Three masks were created for The Pendulum
Heart -a film about a mask maker with an identity crisis. It has been several years since I've worked with papier-mâché
and this was more of a challenge than I thought -two masks not coming out at all and one being eaten by Peter Bones the dog.
These are the survivors: "Fox", "Rabbit", & "Owl
...followed up by a voice performance by the lead actor of the same film,
Christine Bonansea, recorded by Stoo Odom. It was an effortless session. Not to take away from her acting abilities but
everything sounds good in French!
Also, work on the boat for Star of Tyche comes nearer to climax.
Below, Mr. Comparini adds what he calls 70's cabinet shellac. I'm deadly excited to see this thing realized...
Madame Stanly held a dinner/script
reading session to get the flow going for upcoming films. We read for Still Life a gothic style horror involving one woman with very mixed feelings about love and the Devil. Emi
read for the role, which was a departure from her joyfully dubious character in Neurotique No.4. There was a lot of “OK, I want you to get in touch with your most caustic and hateful side
– and no funny accents!” which is admittedly not as fun but I think more interesting.
We followed up with a little costume experiment: below Kristen Freeland gussies up for her roll
in Painted Wife - a film about a woman in competition with her own image...
Ms. Momo plays the Blue Fairy in Dogmatique, liberating a desperate soul who wants to live as a “real man!” Here’s
some test shots, will be incorporating bits of selective color in this one…
After several months of grant writing angst, I suddenly found
myself free to get back into it and tackle the most involved piece of prop work in the series: the boat for “Star of
Tyche”. - theater style. Mr. Comparini joined me through the process and I was happy to rediscover
that we shared the same gleeful focus - bounced ideas around while building the thing and the theme of the boat morphed into
this introspective swan, inner child, dream boat, which I think, will mirror the main character’s naïve optimism.
Much more work to do but it turned out quite well within a day of labor…
