Festivals - Fantasia 2021 :  a lifetime achievement award for stop-motion titan Phil Tippett

By Mulder, 21 july 2021

From the original Star Wars trilogy to the millennial Twilight saga, on top of Robocop, Jurassic park and Starship troopers, Phil Tippett’s inventive, innova-tive, iconic stop-motion creations have become universally familiar elements of our collective imagination. Fantasia is proud to honour the director and visual effects master with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 for his original vision and his contributions to the advancement of the craft.

This proud moment coincides with the long-awaited completion of Tippett’s personal mas-terwork— thirty years in the making, MAD GOD sees its North American Premiere at Fan-tasia this summer. Equal parts harrowing and hilarious, it’s a perpetual motion machine of biomechanical malevolence, a Dantean descent into the depths of Tippett’s imagination that cements him as an artist of the highest order. 

Accompanying MAD GOD is the world premiere of the documentary short Worse than the demon, an intimate and insightful profile by the subject’s daughter, Maya Tippett. Fantasia will present Tippett with his Lifetime Achievement Award by way of a virtual cere-mony, followed by a masterclass exploring the deeper roots of his art. 

The festival passport is already on sale online and individual tickets, for both virtual and theatrical screenings, will go on sale Friday, July 23rd at 1PM EDT.

The 25th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival will be presented by Videotron in collaboration with Desjardins, and will be made possible thanks to the financial assistance of the Government of Quebec, SODEC, Telefilm Canada, the City of Montreal, the Conseil des arts of Montreal and Tourisme Montréal. A final wave of Fantasia 2021 titles will be announced in late July, with ticket sales commencing shortly afterwards. Mrs. Van Houten, a woman who seems to be losing touch with reality, and her treatment un-der Dr. Caligari, who diagnoses her with a "disease of the libido." 

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(Source : press release)