This stop-motion animated film takes viewers on an exhilarating existential journey into the fully imagined, tactile world of Madame Tutli-Putli. As she travels alone on the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past, she faces both the kindness and menace of strangers. Finding herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure, adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons. —National Film Board of Canada
Since 1997 Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski have formed the artistic partnership called Clyde Henry Productions. Under this nom de plume the pair has created award-winning films, ads, illustrations, comics and music videos. Their first professional film, Madame Tutli-Putli, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (Marcy Page, producer), has received international acclaim – over 50 awards to date, among them the Best Short Film and Rail d’or prizes at the Cannes International Film Festival and a 2007 Academy Award® Nomination.
Lavis and Szczerbowski are currently working with the NFB and Silo Corporation on a feature film project entitled The White Circus, which in 2008 was selected for development by the Sundance Film Institute’s screenwriting lab. —National Film Board Of Canada
Since 1997 Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski have formed the artistic partnership called Clyde Henry Productions. Under this nom de plume the pair has created award-winning films, ads, illustrations, comics and music videos. Their first professional film, Madame Tutli-Putli, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (Marcy Page, producer), has received international acclaim – over 50 awards to date, among them the Best Short Film and Rail d’or prizes at the Cannes International Film Festival and a 2007 Academy Award® Nomination.
Lavis and Szczerbowski are currently working with the NFB and Silo Corporation on a feature film project entitled The White Circus, which in 2008 was selected for development by the Sundance Film Institute’s screenwriting lab. —National Film Board Of Canada
One of the most amazing technique of stop-motion I've ever seen with life-like movements and immaculately detailed sets. It also nicely captures Madame's expressive with that slightly bulging eyes of hers. It was pretty amazing that this entire thing got through without any dialogue yet capable of pulling the viewers into its hauntingly unsettling universe.
