Smile stealers is a live action animation short film.
It combines analogue special effects and overhead projection/animation with digital video and after effects animation.
Smile Stealers is a short story about a girl who has a destiny to become a warrior.
Her name is Tyr, like the Norse God of War.
She battles the sky, saves a unicorn, escapes a Paper Moon photo booth trap and fights the Queen of “A Moon” and her Moon Children
to set the smiles free.
By encompassing song, dance, theatre design, animation (both digital and analogue projections) we strive to create a Gestamkunstwerk;
a total work of art that encompasses all aspects/dimensions of the arts. We are influences by the mythical realism of William Blake.
Which he used to describe the outcome of the process that brought his hallucinations into reality with drawings and paintings.
Michel Gondry brings fantastical storybook imagination to life with stop animated crafted cardboard props.
Jean Cocteau used simple analogue techniques to force perspective and create illusion.
We would like to surface character’s natural cartoon, making them larger than life. Making life large.
The main members of our group are Allison Moore, Jasa Baka, Tyr Jami and Todd MacDonald.
ALLISON MOORE is an artist, educator and cultural operator. Originally from the west coast, she is based in Montreal, and has produced projects in Ecuador, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Europe. She is an active member of Graff Printing Studios and has developed new projects in video, animation and interactive computing as an invited artist at Studio XX, Oboro New Media Labs and the Society of Arts and Technology in Montreal. Allison is co-founder of Egotrip Productions with Arthur Desmarteaux, collaborating together since 2006 to produce puppet performances, public art and exhibitions. In the summer, she teaches animation and special effects at Galiano Island Film School (G.I.F.T.S. School) in British Columbia.
Jasa Baka is a co-founder of Parlour Treats collective, playwright, director, theatre designer and producer.
She also provides live visual accompaniment for musical performances/bands using overhead analog projections
of her drawings and other techniques. She uses the same analogue projection techniques to create tableau
for stylized photography that she directs.
Tyr Jami is gifted musician, tap dancer, and actor. She has been studying and playing cello since the age of seven.
The past year she has been studying classical and jazz music at Concordia University.
Co-founder of Ache Records & Drip Audio/Universal recording artists, The Winks, she has been writing, singing, recording and playing songs
since 1999. Tyr is also co-founder of the multi-disciplinary art collective Parlour Treats with her sister Jasa Baka.
They have been collaborating since Tyr's birth in 1984.
Todd Macdonald wears many musical hats: he’s a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, recording & live sound engineer,
producer and co-founder of Ache Records & Drip Audio/Universal recording artists, The Winks |
