Tim Burton: The Exhibition > Audio Tour
By ACMI
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Podcast Description
Explore the creative genius behind Edward Scissorhands, Batman and Alice in Wonderland. The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australia, hosts a unique exhibition direct from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | VideoTim Burton TVC | Television commercial for Tim Burton: The Exhibition. Concept: Tim Burton. Animation: Mackinnon & Saunders (UK). Soundtrack: Danny Elfman. Additional Motion Graphics: Benjamin Ducroz (ACMI). | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoCredits | Tim Burton: The Exhibition. 24 June - 10 October 2010. Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Video13: Edward Scissorhands | The idea for the film Edward Scissorhands came from a drawing that Burton had done years earlier as part of an exploration of isolation and disconnection. The image stayed with him and became the basis for this very personal film. A number of Burton’s sketches of Edward Scissorhands are on display here, with each version conveying the loneliness and tragedy that this character must bear. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Video12: Corpse Bride | Corpse Bride is based on a nineteenth century European folktale. The story was introduced to Tim Burton by fellow animator Joe Ranft who recognised the macabre story as something that Burton might find appealing. From the outset, Burton wanted to animate this story using stop motion, a medium that he considers to be particularly effective in communicating emotion. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Video11: Alice in Wonderland | These maquettes were used during the production of Tim Burton’s most recent film, Alice in Wonderland. The White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat and March Hare were entirely computer animated, and these maquettes gave the actors participating in the live action sequences a physical impression of the digital characters to be incorporated at a later stage of the production process. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Video10: Oyster Boy | In 1997, Tim Burton published a collection of short stories called The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories. Written in verse and illustrated with Burton’s own drawings, the stories depict a range of sad, disfigured and unwanted children. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Video9: Stitching | In Tim Burton’s films and artworks, the idea of stitching or being stitched together is a recurring motif and evokes feelings of fragmentation, dismemberment and decapitation. In films such as Frankenweenie, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks! Corpse Bride and, of course, The Nightmare Before Christmas, the characters are often makeshift, cobbled together constructions that represent feelings of psychological fragmentation, of being pieced together and coming apart at the seams. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Video8: Jack Skellington | Tim Burton first sketched out the story of The Nightmare Before Christmas in a poem and began developing it as a stop motion animation while still working for Disney. Although the film did not get made for another decade, Burton describes the satisfaction of working on this quirky personal project as a counter to his work as an animator for the classic Disney film The Fox and the Hound. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Video7: Clowns | Burton’s fascination with the carnival and the grotesque come to the fore in his depiction of clowns. Unlike Burton’s soulful and heartfelt creatures and monsters, his clowns are often predatory and menacing. In his drawings, the clown’s painted face becomes a mask of exaggerated joviality that hints at something much more sinister. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Video6: The Black Cauldron | During his apprenticeship at Disney in the early 1980s, Burton worked as an artist on a variety of different projects. He worked as a concept artist on the 1985 animated feature The Black Cauldron, directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich. The film is a medieval fantasy involving a magical cauldron with the power to create armies of undead warriors. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Video5: Hansel and Gretel | When he was still employed at Disney, Burton directed a made-for-TV version of Hansel and Gretel. This short film was one of a series of fairy tales produced for the newly launched Disney Channel and was only screened once late at night on Halloween. Fairy tales have a particular appeal for Burton, particularly ones like Hansel and Gretel that deal with such dark themes. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Video4: Creatures | Creatures are an ongoing preoccupation in Burton’s work. He confesses to feeling ‘much more connected to creatures than people’ and associates them with a particular purity of response. In his art and films, they often represent external manifestations of intense emotions or feelings. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Video3: Couples | Much is made, quite rightly, of Tim Burton’s ability to create distinctive imaginative universes. However these worlds are also defined by the characters who inhabit them and the preoccupations that inform their development. Burton’s fascination with characters and human nature is worked through in his character studies of men, women, girls, boys and, in this series, couples. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | Video2: Mothera | For Tim Burton, as for many people, drawing is a way to express emotions and feelings that can be hard to articulate. In Mothera, a cartoon drawing from the 1980s, Burton parodies both suburban life and the drudgery of domesticity. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | Video1: Horror and Humour | Tim Burton grew up in suburban Burbank in Los Angeles. He always felt at odds with the ordinariness of the world of his youth, and was conscious of the weirdness that lay just beneath the surface of everyday life. | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoIntroduction | Welcome to Tim Burton: The Exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). | 16 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 16 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Thanks Acmi.
The podcasts were annoying whilst in the exhibition, but are a brilliant way to revisit the exhibition AFTERWARDS. I'm writing an exhibition review for my art course. Thanks Acmi!
Thank you.
Thank you very much for allowing us to download this for free. I visited the exhibition, and it was one of the best things I've ever been to. So being able to relive the event is wonderful, and of course I love being being able to get to know more about Tim Burton.
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Tim Burton is the best director ever!!
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