Christiane Cegavshe is a stop motion animator in Los Angeles where she works and lives off a healthy diet of elaborate cakes and fancy tea parties. Christiane first got into animation when she was only in the fifth grade but ended up going to art school to study painting. While she was a painting major at the San Francisco Art Institute she was introduced to Jan Svankmajers animated movie, Alice, which helped to set her down a path to stop motion animation. Soon after seeing the work of her friends in the animation department she decided to take a stop motion animation class, where she created her first short film in 1992, Blood and Sunflowers. She continued creating animations since then and her work has appeared in movies and TV shows such as “X-Chromosome” and the movie The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things.
She is best known for her feature film Blood Tea and Red String, which came out in October of 2006. What was planned to be a 12 minute long movie ended up becoming 71 minutes long and taking nearly 13 years to produce. The movie was filmed in several different locations all along the west coast and in two different studio spaces. Christiane wrote and directed this film as well as created the characters, the settings and the costumes. Christiane immerses the viewer into a romantic fever dream world where wordless creatures blindly follow love and greed through life threatening obstacles. This story is a dark and epic fairy tale that seems to have been around since the days when folklore was at the tip of everyone’s tongues. Christiane’s nostalgic longing for this fictional world and her painterly compositions fit more naturally in the contemporary art world then that of the film industry.
Blood Tea and Red String is the first of a trilogy and Christiane is now working on the sequel Seed in the Sand expected to be released in 2012.
Blood Tea and Red String Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR2zL-qErX8&feature=related
Christiane's Home-page
http://www.christianecegavske.com/
NY Times Movie Review
http://movies.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/movies/04bloo.html
Myspace Profile
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=4276110&Mytoken=20041018112318
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