Spike Jonze’s new animated short, MOURIR AUPRES DE TOI (To Die by Your Side) has its U.S. theatrical premiere at IFC Center. The short will play before IFC Center’s regular features starting June 10 as part of IFC's ongoing “Short Attention Span Cinema” Program.
Directed by Spike Jonze with Simon Cahn and inspired by French Designer Olympia Le-Tan. The short is set in Paris’s storied Shakespeare and Co. bookstore and concerns the adventures of a skeleton (voiced by Jonze) who springs off the cover of “Macbeth” and falls for a damsel from “Dracula.” Filmed in painstaking stop-motion animation, the film required a new stitched felt character for each shot-some 3,000 felt parts in total. “Felt is not the easiest thing to animate,” Mr. Jonze noted. “It’s very flimsy.” A “making-of” video is below:
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