30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Italian premiere

Pure white porcelain figures come to life in the heart of a mysterious rainforest. A ballerina, born from a flower, dances on the branches of a tree and strange insects of the most bizarre shapes come to life as a spider weaves its trap. They are fragile forms, part of a time that flows far away, hidden from our world. Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, an Estonian director specialising in puppet animation, shot Winter In The Rainforest during two months of work in a forest in Chiapas, Mexico, the site of the encounter between stop-motion animation technique and the scenery of a stream that flows between the branches. The idea of blending a laborious and complex technique such as stop-motion animation - which requires absolute control of the staging - into a wild and unpredictable natural environment, was developed during an artistic residency in the village of San Roque de Cumbaza, nestled in the forests of the Peruvian Amazon.

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  Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

  Anu-Laura Tuttelberg lives and works in Tallinn, in Estonia. A freelance director, she directs and  conceives films made using stop-motion technique. She is also a set designer at various animation studios and a teacher of puppet animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts.