by Alison Nastasi Feb 25th 2010 // 4:02PM

When I’m not glued to my computer writing about movies, I’m stuck to my studio chair — up to my ears in the ramshackle contraptions I create that often take over my entire table, floor and other areas of the apartment. Part of my art repertoire is creating miniature worlds out of anything I can find and inserting characters strung together from a bizarre assortment of materials. A demented dollhouse disguised as art? Perhaps. But I’m not content to toy with their floppy, awkward bodies as I once did in my younger years. In order to breathe life into these figures, I manipulate them for stop-motion video shoots.

Plastic toys inhabit the world of Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar in their 2009 stop-motion animation film, A Town Called Panic, which revolves around the adventures that a group of plastic toys (the essential Cowboy, Indian and Horse) encounter as they go about their daily lives. It’s a zany good time.

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