My sister is a graphic design artist. Her last year of college, she was inspired by mannequins. As she was driving home, if she a stray mannequin laying in the trash, she would rescue it. By the time graduation rolled around she had a whole extended family of them. It was quite bizarre. If you would open any door in her condo, there would be a mannequin staring at you. I jokingly said, "We're being attacked!"
The funniest thing was that we all (my sisters and I) waited for my mother to go to sleep and when she did, we planted the scariest one, the one in this poster, in the hallway. Figuring she would get up at some point to maybe go to the bathroom or get a drink of water, she would not have any indication of what was lying ahead of her as she rounded the corner in the hall.
Well, she did get up, and let me tell you…the shrillest scream I ever heard! She assaulted that mannequin like it stole her pocketbook! Hence, I said we have to do something with all these mannequins. They were just merely existing as decorations in her condo.
I snapped a few photos the last day I was in North Carolina and an idea occurred to me, a stop-motion film on people being attacked by mannequins. Short, simple and sweet. In between some dramatic cut scenes would take place to further the story-line along. I like the idea of taking something so ridiculous and having fun with it.
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