The Bug Trainer explores Starewitch’s creative ideas and concepts of his work, along with opinions from film critics and other animation directors to help us understand why he is considered one of the greatest creators of the animation world.
Direction
Loving, respectful portrait without hagiography.
Production
Rare archival footage of Starewicz's twisted fairy tales.
Director
Linas Augutis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Starewicz started using dead bugs because live ones kept dying under hot studio lights. Problem became aesthetic.
His 1912 'The Cameraman's Revenge' remains one of the earliest examples of sophisticated character animation — using beetle carcasses.
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