******REDWOOD-SIZED SPOILERS!****** My wife teaches high school animation, and we’ve both been fans of Laika Studios; a San Francisco-based production company specializing in stop-motion puppet animation. 17 years ago, it was love at first sight for both of us with “Coraline” (2009), Laika’s debut feature film based on the surreal Neil Gaiman novella about a…
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A crew of animated animals goes with the “Flow” (2024)…
******MANY SPECIES OF SPOILERS!****** From the mind of 30-year old Latvian filmmaker (and composer) Gints Zilbalodis and cowritten by Matīss Kaža, “Flow” (aka “Straume”) is a genuine passion project. Made using free online Blender software, the movie has an expensive, rotoscoped look to it. With no dialogue–let alone humans–“Flow” has a unique soundscape of real…