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.
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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.
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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