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What inspired you to make this piece?
I fell in love with the story by Etgar Keret. It is bittersweet, subtle, and could be adapted as an animation short for my senior project at NYU.
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Tell us a little about the process involved in making this work.
The first step was to write a script from the story and then visualize it with story boards. The hardest part in this stage was to translate the characters' written thought into action. The next step was to design and build the puppets. Once the puppets were ready, my set designer -- Yael Ben-Dor -- could build their apartment to size. Then I recorded the voices (Andrew Miller and Tanya Krohn) and read the soundtrack frame by frame. The breakdown of the dialogue serves as a guide to the animation process itself. Animation took three intensive weeks in a small dark room. All that was left is a little editing, adding Chris Bowen's lovely music and some sound mixing, and that was it.
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Do you have any interesting and/or amusing behind-the-scenes stories about the making of this particular work?
Making animation is a relatively painful task. The most exciting moment was when I survived inhaling a pin I was holding in my mouth. (We use pins to rotate the puppet's eyes in their sockets). Then, of course, there's the moment when the film comes back from the lab, and your work is moving and talking -- and nothing feels quite like it.
Is there a relationship between your work as a video/filmmaker and life in the New York metropolitan area?
CRAZY GLUE is a universal story. It was written in Israel. Setting it in New York helped to establish the distance between the husband in his Manhattan office and the wife who stays at home watching daytime TV.
How has the burgeoning independent movement affected your life and work as a video/filmmaker?
As someone who never produced anything independently out of school, I look at the independent movement as a source of inspiration and encouragement for my professional future.
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