A few semesters ago I took this really interesting class on the History of animation. Seeing Chris’s post on Tim Burton reminded me of something I had seen in that class. Tim Burton is doing his take on Alice and Wonderland, which is supposed to be a dark departure from the familiar Disney version by. In that class on animation I saw a version by a Czech artist named Jan Svankmajer that seems to similarly exploit the disturbing nature of the Carroll’s original text. Svankmajer recaptures this disturbing character by celebrating the grotesque. Stop motion animation is usually done with clay puppets, which Svankmajer replaces with taxidermy animals and pieces of meat. The effect is this gritty and dirty; grotesque in a Salvador Dali meets Eastern Europe way.
-Christian P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wHMgTPF-s
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