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Tales from the Crib: "Natural Birth Control"
Description
Adults on the verge of procreating... She's not sure why, but she feels a powerful gene current rushing her toward an uncertain destiny... Around him, the air is thick with baby propaganda... Through the rosy haze they wonder... Are kids really just adorable affection factories? Or is there an untold sinister side to child rearing, a dark hell-bound side street, a one-way alley that no one dared reveal when you started careening down that hormone-splattered highway toward the frontiers of exhaustion? Tales from the Crib, based on the book by Henrik Drescher, is a series of provocative short segments (vignettes) in stop motion and CGI, exploring the curious and timeless rites of parenthood.
The human baby is the most natural form of birth control.
2004, 01 min 21 s
- Directed by
- Caroline R. Maria
- Produced by
- Marcy Page
- Ria Samsonenko
- Production Agency
- Cinemaria
- National Film Board of Canada
Also available in French
Credits
- Writer
- Caroline R. Maria
- Joan Scott
- Design
- Valentin
- Stop motion animation
- Valentin
- Development
- Caroline R. Maria
- Director
- Caroline R. Maria
- Narrator
- Jamie Watson
- Animation
- Christopher Goodkey
- Franck Maillet
- Malcolm Sutherland
- Compositing
- Martin Ciastko
- Stop motion animation assistant
- Jean-Martin Casseus
- Editing
- Martin Ciastko
- Denis Pilon
- Production assistant
- Nick Fox-Gieg
- Jean-Sébastien Jasenovic
- Ron Kriz
- Technical supervision
- Susan Gourley
- Pierre Plouffe
- Production coordinator
- Benoit Delpech
- Richard Lesage
- Original music score
- Shayne Gryn
- Opening theme
- Shayne Gryn
- Audio recording
- Sylvain Jacob
- Marc-André Nadeau
- Sound design
- Sylvain Jacob
- Marc-André Nadeau
- Administration
- Richard C. Fortin
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Elaine Largie
- Accounting
- Richard C. Fortin
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Elaine Largie
- Creative consultant
- Henrik Drescher
- Producer
- Marcy Page
- Ria Samsonenko
- Executive producer
- Caroline R. Maria
- David Verrall
Awards
- Banff Rockie Award - Category: Animation Programs
Television Festival
June 12 to 15 2005, Banff - Canada