The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will open on December 11 an exhibition dedicated to the creative process behind Pinocchio, the first stop motion animated film by Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, which opens that month.
The exhibition, called ‘Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio’, will reveal to the public the “craft and process” behind this new animated film that will premiere worldwide on Netflix next December, which will be screened at the MoMA for a week and will be accompanied by a complete retrospective of the award-winning director, indicates a statement.
The exhibition will begin with classic and contemporary editions from around the world of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), including the 2002 edition illustrated by Gris Grimly that inspired filmmakers, to guide the public to the original story of this character .
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It will include five complete sets and four large set pieces along with puppets and marionettes, models, sculptural casts, drawings, development materials, motion test videos and props from the film.
Another gallery will have immersive videos exploring themes that frequently appear in movies from del toroas well as a wide selection of posters and a soundscape specially created for this venue.
The film was produced between the United States and Mexico.
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The exhibition will also show how teams of professionals in the US and Mexico collaborated to create this film. The film, directed by del toro and the American Mark Gustafson, is a musical animated with the stop motion technique and set in Mussolini’s Italy based on the classic story by Carlo Collodi.
“It was more complicated for us to have filmed in Guadalajara, but it was worth it for me, because the love I have for animation is not a passing thing,” Del Toro said in an interview.
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The work features the voices of several movie stars, including the British David Bradley for Gep-petto and Gregory Mann for pinocchioas well as Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton.
Part of the film was shot in Portland, Oregon (USA) and at the International Animation Center (CIA), founded by Del Toro and based in Guadalajara (Mexico).
‘Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio’ is the fourth exhibition at MoMA since 2005 focused on the art of film animation.
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