Madame Tutli Putli VS. Colin Geddes

0 Comments POSTED: September 4, 2007 23:48 | By: Jay Dart

Midnight Madness and International programmer extraordinaire, Colin Geddes, shares his reunion with the directors of Madame Tutli Putli, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, during the 2007 Cannes Film Festival:

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"One of the personal highlights of my experience this year in Cannes was being able to hang out and celebrate with my friends Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. I first met them back when I worked at Suspect Video here in Toronto and erased many late charges as we talked about Eastern European animators as I toiled in the shop. At the time they were doing a live action comic strip for Vice magazie done with puppets and based around the adventures of a cosmonaut. They held a great party one Halloween in their studio and anytime I visited, I got a glimpse behind the scenes of their amazingly creative little puppet videos that they were doing as part of music videos or station identifications for Space or MusiquePlus. They moved to Motreal to work further on their little mini-opus MADAME TUTLI PUTLI, but we kept in touch. A month before Cannes they called me to share the news that they had been accepted into the Critics Week selection of the Festival in Cannes! We were going to be be able to toast to their success on the Rivieria! The trip was a blast for them and during all the merry mayhem I was able to try out this new video camera and get an interview from them about their experiences that week. And the happy ending for MADAME TUTLI PUTLI is two-fold ? they won and award for Best Short at Critics Week and have been selected as part of the Short Cuts Canada programme for TIFF 07! What other success lies ahead for the wide eyed puppet?"