Puppenhead

PUPPENHEAD

Duration: 7'50

Berlin, 1934: JOHN FLAUS plays Goethe, the puppeteer whose mechanical clockwork knife-throwing act is under surviellence by a slimy SS agent (Heinze Boek). The showdown comes at a New York presentation of the show.

Made at Swinburne School of Film & Television (now VCA Film School, Victoria, Australia) in 1990. Made entirely on Bolex cameras (fitted with 10mm lens), Puppenhead combined traditional stop-motion puppet animation, 'pixillation' (animated live human subjects) and 1/2 speed undercranking. Actors and film both moved at 1/2 speed so that when played back at 24 frames per second, they appeared semi-animated.

The film went on to appear at fourteen international film festivals and was screened at the opening of the 1991 New York Film Festival.

Festivals include - New York, London, Annecy, Turin, Hong Kong, Seattle, Oberhausen.

Puppenhead also won the ATOM award for innovation, and was nominated for three Australian Film Institute Awards - best film in non-feature category, best sound in non-feature category and best editing in non-feature category. It was scored by Ian Eccles-Smith and edited by Graeme Jackson. David Atkinson and John Bird acted as producers, Brian Robinson was script advisor.

Puppenhead was picked up by Canal+ in Spain.

Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Language: English

Contact Information: David Cox: (writer & director) davidalbertcox@gmail.com

Director website:

http://www.davidalbertcox.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Puppenhead
• David Cox
• John Flaus
• Heize Boek
• Walter Repich
• Ian Eccles-Smith
• Graeme Jackson
• Sarah Johnson
• Brian Robinson

[Johnnystrychnine]

My middle finger to you john, CUNT!