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Spike Jonze: To Die By Your Side

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“To Die By Your Side” (Mourir Auprès de Toi) is a tragicomic stop-motion animated short film co-created by the celebrated filmmaker Spike Jonze and designer Olympia Le-Tan. After spending five years adapting Maurice Sendak’s “Where The Wild Things Are,” Jonze’s more recent short films include last year’s robot love story, “I’m Here,” and this year’s Arcade Fire collaboration, “Scenes From the Suburbs.” “To Die By Your Side” is his latest short film, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week.

A tale to pierce the heart, the star-crossed love story is set on the shelves of Paris’s storied Shakespeare and Co. bookstore. When night falls, an old Parisian bookseller closes the small shop, and a klutzy skeleton springs off the cover of “Macbeth” and falls for Mina, the flame-haired damsel from “Dracula.” Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six-month period of time, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt that Le-Tan had cut by hand.

“To Die By Your Side” is a delightfully whimsical, humorous and poignant animated felt short film: Be sure to watch it to the end!

This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the wonderful animated short film.

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