Interview with Filmmaker Stephen Featherstone (STOPGAP IN SLOW MOTION)

STOPGAP IN SLOW MOTION played to rave reviews at the November 2018 Experimental FEEDBACK Film Festival in Toronto.

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?

Stephen Featherstone: “Stopgap in Stop Motion” was actually a commission. I have a studio in the art centre in the town that I live in and Stopgap Dance Company have their production offices in the same building. One day the producer for Stopgap, who I knew from meeting him around the art centre, approached me and asked if I could make a promotional film for the company that combined live action and animation. I knew from the moment he asked me that it had the potential to be a very creative and exciting project so I had no hesitation in saying that I could and accepting the commission. That, by the way, was the entire brief I was given so how I interpreted…