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StopTrik's Dead Media programme connects optical sound, recovered photographs and hybrid puppet animation
Amanda Barbour's 15 October report for Zippy Frames documents the craft programme behind StopTrik's 2026 Dead Media theme. The festival ran in Maribor on 23-27 September. Its Fleeting Matters retrospective used explanatory title cards to connect each film to its technique, including engraved optical sound in Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart's Mosaic and salvaged photographic negatives in Lei Lei and Thomas Sauvin's Recycled.
The report also describes how The Truth Rejects You, Cornelius alternates puppet-animated therapy scenes with changing 2D styles for the protagonist's memories. Max Hattler's screening-and-talk session and a panel on older audiovisual technologies extended the discussion beyond finished films. These examples document how material, sound and changes of technique shape a viewing experience; the festival's previously published award results remain in the existing winners story.
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