Wunderkammer

Madelaine’s cabinet of curiosities contained a collection of wonders to both delight and horrify. One day, a mysterious item in her cabinet captures her attention. A darkly-tinged, animated fantasy that explores the erotic-grotesque.

  • Jennifer Linton
    Director
    Toronto Alice, La Petite Mort
  • Papercut Pictures
    Producer
  • Sorena Linton
    Producer
  • Zev Farber
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 36 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 1, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Jennifer Linton

Jennifer Linton is an independent animator and interdisciplinary visual artist working with animation, drawing, installation and printmaking. Her animated films explore the traditional medium of paper cutout animation, combining a hand-drawn style with the texture and materiality of stop-motion. Thematically, her films often blend beautiful and erotic imagery with the grotesque and uncanny elements. She teaches art and design courses at post-secondary institutions such as OCAD University (Toronto) and Sheridan College (Oakville). Linton has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.

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Director Statement

Wunderkammer is a 2D stop-motion animated film shot under camera using unarmatured, replacement paper cutouts. This traditional animation medium involves hundreds of individual cutouts that are drawn on paper with a peg-bar, scanned, printed, hand-coloured and cut out. These are swapped in frame-to-frame to create smooth, complex movements not possible with articulated paper puppets. The resulting film has all the hand-drawn charm and personality of traditional cel animation, plus the lovely textures and materiality of stop-motion.