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TEPHRASECT Tephrasect ©2004 - Justin Curfman 24 Minutes Stop-Motion Animation
Want to see "Tephrasect" in full-resolution DVD instead of this shitty YouTube junk, and at the same time make a greatly appreciated contribution to "Ticks"? Then...
3 Films: Tephrasect, Platelets, & Zugskin - DVD - $10
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Awards: Winner Best Animated Film |
Festivals: 2004- No Budget Film Festival (Stockholm, Sweden) 2004- Nihilist Film Festival (Santa Monica, CA) 2004- Atlanta Underground Film Festival (Atlanta, GA) 2005- MOOOvie Underground Film Festival (Romania) 2006 - Emerging Artisans Festival (Arkansas) |
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Reviews:
".... filmmaker Justin Curfman's stop-motion animation suggests the jarring soundtracks of David Lynch's earliest shorts and the work of the Brothers Quay.... Curfman's real talent is a surreal, nimble visual imagination that appears virtually limitless..." - Felicia Feaster,
(Justin says: Thank You) "These short films are, in my humble opinion, some of the best short, low budget films to come along in a long time. And even better, they are entirely stop-motion!" - Randy Robinson,
"...grade A weirdness over here, folks."
"...like a montage of ideas and styles linked together with a clay - animated protagonist, who resides in the realms of the subconscious. Were it a painting it would be a collage of inkblot tests passed over with insanely detailed brush-strokes. Tephrasect is just plain gorgeous. It evokes a sense of admiration and wonder in me even though all that I’m seeing is in black and white, and takes place in a most unappealing, blandly set up miniature wasteland. As I said before, it manages to find beauty in ugliness... everyone should watch this."
"... stop-motion surrealism populates this bizarre short, focusing on the mundane life of an average guy - if the average guy lives in rotting, rusting, desolation, mired in a relationship with a woman who knits cockroach blankets... his visual elements are certainly striking... worth a look... three (out of five) stars..." - John Oak Dalton,
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