Blood Tea and Red String
Blood Tea and Red String is an animated film by Christiane Cegavske from the year 2006. He plays in a wonderland and is about a group of creatures that inhabit under an oak tree and get out of three mice commissioned to make a puppet. However, the Oak residents fall in love with the perfect doll and deny them the mice, after which the mice steal. In response, the Oak residents embark on a journey to retrieve the doll.
The film was shot over twelve years in stop -motion and has no dialogue from the soundtrack is from Mark Growden.
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Action
In the center of the story are four furry " creatures that inhabit under the oak " ( Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak ) and one day visit of three white mice in a carriage turtles get. The mice entrust them to make a puppet based on a portrait of a woman. When the Oak residents have, however, completed the doll, they can no longer be separated from it and reject the mice. In the doll sew an egg one, that the brook has washed up next to their home, then they fix the doll on their doorstep. However, the mice steal the doll in the night and it hijack them into her house. When the Oak residents notice the theft, make three of them on the way to retrieve them.
Along the way they fall into an enchanted garden, from whose fruits they eat. They fall into a deep sleep and be devoured by carnivorous plants, but it saves a conjuring frog who takes them into his hut and gives them to eat before they move on. While the Oak residents roam the land, dine, the mice with the puppet, blood-red drink tea and play cards. A bird -eating spider finally points the way to the house of the mice the Oak residents. There emerges from the belly of a bird doll with her face, flees through the window. The Oak residents follow him and find him lifeless in the spider's web, the exchange it against one of the enchanted fruit. They bring him to the hut of the frog, but even this can not do anything more for the bird. Meanwhile, two of the mice are asleep, the third examined with the doll on the spider, and replace the turtle of the mice against a few feathers of the bird. She then makes her way to the oak.
There, the fur-bearing animals bury the bird by letting carry him away from the stream. In the meantime, the two mice wake up and set out to search for their cronies. However, you will find only the turtle in the threads of the spider and her snatch the animal. The third mouse arrives at the house of Oak residents and gives them the doll. However, as also reach the other two mice, the oak, there is a dispute about the doll, which then breaks down. The Oak residents give back to the mice, which then return to their home.
Production
Twist
Cegavske began after graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in June 1993, with the filming of Blood Tea and Red String. It financed the film without external funding and turned the settings with a Bolex camera in 16mm format. The 30 cm size figures she made by hand, in which they extended the script with each additional figure and modified. The majority of the scenes she took in her former home, a warehouse in San Francisco, on. Overall, the work took part in the stop-motion production around twelve years to complete, with Cergavske however also pursued other projects, such as the participation in Asia Argento's The Heart Is Deceitful Above movie All Things. For the soundtrack of Blood Tea and Red String of folk musicians drew from San Francisco Mark Growden responsible, which he used mainly flutes, with which the game of the movie characters was highlighted.
Publication
Blood Tea and Red String celebrated on February 3, 2006 at the San Francisco Indie Festival premiere. As a result, it was shown at a number of other independent film festivals, such as Sitges in 2006 and the Weekend of Fear 2007.
Reviews
In the reviews was repeatedly pointed to the influence of the Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer on January Cegavskes work. The style of the film has been described as grotesque, fairy tale and at the same time bleak. Blood Tea and Red String received little attention, the judgments were, however, consistently positive:
"A wordless stop -motion animated feature shot on 16- millimeter movie, " Blood Tea and Red String " is wondrously obsolete, a scruffy rebuttal to the digital suavity and celebrity shenanigans of the Pixar era. "
"As a wordless 16 -millimeter movie " Blood Tea and Red String " miraculously unfashionable, a unembellished Anthithese for digital politeness and asked the star cult of Pixar era. "
" Often grotesque, though never in the " Sick and Twisted "juvenile gross- out fashion, dreamlike feature is as lovingly crafted as it is unsettlingly sour -sweet, with Mark Growden 's avant -garde folk score in perfect synch. "
"This film is - often grotesque, though never on the ill - crazy adolescent disgust tour - so adorable made as it is simultaneously disturbing to bittersweet way. Mark Grow Dens avant-garde folk music moves to in perfect harmony. "
Awards
Blood Tea and Red String won at the San Francisco Indie Fest 2006 the Audience Prize and the award for best animated film. Christiane Cegavske received in the same year the prize for Best Director at the Spudfest. On the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal 2006 Blood Tea and Red String finished in second place in the public vote.