Amy Lockhart - Shrivelled Creatures and Cut Paper Animations

Amy Lockhart's is a Canadian artist and filmmaker. Her art-brut drawings and paintings are playful, reminiscent of Lee Godie, squishing figures into awkward tube shapes and detailing the fleshy fold-overs. Her most recent animation Walk for Walk continues this grotesquerie into a stream-of-conscious parade of licking, skipping, and merry-making.

"This 16mm film was created using over 1,000 hand painted cut-outs and paper puppets with paper backgrounds. I recorded the sounds in an isolation box I built in my living room, out of cardboard, insulation and drywall." The soundtrack is also an astonishing collage of unexpected Foley sound and warbly electronics. You can view more animations, including her collaborations with Marc Bell, on her blog.

Comments

[ntheate]

I'm really sick of this sort of stuff

[owltopus]

i love this kind of stuff

[Jrld]

This reminds me of blah blah blah.

But yeah, it reminds me of a short animation by Pritt Tender, which I hope someone might know where to find.

[doomsday fartshadow]

i'm a little sick of the naive-cutesy-doodle trend too, but this one was done pretty well, is pretty charming, and is consistant of her other work.

[fatty jubbo]

fartshadow-

I agree, it's an overused and lazy style in most cases and my boredom and bullshit detectors pop up immediately. Lockhart's work stands above the rest by being inventive and strange.

[Mathew Gill]

Animation is great exhibition of cartoons .So I love it.