STOPMOTION – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

February 28, 2024February 28, 2024 MaryAnn Johanson Robert Morgan, Stopmotion

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There is an inherent mystery behind all creative acts: Where does it come from? Sometimes this is a mystery even to creative people who may be so inundated by the ideas flooding their brain that they barely know where to begin. *raises hand* Sometimes that mystery comes with an inherent dread: if the art that springs forth is strange or disturbing, what does that say about the artist?

Stopmotion, the feature debut from British animator Robert Morgan, gets at the enigmas and anxieties of artistic creation like no film I’ve ever seen before. This is a movie in which style is substance like no film I’ve never seen before. Perhaps more unsettling: This is a uniquely disturbing movie for anyone who grapples with, you know, their own fertile yet unknowable mind. (Continue reading…)

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MaryAnn Johanson

MaryAnn Johanson is a freelance writer on film, TV, DVD, and pop culture from New York City and now based in London. She is the webmaster and sole critic at FlickFilosopher.com, which debuted in 1997 and is now one of the most popular, most respected, and longest-running movie-related sites on the Internet. Her film reviews also appear in a variety of alternative-weekly newspapers across the U.S. Johanson is one of only a few film critics who is a member of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (the Webby organization), an invitation-only, 500-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities. She is also a member of the Online Film Critics Society. She has appeared as a cultural commentator on BBC Radio, LBC-London, and on local radio programs across North America, and she served as a judge at the first Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Film Festival at the 2003 I-Con, the largest SF convention on the East Coast. She is the author of The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride, and is an award-winning screenwriter. Read Johanson's recent articles below. For her AWFJ.org archive, type "MaryAnn Johanson" in the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).