For the magazine's twentieth anniversary this year, a series of screenings has been planned on the double bill principle, with the main focus on a selection of rarely-seen films. Other movies in the program are also important milestones in the development of the critics' dialogue within one of Quebec's most dynamic film magazines.
In 1987, legendary visual effects and stop-motion craftsman Phil Tippett embarked upon an ambitious personal project, fabricating and animating a darkly surreal world in which the creatures and nightmares of his imagination could roam free. Phil produced dozens of environments and hundreds of puppets for the project, filling notebook after notebook with thousands of detailed sketches and storyboards. Mad God is a fully practical stop-motion film set in a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists, and war pigs.
Phil Tippett
Phil Tippett is an American director, visual effects supervisor, and producer. Specializing in stop-motion animation, he is best known for his work on science fiction films such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, RoboCop, and Starship Troopers. He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his contributions to Return of the Jedi (1983) and Jurassic Park (1993). Over his career, he has assisted ILM and DreamWorks, and formed his own company, Tippett Studio, in 1984. In 2021, he released his long-gestating stop-motion film Mad God after 30 years of work. The film was funded through Kickstarter and distributed by Shudder.
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