Dollface
Animation Canada 2016 English 0:04:55
A woman wakes up covered in toys. Is she hungover? Depressed? Can she get up? Live action and stop-motion animation fuse together in this mad ride exploring self-doubt, delusion, misplaced inner voices and embroidery floss.
Une femme se réveille recouverte de jouets. A-t-elle la gueule de bois? Est-elle déprimée? Peut-elle se lever? L’action réelle et l’animation image par image s’entremêlent dans ce trajet fou qui explore le doute de soi, le délire, les voix intérieures malvenues et le fil à broder.
Kirsten Johnson, based in Toronto, comes to film via a strong background as a painter and performer. Her paintings appear in private and public collections all over the world. As an actor she has worked with directors Jeremy Podeswa, David Cronenberg and once was Ophelia in an infamous 8 hour DNA Theatre production of Hamlet. She turned to filmmaking as a way to fuse these different practices.
Her films have been shown at the Weiterstadt Film Festival, Montréal’s International Festival of Films on Art, the Female Eye Festival and Peterborough’s International Reframe Festival among others.
Whether making films, acting or painting she puts an emphasis on intellectual curiosity, emotional empathy and humour
Categories: 2015-2019, animation, Canada, Dollface, English, français, Johnson Tags: identité / identity, le corps / the body
