BONY LIL WENT TO SCHOOL
Bony Lil has completed a five week course in the Richard Pochinko tradition with the immensely talented Sue Morrison in Toronto. A smashing time was had by all. Great things are in the works. Stay tuned. and feel free to buy stuff.
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FILM
Over two years in the making
Bony Lil's CREATION and DISTRACTION , a duet of short films exploring the extreme opposite ends of the creative process, are complete. These films are a byproduct of collaboration between Zea Barker and Michael Pope (a designer/director duo who have brought you the bulk of the Dresden Dolls music videos, the Dresden Dolls: Live in Paradise DVD, the Dresden Dolls EPK, a Fluttr Effect, a Steamy Bohemians and a Ben Folds music video.)
Creation and Distraction feature Bony Lil in a mix of silent live-action and a unique style of blended hand-drawn and stop-motion animation. The first,
Distraction, is a classic story of girl meets blank sheet of paper. We watch as Bony Lil labors to surmount the barrage of obstacles as she runs the gauntlet of creative expression. In the second,
Creation, Bony Lil is found steeped in the frenzy of inspiration. As she labors to draw characters, they begin to take on a life of their own and crawl off their pages looking for adventure, trouble and love.
Once all the pain-staking animation was drawn, cut out and shot, the remaining ingredient was finding fantastic musical talent to create original scores to Bony Lil's antics.
Creation was put in the extremely capable hands of Valerie Thompson , cellist for Fluttr Effect , whereupon she produced a juicy flamanco-influenced string quartet that fits the adventures of the characters like a glove.
Distraction was rendered by an all-star cast from Blue Man Group . Hari Hassin (Music Director for Blue Man Boston) and Michael Petrucci (Drum Instructor for Blue Man Boston) steered the ship that at various times contained music directors from the Orlando show and the Rock Tour. They made some jaunty numbers taking cues from Django Reinhardt and James Brown as well as their own splendiforous brain pans. The Icing on that cake was supplied by none other than Brian Viglione , of Dresden Dolls fame, who whipped up a saucy drum solo accompaniment to a rather passionate scene about oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
The delicate choreography of getting the films to the people has begun, film festival submissions being the first step. World domination, here we come.
Watch for them in 2007, or 2008 maybe, you can watch the trailers now...
INTERNET VIDEO
Bony Lil featured on fringefriday by editor of Yahoo Video. Nice write up with it.
Also nominated for a Yahoo! Video Veddy 2006 in the "Indie Trailer" category.
* yahoo!video * youtube * crackle *
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Blood From a Turnip Puppetry Film Festival 2007:
shown as a work in progress
Voltaic Vaudeville: May 2007
Chicago Short Film Brigade: October 2007
LOOT
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THANK YOU and HAPPY HOLLA-DAISIES!
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