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‘Savages’: How Claude Barras Went From His Oscar-Nominated ‘Zucchini’ to the Jungles of Borneo for Next Stop-Motion Epic


Oscar-nominated 'My Life as a Zucchini' director Claude Barras on with his next stop-motion adventure, the Borneo rainforest-set 'Savages'

Taking inspiration from his grandparents, who lived around nature in the Swiss Alps, Barras set his tale — for which he started sketching ideas while on the year-long tour with “Zucchini” — in Borneo, on the edge of a rainforest in process of being destroyed. There’s conflict between loggers and local tribes, between Keria and her father, who works for a palm oil plantation, with her younger cousin Selaī, and with herself and her own nomadic roots. For Barras, whose puppets would lose much of the charm without their lovingly handmade aesthetics, despite the advances in 3D animation (which he says can now make something look like it’s stop-motion), there’s a growing interest in his preferred technique.

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