Artist Sandow Birk, who worked with writer Marcus Sanders to newly illustrate and entirely rewrite The Divine Comedy to create a whole new trilogy inspired by Dante's original work, is working on a movie version his own Dante's Inferno--starring puppets. The LA Weekly reveals it all in "Sandow's Inferno."
This stuff exquisite mixtures of the grandly fabled and the South Bay prosaic (Dante lives in Torrance), hand-painted two-dimensional puppets moving by hand and wire through a hand-painted hell via traditional filmic and theatrical techniques is intoxicating. And its live action, technically everything that moves, moves by hand.
Right now, were taking in a bit of puppet-fucking in the Second Circle of hell. This is Paolo and Francesca, Meredith explains. Theyre traditional characters from the Inferno. Shes been sleeping with her husbands brother, and her husband catches them.
And stabs them, repeatedly, drenching a cardboard dagger and his cardboard face in what appears to be live-action animal blood.
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June 2005
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