Tephrasect

2004

Justin Curfman

24 minutes

Stop-Motion Animation

Festivals:

2004- No Budget Film Festival (Stockholm, Sweden)

2004- Nihilist Film Festival (Santa Monica, CA)

2004- Atlanta Underground Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)

2005- MOOOvie Underground Film Festival (Romania)

2006 - Emerging Artisans Festival (Arkansas)

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Awards:

2004 - Best Animated Film - Atlanta Underground Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)

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Reviews:

".... filmmaker Justin Curfman's stop-motion animation suggests the jarring soundtracks of David Lynch's earliest shorts and the work of the Brothers Quay.... Curfman's real talent is a surreal, nimble visual imagination that appears virtually limitless..."

- Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing: Atlanta

"These short films are, in my humble opinion, some of the best short, low budget films to come along in a long time. And even better, they are entirely stop-motion!"

- Randy Robinson, Bare Nerve Magazine

"...grade A weirdness over here, folks."

Frightmares The Series

"...like a montage of ideas and styles linked together with a clay - animated protagonist, who resides in the realms of the subconscious. Were it a painting it would be a collage of inkblot tests passed over with insanely detailed brush-strokes. Tephrasect is just plain gorgeous. It evokes a sense of admiration and wonder in me even though all that I’m seeing is in black and white, and takes place in a most unappealing, blandly set up miniature wasteland. As I said before, it manages to find beauty in ugliness... everyone should watch this."

Undergroundfilm.org

"... stop-motion surrealism populates this bizarre short, focusing on the mundane life of an average guy - if the averageguy lives in rotting, rusting, desolation, mired in a relationship with a woman who knits cockroach blankets... his visual elements are certainly striking... worth a look... three (out of five) stars..."

- John Oak Dalton,

Microcinemscene.com