Magda (2004)
October 14, 2004Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Joe Frank
Narrator / Writer

Paul Harrod
Ring Master (voice)

Chel White
Street Man (voice) / Director / Producer / Editor

Mark Eifert
Director of Photography

Jeff Riley
Animation

Teresa Drilling
Animation

Bartek Prusiewicz
Art Direction

Steve Miller
Editor

Courtney Von Drehle
Original Music Composer

Lance Limbocker
Sound Designer / Sound Mixer

Suzanne Twining
Set Dresser

Jeremy Evan Taylor
Set Dresser

Matt Barbee
Assistant Camera

Jim Barrett
Colorist

Jake Buff
Colorist

Andy Pratt
Negative Cutter

Bill Scott
Color Timer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Magda is a 2004 stop motion animated short film by independent filmmaker Chel White, from a story written and read by monologist Joe Frank.
A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beautiful circus contortionist in this stop-motion animation of wooden manikins.
Short of the Week's Serafima Serafimova describes Magda as "A love story so beautiful and incredibly touching in its simplicity… it’s a real gem of untarnished beauty."
Visually, the film explores the use of extreme telephoto lenses, creating enigmatic scenes that reveal themselves over time, and ghostly figures drifting in-and-out of focus. Animation World Network describes the aesthetic as "swimming in the rack-focus sea of a telephoto lens with an extremely shallow depth of field. This can feel like the equivalent of driving through a thick fog, but it is also a very efficient means of directing the eye to the relevant action in some very busy sets." The characters in the film are derived from basic, pose-able wooden manikins found in any art supply store, but extensively redesigned and rigged to be usable as stop motion puppets.
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