Helped my friend Ben out with some stop motion bits for his documentary about the Vissarion Christ, some nutty bloke in Siberia who thinks God is his Dad (I don’t think he is, but you never know, he does have a beard though so perhaps).
We weren’t going for photo realism (just as well), more of a Michel Gondry thing. We pinned up a bluescreen, layed out a load of plastic sheet and then covered Ben’s floor with loads of potting soil and clods of dirty old ground and grass, complete with several thousand hitch-hiking ants. Rocks borrowed from the garden in front of Ben’s flats covered in flour created a mountain range/pile of rocks covered in flour.
Little plastic sheep (as seen above alongside an albino cow and a dead horse), fencing and a couple of hours of inching along a toy train and we’d finished and had the fun task of sweeping up all the soil and ants.
If you’d like to see Ben’s documentary go to:
www.insearchofthevissarion.co.uk