Stopmotion movie storyline. Ella Blake (Aisling Franciosi) is a talented stop-motion animator living in the shadow of her ailing and overbearing mother, herself an influential animator. Doing her bidding, day after day, there’s little space for Ella to work on her own stuff or to have a life of her own.
She is her mother’s hands, moving her creations one fifteenth of an inch at a time. She befriends a little girl, finds a boyfriend, but these short tastes of independence don’t last. When her mother dies, however, Ella is not released from servitude. Instead, she increasingly struggles to keep a grasp on what is real, and what is part of the film she’s creating.
Robert Morgan, known for his work on ABCs of Death 2 and many short films that have been a staple of horror festivals, including the truly grotesque The Cat with Hands, melds stop-motion animation with a haunting character portrait of a woman on the verge of a homicidal meltdown. As Ella, Franciosi (best known for her harrowing leading role in The Nightingale) brings a fractured intensity to her performance, playing a woman so used to being pushed about that freedom is frightening.
Stopmotion is a 2023 British live-action/adult animated horror film directed by Robert Morgan in his feature-length debut. Morgan also wrote the script with Robin King. The film stars Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, Tom York, Caoilinn Springall, James Swanton, Joshua J Parker, Jaz Hutchins, Bridgitta Roy and combines live action and stop motion animation.
Stopmotion had its world premiere at the 2023 Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on 24 September 2023. It was then screened at the 2023 BFI London Film Festival on 7 October 2023. It was released in select theaters in the United States on February 23, 2024 by IFC Films.
Stopmotion (2024)
Directed by: Robert Morgan
Starring: Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, Tom York, Caoilinn Springall, James Swanton, Joshua J Parker, Jaz Hutchins, Bridgitta Roy
Screenplay by: Robert Morgan, Robin King
Production Design by: Felicity Hickson
Cinematography by: Léo Hinstin
Film Editing by: Aurora Vögeli
Costume Design by: Saffron Cullane
Set Decoration by: Jo Berglund
Art Direction by: Ben Andrews, Solomon Cuming
Music by: Lola de la Mata
MPAA Rating: R for violent / disturbing content, gore, some language, sexual material and brief drug material.
Distributed by: IFC Films (United States)
Release Date: February 23, 2024
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