I’m a huge fan of Junk Head, the stop-motion sci-fi anime directed by self-taught animator Takahide Hori. I’ve been eagerly anticipating the film’s follow-up, Junk World, ever since it was first ...

Filmmaking is a collaborative process: even the most fanatical auteur directors have to enlist the help of others to bring their visions to the screen. But in the case of stop-motion animation, anyone ...

For the majority of my posts, I like to put the role/s of a crewmember before their name. For example, if I were to write about Alien: Covenant, I’ll say “From director Ridley Scott…” I bring this up ...

Creator Takahide Hori created the obsessive stop-motion movie ' JUNK HEAD ' by shooting one frame at a time for almost one person over seven years. The work in which unique sculptures and characters ...

After finding acclaim with stop-motion animated short Junk Head 1 in 2014, writer/director/animator Takahide Hori decided to expand its science fiction-infused world to feature length. The result is a ...

"What do you mean there are living creatures here?" What in the?! A second trailer has been unveiled for an indie stop-motion animation movie called Junk World, the next film in a trilogy set around ...

Existential quandaries meet expressionist monsters in Takahide Hori’s dystopian world Envisioning a dystopian future where humans inch closer to immortality while losing the ability to procreate, ...

“Junk Head,” a grotesque but humorous feature film that uses dolls for most of the characters, was literally made from scratch. Its director, Takahide Hori, had neither knowledge nor experience in ...