PAPERCUT PICTURES
Films
TORONTO ALICE
Director/Animator: Jennifer Linton
Voice of Alice: Nicole Bauman
Voice of Tweedledee/Tweedledum: Matt Speirs
Sound: Karl Mohr
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
Duration: 5:26 min.
Year: 2015
The character of Alice from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass' is transported to contemporary Toronto. Whilst riding a streetcar, Alice encounters a pair of strange characters who engage her in an equally strange debate over whether or not they exist. The dialogue is borrowed directly from Carroll, but given a fresh and funny new twist in this short stop-motion animation.
DOMESTIKIA, CHAPTER 3: LA PETITE MORT
Director/Animator: Jennifer Linton
Animator: Carla Veldman
Composer: Zev Farber
Genre: Animation/Dark Fantasy/Erotica/Alternative
Duration: 4:35 min.
Year: 2013
Our heroine Madelaine sits reading in her parlor, when an unexpected visitor arrives. So begins the
surreal narrative of La Petite Mort, a tale of love, betrayal, and one vengeful butterfly. Combining
elements of erotica, horror, and dark humour, this film capitalizes on the stiff, artificial movement of
paper puppets to create a strange, dream-like world. La Petite Mort was inspired by the Surrealist animations
of the Polish and Czech masters Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowyck and Jan Svankmajer, Japanese
tentacle erotica, and those strange, middle-of-the-night dreams one sometimes has after spicy food.
DOMESTIKIA: THE INCIDENT IN THE NURSERY
Director/Animator: Jennifer Linton
Genre: Animation/Dark Fantasy/Alternative
Duration: 2:02 min.
Year: 2012
Domestikia: the Incident in the Nursery uses paper cutouts and articulated paper puppets in a stop-motion animation to explore the strange, dreamlike and uncanny realm of the Domestic Gothic. With a healthy dose of black humour, it tackles the anxieties and challenges experienced by parents of young children.
