A Book Opens into a Paper City
A silent branded fantasy film turns a reader's book into a tactile city, then folds the spectacle back into pages and a maker's hand.
By @KODANSHA for KodanshaRuns 01:45
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Why it works
The ordinary room holds for 50 frames before the first cut, so the light emerging in shots 3–6 has a credible cause. Shot 6's hidden cut at frame 287 carries the room into a paper city, and the paper vortex around shots 41–50 returns the spectacle to physical making before the 117-frame final card.
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Tagged live actionstop motionpapercraftbranded filmminiature citynarrativecinematicsilent storytelling
