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[canmom]

Animation Night 72: Yamasong/Sam Koji Hale

The Blue Blazes detour is over. We're back to our home ground: weird obscure animated films.

Recently I found out about a site called Kanopy, which lets you use a local library card to access a pretty neat library of films. I don't know if it's per-library or universal, but in any case, the Kanopy I have access to is mostly old films and documentaries - but it does have a pretty fascinating animation section including a bunch of films that are completely new to me.

One of these films is Yamasong: March of the Hollows.

This is a puppet film from 2016. The premise as I understand it is a fantasy world full of turtle people and robots, that's currently destablised by a conflict between the mechanical Hollows and beasts called the Tricksters, threatening all the other strange species that inhabit the planet. It falls to a cyborg called Nani and a turtle called Shojun to try and resolve the conflict. I don't know how this film never crossed my radar because the designs are fantastic - of course a puppet film brings to mind Dark Crystal, but equally it's got that Moebius sorta flavour, have a taste...

In an interview, director Sam Koji Hale describes how he took inspiration from Tezuka's Pheonix and ukiyo-e artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi alongside the usual suspects like Kon and Miyazaki, trying to bring together images from multiple cultures - omnipresent kami and Matryoshka dolls.

The concept began as a short film that appeared at a handful of film festivals, inspired by the music of Shoji Kameda and his On Ensemble. Although this was successful at festivals, not a lot of studios were keen to back a feature-length puppet movie. The break came when one Sultan Saeed Al Darmarki, the owner of puppet studio Dark Dunes Production from the UAE, met up with Hale and offered to back the film as its producer.

Although certain sources like Wikipedia call it stop motion, I believe that may be incorrect - I think this is genuinely a puppet film, with puppeteers manipulating the figures in real time, draped in green to allow digital compositing...

And besides Hale, the film brings together a bunch of other notable American puppeteers, notably Heather Henson (daughter of Jim Henson) and Toby Froud (behind the recent Dark Crystal reboot, whose parents worked on the original). Puppet animation is something I'd like to cover more on here, especially Strings (2004) which still sits in my memory from many many years ago.

More recently, Hale worked on a Chinese film called 12 Zodiac, in which a group of animals must unite to remind the Jade Emperor that they exist. It sounds fascinating, but unfortunately I have not been able to find any more information than that IMDB page. If anyone knows a way to see this movie, let me know!!

So, if that sounds interesting, I hope you'll join me in checking this one out. I'm really curious to see what I missed! Animation Night will be going live momentarily, and the film will begin in about 20 minutes (22:40 UK time) at our usual twitch.tv/canmom - hope to see you there!

[lukeevansgirl22]

Yamasong: March of the Hollows is a cool movie!

Hey guys! I’m here to do a review for the movie “Yamasong: March of the Hollows!” I loved this movie because it was so cool! It’s visually very cool, imaginative and creative. The animations are very cool and looks like a cross between Claymation and puppetry. There’s a lot of action to keep the viewer engaged and the cast sounds like they had fun making the film. There’s lots of vibrant colors…

[pack4mo]

Watch Yamasong: March of the Hollows on Tubi

Watch Yamasong: March of the Hollows on Tubi: https://link.tubi.tv/Ezm061avKxb

[lajoiedefrancoise]

Yamasong: March of the Hollows (2017)

[teasertrailer]

Yamasong March of the Hollows - movie trailer: https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/yamasong-march-of-the-hollows/

featuring the voices of Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Fillion, Abigail Breslin, George Takei, Ed Asner, Peter Weller, and Freida Pinto

#Yamasong #YamasongMovie #YamasongMarchOfTheHollows #YamasongMarchOfTheHollowsMovie

[she-is-wearing]

Cinq à Sept

[ang3l0fdeath]

Yamasong: March of the Hollows

[ravenya003]

Stuff I Read/Watched in April...

The Restless Girls by Jessie Burton and Angela Barrett

Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly

See You Later by Christopher Pike

Frankly My Dear by Molly Haskell

The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

Strings (2004)

Team America: World Police (2004)

Justice League vs Teen Titans (2016)

DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High (2016)

DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year (2016)

A Dark Song (2016)

Yamasong: March of the Hollows (2017)

DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games (2017)

DC Super Hero Girls: Legend of Atlantis (2018)

Feud (2017)

Hollywood (2020)

Dickinson: Season 2 (2021)

More details on blog...

[mir-kino-online]

Ямасонг: Марш Пустых (2017)

Автоматизированное путешествие девушки и воина-черепахи с группой преступников в невероятном квесте. Их единственная надежда - найти легендарную реликвию, чтобы победить зловещую механизированную армию и спасти существ их мира.

https://mir-kino.online/multfilm/33231-yamasong-march-of-the-hollows-2017.html

[cartoonnnetworkk]

Yamasong: March of the Hollows Movie http://bit.ly/2PLm1lO

[brwc]

Yamasong: March Of The Hollows – Review

[world-of-puppets]

“Why puppets? Because puppetry is the power of art made manifest.”

-Ben Page

Happy world puppetry day!

[love-sara-de]

مشاهدة فيلم Yamasong: March of the Hollows 2017 مترجم

مشاهدة فيلم Yamasong: March of the Hollows 2017 مترجم فى اطار من المغامرات والفنتازيا والمغامرات حول فتاة مؤتمتة ورحلة محارب سلحفاة مع عصابة من الخارجين عن القانون في مسعى لا يصدق. أملهم الوحيد هو إيجاد

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[andyfliz]

Yamasong: March of the Hollows

Yamasong: March of the Hollows

An automated girl and tortoise warrior journey with a band of outlaws on an incredible quest. Their one hope is to find a legendary relic to defeat a sinister mechanized army and save the creatures of their world.

[lajoiedefrancoise]

Yamasong: March of the Hollows (2017)