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Sparrow
Director:
Marinda Botha
Country:
South Africa
year: 2014
Running Time:
2'31"
Technique:
Stop-motion (animated objects, puppets, clay animation, etc.)
Category:
Short film [up to 10 min]
Producer:
Marinda Botha
Distributor:
Marinda Botha
The program:
Synopsis
Sparrow is a short film using Cut-out and Puppet Stop Motion Animation as the main techniques, interspersed with live footage. Everything you see is hand-made. It is a non-narrative piece, dealing with the ethereal transgression between our reality and that of “the other”.
Director's BIO
About Marinda:
Marinda briefly dabbled in film before obtaining her degree in Performing Arts at the University of Pretoria. She then promptly ran away to the UK, to further her training in Puppetry and performance in various genres.
She spent 8 years working as an actress, voice artist and puppeteer in the UK, gaining experience in acting for film and television, creating and performing a one-woman show, amongst other puppetry projects.
Marinda is passionate about the moving image, about storytelling, about the human condition revealed in the tiny gestures we make when we think no one’s watching. Marinda has 15 years experience as a professional puppeteer and teaches 2D Animation and Screen Acting at The Open Window School of Visual Communication in South Africa.
https://www.behance.net/marindabotha
https://www.facebook.com/PuppetrybyMarinda
Contacts
marindabotha@gmail.com
