Thursday, February 21, 2008
Film / Internet 'Madame Tutli-Putli': Watch a complete Oscar nominee right now
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM
When I reviewed the 2008 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (playing at Atlanta's Midtown Art Cinema), I had no idea that one of my favorites was readily available on the Internet. "Madame Tutli-Putli," by far my favorite in the Animated Short Film category, has already found an online life of its own, according to Andrew O'Hehir's Beyond the Multiplex blog at Salon.com:
In the everybody's-an-insider era of entertainment consumption, the social and cultural role of short films seems to be changing rapidly. For once, that's mostly a good thing. For the last couple of years, Magnolia Pictures has released a program of all 10 Oscar-nominated shorts (both live-action and animated), with surprising theatrical success. Some producers and directors of shorts market their work aggressively on the Internet; one of this year's animated nominees, the Canadian film "Madame Tutli-Putli," has become a YouTube hit.
Not only can you see the complete film on YouTube (in two parts), there are plentiful behind-the-scenes clips about filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski and their arduous process of making "Madame Tutli-Putli." Their painstaking efforts over literally years pays off. Yesterday, Creative Loafing's Scott Henry and I, during a little watercooler talk, were marveling at the complexity and subtlety of the film's camera angles and tracking shots, especially its nature as a stop-motion animated film, which has a herky-jerky reputation. I still think "Madame Tutli-Putli" is too strange and unnerving to win the statuette, but maybe its online following suggests an outside chance. I'd love to admit my prediction was wrong while we liveblog the Oscars Sunday night.
Here's the "Tutli-Putli" trailer, to provide a quick appetizer:
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