Christiane Cegavske
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Christiane Cegavske is an American artist
and stop motion animator
.
She is primarily known for her animated film Blood Tea and Red String
and for having done the animated segments to the movie The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
. She has also made a short film named Blood and Sunflowers and has done animation for the TV show "X-Chromosome".
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and stop motion animator
Stop motion
Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...
.
She is primarily known for her animated film Blood Tea and Red String
Blood Tea and Red String
Blood Tea and Red String is a stop-motion-animated feature film, called by director Christiane Cegavske a "fairy tale for adults". It was released on February 2, 2006 after a production time of 13 years, having been filmed in various places in the West Coast and in two studios...
and for having done the animated segments to the movie The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is a 2004 film directed by and starring Asia Argento. It is based on JT LeRoy's novel of the same name...
. She has also made a short film named Blood and Sunflowers and has done animation for the TV show "X-Chromosome".
See also
- Jan ŠvankmajerJan ŠvankmajerJan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.- Life and career :Jan...
- Ladislas StarevichLadislas StarevichVladislav Starevich , born Władysław Starewicz , was a Russian and French stop-motion animator who used insects and other animals as his protagonists...
- Ray HarryhausenRay HarryhausenRay Harryhausen is an American film producer and special effects creator...
- Jiří BartaJirí BartaJiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director. His films, many of which used the medium of wood for animation, garnered critical acclaim and won many awards, but after the fall of the communist government in Czechoslovakia he was unable to release anything for about 15 years...
- Brothers QuayBrothers QuayStephen and Timothy Quay are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animators...