Squeaking House is a Short Experimental Stop-motion Animation; an optical experiment on the interactions between different lighting conditions, sound effects and the subconscious.

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The leading role is the House. The ambience created by the lighting and the sounds provides the House its unique character, making it more alive than its residents. Squeaking House explores the memories and ghosts that haunt a place or a mind. The House incarnates the recollections and the past of its residents, former or present, and this embodiment is visualized through its melting walls.

 

The short stop-motion is influenced by Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s, “Angel’s Game”, while the House itself is a long-abandoned mansion in the heart of Barcelona in the Mid-1920s, inspired by the Art Nouveau Movement that flourished in the turn of the 20th century. The nature inspired characteristics of the movement, as well as its symbolic use of ancient myths and the woman, provided the ideal ground to visualize the mysterious and mystical atmosphere of the book.

 

The puppets used (the horse and the doll) preexisted, whereas the house is an 1:25 scale model built by me out of foam board, balsa wood, brass wire and clay.