'A room with askew' was my 10th film, but only my second effort at stop-motion animation.I knew i wanted to explore something quite dark, surreal and visceral....In constucting the set and main figures i used a variety of organic 'body parts', eg animal skulls, sharks teeth, bones, shells, feathers etc. I also wanted to animate (or rather re-animate, like Dr. Frankenstein did) dead flesh, hence the use of
whole fish and chunks of raw disembodied meat/flesh.
In many ways animation is all about breathing life/spirit into the lifeless...a kind of transitory death defying process...but ultimately and forever an illusion.
I was also interested in exploring references to early photography and its development/evolution into cinema, hence the use of the Eadweard Muybridge 'motion study' photographic sequences as 'moving' pictures framed on the walls of the set.
'A room with askew' 5:20 mins. 16mm. 2006.. all production credits by gregory godhard.
