Our super talented friend Lyle Piso send us his new amazing new video called The Empress. Please check this out and hope you enjoy it. Lyle congratulations on another amazing work and please keep us in the loop!

Please check out this Lyle Pisio film at:
http://vimeo.com/10402774
or you can access it from the films website:
http://www.empress.lilyposie.ca/EmpressMovie.html

Stop-motion animation 8min, 25sec

Trevor and Martha fall in love across a seady bar. The couples shyness is only overcome in a mutual dream where their shadows dance together.

The piece was inspired by and uses the song ‘The Empress’ by the Montreal based band Briga. We all cried when Brigitte Dajczer decided to forsake Calgary for Montreal, but when she sent me the song ‘The Empress’, most of the voices in my head said “wow, you really got to use this”. Without the song, the film would not exist, so I can’t stress the importance of the music enough. Check out Briga’s website brigamusic.com.

It took about a year and a half to finish this piece, what with making puppets, sets and testing different ideas out, in the end I had about 30 – 40 minutes of footage that I edited down to this.

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