Anomalisa (Paramount Pictures) introduces us to motivational speaker Michael Stone who’s on a soul-draining business trip to Cincinnati. He struggles to grasp why he feels disconnected from the world and nearly everyone in it.
The stop-motion animation feature has garnered assorted accolades, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and just recently four Film Independent Spirit Award nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson) and Best Screenplay (Kaufman).
This featurette sheds some light on the painstaking process of making Anomalisa which was three years in the making, at the rate of about two seconds of screen time turned out by each animator per day.