The recent
@creative_capital award announcement comes as Eva Louise Hall /
@theseacircus (ā12 Animation) begins editing the teaser trailer for her upcoming stop-motion film, āPluck.ā While her work on the preview may suggest the animation is nearly finished, Hall emphasizes that the project is unfolding on a longer timeline, with the $50,000 Creative Capital grant supporting its development and eventual completion over several years. (š in bio)
āThey look for artists with ambitious projects, someone they can collaborate with over a longer period, beyond just six months or a year. For someone like me, who works with a particularly laborious process, this kind of support makes a project like this feasible,ā said Hall, Assistant Professor and Chair of
@kcaianimation .
For her previous film, āMira,ā Hall worked alone, chipping away at the filmmaking process during nights and weekends over the course of three years (āa one-woman circus,ā she says). For Pluck, she estimates it would take five years to complete if she were to work the same way.
But this time sheās not alone.
The Creative Capital grant now gives her the flexibility to hire a small team of artists, enabling a hopeful two-year timeline for completion. āWe have quite a few graduates who are still in the area, so Iāve been talking with them about fabrication and having them start this summer, working with me full time to carve out a large portion of the film in terms of filming and animation,ā she said.
Pluck is a stop-motion surrealist horror short that follows Amaia, a talented athlete at the height of her career, as she struggles to conceal a horrifying terminal diagnosis that grotesquely starts mutating her body into that of a chicken. The film is being created using physical sets, animated puppetry, and experimental media, all handcrafted frame by frame.
Renowned for supporting original and ambitious proposals,
@creative_capital provides artists with up to $50,000 in unrestricted project funding, along with professional development services and community-building opportunities to foster risk-taking, groundbreaking work
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