00:02In Italia c'è una frase che è meglio vivere una giornata da una giornata da una giornata da una
00:09giornata da una giornata da una giornata da una giornata da una giornata da una giornata da una giornata.
00:09Do you agree with this Italian saying or not?
00:13Do you know, I think Sean would agree with that because he doesn't really act like a sheep.
00:17He acts like a naughty boy who's about 10.
00:20He loves adventure so he's more like a lion.
00:25This is an homage to science fiction movies.
00:31I want to know in Europe why many times in science fiction movies aliens are the enemy, the bad guys.
00:40Instead in your movie we won't spoil but there's a dialogue let's say.
00:46So how important movies for you?
00:48Oh very important, we love sci-fi films and so we totally agree that sometimes the aliens are the villains
00:54and other times they're the heroes.
00:56And so we play on that idea.
00:58So our main villain, she runs an organisation that hunts aliens and so she thinks that they must all be
01:04bad.
01:05But then Sean when he meets her he realises Lila's really good and so through the course of her and
01:09Sean's journey
01:09he realises that some aliens are really nice and friendly.
01:13There are a lot of references to many movies. I want to know how is your relationship with science fiction
01:22and what are your favourite movies?
01:25Well we both grew up in a similar era in the 80s and we love watching the films of Steven
01:30Spielberg.
01:30But we've tried to capture all sorts of influence so one of my favourite films when I was growing up
01:37was Back to the Future.
01:38And there's very subtle hints in there but also obviously Close Encounters, 2001, Stan Kubrick.
01:46Who else?
01:48I was too young to watch it but there's references to RoboCop in there as well.
01:53But yeah like well said there's also references to books so HG Wells and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
01:58There's little subtle references studded around.
02:01Do you think that if we will ever meet extraterrestrial form of lives we will have more chances of prove
02:11our intelligence by sending a human being or a ship?
02:16It depends which sheep we send. If we're going to send Sean the sheep then I think we'll be alright.
02:22He seems pretty clever most of the time.
02:25We'll definitely have more fun with Sean the sheep.
02:28Your movies are almost like mute movies. So how difficult is it to be funny without choosing words?
02:40Well we're huge fans of silent comedy so we study Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and Jacques Tatti.
02:47And so to see how jokes are set up and paid off without reaching any dialogue.
02:52And it's all about a lot of times the thinking faces characters have to happen so you understand that they
02:57understand what happened which is where the joke comes from.
03:01Yeah we spend a long time with the animation team actually rehearsing the shots with them so we act out
03:08in front of the camera and try and find the best timing for those jokes.
03:12Stop motion is more and more unpopular let's say that I love stop motion movies but they're less and less
03:22so please say something to make stop motion live again alive again.
03:29Come and see Farmageddon because it's fantastic. It's a huge, it is a sci-fi comedy epic. So it is
03:37stop motion but we embellish it with CGI because we are not afraid of embracing new technologies but at its
03:43core it's just like three clay characters having fun.
03:47Ok, thank you so much.
03:49Thank you.
03:49Thank you.
03:50Farmageddon, the film.
03:54What?
03:57Dal 26 settembre al cinema.
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