See Stop Motion Short ‘Mourir Auprès de Toi’ Co-Directed by Spike Jonze
Posted on Thursday, October 20th, 2011 by Russ Fischer
It’s been months since we heard anything about Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), the stop-motion animated short film that Spike Jonze co-directed with Simon Cahn, based in part on the work of fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan.
The short features cut-felt characters animated as if they’ve come alive from the covers of books on a shelf; the setting is the famed Shakespeareand Company bookshop that sits on the south side of the river Seine in Paris, right by Notre Dame. The short is a gorgeous little piece of work; it is pretty and sad and completely absurd. You can see it in full after the break. (Note that it is also vaguely NSFW due to some, uh, skeleton sex.) Read More »
