Madame Tutli-Putli

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Movie
Original title Madame Tutli-Putli
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 18 minutes
Rod
Director Chris Lavis
Maciek Szczerbowski
script Chris Lavis
Maciek Szczerbowski
Maciek Tomaszewski
production Marcy Page
for the National Film Board of Canada
music David Bryant
Jean-Frédéric Messier

Madame Tutli-Putli is a 2007 Canadian animated short film directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski .

action

Madame Tutli-Putli is standing at the station in a red dress, a pearl necklace, with black pumps and hats and all her belongings. It almost seems as if all the memories and mementos have gathered with her, a small moth buzzes around her, and soon after the train arrives. A little later, Madame Tutli-Putli is in a now completely overcrowded compartment with her belongings. Across from her sits a man whom she once knew as a young tennis player and who makes obscene hints to her. An old man is sleeping, a boy is reading a book. Two men sit in the luggage net and play chess, with the pieces being set again and again due to the restless movement of the train and the game developing automatically until one of the two players loses.

The train suddenly stops on the open track when a rock on the rails prevents it from continuing. Madame Tutli-Putli suddenly gets scared when she sees a sign on the train warning of pickpockets. In fact, someone is moving down the aisle and a little later green gas is pouring into the compartment. When Madame Tutli-Putli wakes up, her compartment is empty. All of your belongings are gone, and so are the passengers. She has a vision in which the tennis player's stomach is cut open and organs removed by the beings who stopped the train. Confused, she hurries out of the compartment and through the train, crosses various empty compartments and opens numerous doors. She collapses in the empty dining room. Suddenly she recognizes the little moth in the hall and the sight gives her strength to get up. It follows the animal until it merges with glaring light and apparently becomes a winged being itself.

production

Madame Tutli-Putli was the film debut of Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. Both worked on the stop motion animated film from 2002 to 2007 . Among other things, both drove for around a month in northern Canada with VIA Rail Canada . Around a year was spent working on the set and dolls. The actual stop-motion work took another two years.

For the first time in the history of animation films, the puppets had “real” eyes that were digitally inserted. The innovation, which was praised as “groundbreaking” (groundbreaking, innovative), went back to painter Jason Walker, who was responsible for the film's visual effects.

The film premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in May 2007 .

Awards

The film won the Grand Prize at Cinanima in 2007 and received a Genie Award in 2008 in the “ Best Animated Short Film ” category .

In 2008 Madame Tutli-Putli was nominated for an Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ”, but could not prevail against Peter and the Wolf .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See bcdb.com
  2. ^ A b Peter Howell: Cannes at 60 . thestar.com.
  3. ↑ See Puppet and set design on films.nfb.ca
  4. ↑ See Puppets in Motion on films.nfb.ca