NEW YORK-Cyclotron has hired Alison Andoos as associate digital composite editor. Her duties will include digital compositing on the Quantel Henry as well as supporting company artists and editors in the 2-D digital composite suites and on CGI and desktop video workstations.
Prior to joining the New York-based facility, Andoos spent nearly two years as a Henry effects artist at Moving Images Post Production, New York, where she worked on commercials for the Las Vegas Commission and Kmart and on promos for Showtime and Solovision. Andoos also completed a Cannes Award Reel for DDB Needham New York as well as R. Kelly’s music video "Home Alone."
Cyclotron, part of the New York Media Group family of companies, serves the design, advertising, broadcast and multimedia industries, offering high-concept design, live-action direction, animation and visual effects services.
Jennifer Kent On Why Her Feature Directing Debut, “The Babadook,” Continues To Haunt Us
"The Babadook," when it was released 10 years ago, didn't seem to portend a cultural sensation.
It was the first film by a little-known Australian filmmaker, Jennifer Kent. It had that strange name. On opening weekend, it played in two theaters.
But with time, the long shadows of "The Babadook" continued to envelop moviegoers. Its rerelease this weekend in theaters, a decade later, is less of a reminder of a sleeper 2014 indie hit than it is a chance to revisit a horror milestone that continues to cast a dark spell.
Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Kent's directorial debut may be one of them. It was at the nexus of that much-debated term "elevated horror." But regardless of that label, it helped kicked off a wave of challenging, filmmaker-driven genre movies like "It Follows," "Get Out" and "Hereditary."
Kent, 55, has watched all of this — and those many "Babadook" memes — unfold over the years with a mix of elation and confusion. Her film was inspired in part by the death of her father, and its horror elements likewise arise out of the suppression of emotions. A single mother (Essie Davis) is struggling with raising her young son (Noah Wiseman) years after the tragic death of her husband. A figure from a pop-up children's book begins to appear. As things grow more intense, his name is drawn out in three chilling syllables — "Bah-Bah-Doooook" — an incantation of unprocessed grief.
Kent recently spoke from her native Australia to reflect on the origins and continuing life of "The Babadook."
Q: Given that you didn't set out to in any way "change" horror, how have you regarded the unique afterlife of "The... Read More