This first stop-motion animated short film by award winning American sculptor John Frame involves thirty-five highly articulated characters that inhabit a world unidentifiable by place or time. LA Times art critic David Pagel writes of Three Fragments of a Lost Tale, "Frame's figures throw open the doors of a world unlike any that has ever existed, yet strangely familiar. Contemporary viewers of his art find themselves in a position similar to that of these characters: awed, even daunted, by the strange, densely detailed world before us-which is nothing like the everyday reality we have left behind."

Catalog Number: MC-1340	Type: Short	Genre: Animation
Copyright: 2011	Length: 00:20:28	Format:  DVD  Region: 0 (All)
TV System: NTSC	ISBN:	UPC/EAN: 884501669023
Label: John Frame		Rating: Not Rated

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Los Angeles Times By David Pagel Part puppeteer, preacher, philosopher and poet, Frame is a jack-of-all-trades with a singular vision

New York Times By Robert Ito Mr. Frame is part of an underground group of stop-motion artists in Southern California who labor in the shadows of the major studios. Long the center of studio-backed stop-motion animation made by artists like Ray Harryhausen and Art Clokey, the area is now home to scores of solo practitioners more interested in creating highly personal art pieces than commercial works.

Huffington Post By John Seed there is more than a hint of the occult in some of the rites, rituals and passages that have begun to appear in his films. One woman who visited the Huntington show later told Frame that she detected "...themes of seeking and seeing, burden, loss, damage, madness, wholeness, enlightenment, inhumanity, cycles, rebirth, controlled and controller - just to name a few."

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