completely by herself (aside from the audio) over a course of twelve years. That is like some major helzyeah.
I highly recommend checking it out. It’s kinda like if David Cronenberg and David Lynch had a baby that had a fever dream after watching James and the Giant Peach, put through a goth filter.
And here’s the filmmaker discussing the project at Anime Los Angeles, 2007…
And if you read this in time, you should check out her Kickstarter page for her new stop-motion feature… kickstarter.com/projects/978812285/seed-in-the-sand
Also check out these earlier “no-budget inspiration” articles…
No-budget inspiration: One Thousand Years, a narrative feature