Colours, people, everyday life... everything mentioned on this page.
Awards
Film with Most Artistic Merit - Hedgehogs and Honeybeads @ The Motion Plymouth Film Festival November 2007
Festivals
The Art Bereg Russian Film Festival - August 2007 - shortlisted
Motion Plymouth Film Festival - November 2007 - shortlisted
Martha Moopette's Interests
General
Books, painting, paintings, collecting odd postcards and sticking them on my wall all dated, taking photographs, animation, film, comedy, nice people and good conversation, Van Gogh, colours, food, eating, cooking, yoga, family, Leonardo da Vinci, textiles, crafts, Hayao Miyazaki, living...erm...funny sheep, David Attenborough, loads of amazing directors...the names have vanished...recycling, cycling, poetry, sounds, Rene Magritte, birthing pool, really nice textured paper, camping...only when England's not flooding like last time we were camping, Jan Svenkmajer, meeting new people, psychology, Edward Lear, blue, Montezuma's dark chocolate with orange and geranium oil, tropical fruit juice, Jean Cocteau, music, paints, bubble bath...especially chocolate, composition, love, Eric Carle, Charlie and Lola, my girls & Mr Phizmiz, Akira Kurosawa, friends, good..odd..old dark furniture with interesting shapes and maybe a few dents, nice looking mugs, fruit, art, Escher, loads of different flavour teas...absolutely especially chocco flavour yogi tea, curry, hot baths, pumpkins and squash, pulling silly faces, plants, Marcel Duchamp, shopping, not being chased by a cow, Dr Seuss, vegetables, handbags...not poncy handbags, pottery and old dishes and cups, costume making, patterns, apes, Mr Tumble, veggie hotdogs, Mr Robertson playing William Tell Overture on his teeth, what the hell's out there, red, good names, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Laurel and Hardy and The Marx Brothers and drawing...
Music
Erm...Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, The Velvet Underground, PJ Harvey, Gamelan, John Cage, Can, Tori Amos, Leonard Cohen, Pavement, REM, Scissor Sisters, Yann Tiersen, Erik Satie, Phillip Glass, Tom Waits, Xper Xr, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Spike Jones, Michael Jackson (old stuff), Some old Foo Fighters stuff, Nirvana, Ergo Phizmiz, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Mozart, Spike Jones, The Bees, Bjork, Safety Scissors, Simon and Garfunkel...will write more when they "POP" in my head...
...but this is my very favourite at the moment. You have to check it out... Oh, please do! You'll get addicted. Brilliant Sexy Party Disco! Ha ha!
Movies
Strangers On A Train, Frida, The Snowman, Life is Beautiful, Howls Moving Castle, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Harvey, Singing in the Rain, Waking Life, Being John Malkovich, Merlin, Faust, Spirited Away, Man on the Moon, The Cat Returns, Grave of the Fireflies, Alice, The Truman Show, Vertigo...so many more but I can never remember...hmmm...
Television
Books
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - wonderful!
My Friend Walter - Michael Morpurgo
Butterfly Lion - Michael Morpurgo
Goodnight moon - Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
About me:
Martha Moopette's work in video has been disseminated at exhibitions and film-festivals in London, Tokyo, Brussels, St Petersburg, Cherbourg-Octeville, and the Isle of Wight. She was shortlisted for top prizes at Art-Bereg Film Festival and Plymouth Film Festival – winning in the category of Artistic Merit - during 2007. Outside of video, her still-visual work has also been exhibited locally on the Isle of Wight, and her photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers including The Wire (UK), Fluid (Poland), and Gonzo-Circus (Netherlands). Her latest project is a documentary on a meeting of artists and musicians from avant-garde and folk backgrounds, shot in Transylvania and supported by the European Cultural Foundation.
PLUS...A LITTLE SLIDE SHOW FOR YOU FOLKS FROM THE PROJECT OVER HERE IN TRANSYLVANIA!! More pics to come....
CHECK OUT THE NEW MOOPETTE FUNKY HAT DANCE FILM "OOBEEB" BELOW
HEDGEHOGS AND HONEYBEADS - MARTHA MOOPETTE * ROSALIND NOCTOR
Here it is. Influences. Life. Chapters. Poetry. People.
"Hedgehogs & Honeybeads" crosses choreography, design and innovative sound / image editing to produce an expressionist take on the development of a single human identity. Born screaming, a protagonist walks through a series of rooms, spaces, and circumstances: a Japanese tea ceremony; a room full of mechanical, faceless people; a cupboard full of hats; culminating in an exit into a glade of trees and possibilities. Directed by Martha Moopette and choreographed by Rosalind Noctor, the film is a Surrealist expedition into how we become who we are.
CHECK IT OUT BELOW!!!
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Let me know your thoughts!!
And below we have KLUPNUT. Moopette's first wonderland of colour. Cheek it ooot!!
And here is the first of 3 short animations created for exhibition on Ubuweb, 2003.
As the following of "Binjoum [PRT005]" release, here's the first LP vinyl release of Proot rec. with sides different enough to expose the multiple faces of Thiaz Itch's work :
A side, new special versions of 5 tracks extracted from the sunshiny "Binjoum" LP(available on Proot records [PRT005] and Bedroom Research [BR022])
B side, a bunch of 4 tracks that could be described as the "best of" those last 5 years of Thiaz Itch : Wan Toutou Megamix (from "Monkey Movies" on Bedroom Research [BR020]) ; and Goto Castricum, Doubidou Bidou, Balls Love Call, exclusive unreleased yet tracks !!!!
Hey there, Martha Moopette!! thank you again for the friendship! if you get a chance please check out my 2 new tracks if you havent already! I would love to hear whatcha think :)
Hey chicken licken, love your pic...very odd lol!!! see u in a week, bright and early...btw are there any super markets near you or just deli style shops? much love xxxx
Wow your chicken trees video is amazing! I love it sooo much! And the musics amazing too! love it love it love it! Are you staying in france untill the end of August? I wanna come over before you move! xxx
