EP. 1576: Interview with Filmmaker Raph Isadora Seymour (YELLOW DRESS)

Yellow Dress, 4min., UK


Directed by Raph Isadora Seymour


What is she doing? Trying to make a garden? Trying to make something…and who or what is trying to stop her? Crude stop-motion makes startling and poetic images and tells a story of resilience and the desire for happiness for both the hero and the villain of the piece.


Get to know the filmmaker:


What motivated you to make this film?


I wrote a poem and decided to animate it. My friend and I had gone to Peckham Common to feed the crows. I liked their movements and cunning and was also interested in their sinister connotations and their innocence.


From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?


The idea came to me in 2022 and I was finished in early 2024.


How would you describe your film in two words!?


Puppet Poem.


What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?


The biggest obstacle in making the project was balancing my time. Working a job and having other creative projects, working in stops and starts and still maintaining a creative flow however I feel this alongside the stopwork animation and patchwork effects may have benefited the style of the piece.


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