ABSTRACT
Born in Buenos Aires, the couple lives in Berlin since 1992. Alberto Couceiro studied animation in Potsdam-Babelsberg and specialized in stop motion, while Alejandra Tomei focused on directing, character design, and digital image processing and compositing. After the great success of their stop-motion TV City at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, they founded their own studio Animas Film. TV City was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the puppets were on display at the Jilin Animation Institute in Changchun, China. At the Berlin Film Festival in 2015, another short film, Automatic Fitness, was shown that won awards at film festivals round the world. The chapter presents an interview between Couceiro and Tomei regarding animation films. There are numerous animation films that Couceiro see exclusively at festivals, films that are really mind-blowing. In film history most names that come to Tomei's mind are not related to animation and stop motion.
