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Caterpillarplasty

Fusing elements of Kafka and Kubrick, Caterpillarplasty is a prescient, grotesque sci-fi satire that lifts plastic surgery to another level.
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A prescient, grotesque sci-fi satire that lifts plastic surgery to another level. Set in a state-of-the-art clinic, in a world where advanced technologies have given rise to new standards of beauty and prestige, Caterpillarplasty offers its sardonic take on a social obsession with beauty that’s spiralled out of control.

 This work contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
Social Issues Health and Medicine Psychology and Psychiatry Animals All subjects
Animation All channels
  • writer
    David Barlow-Krelina
  • director
    David Barlow-Krelina
  • design
    David Barlow-Krelina
  • animation
    David Barlow-Krelina
    Patricia Granato
    Patrick Rouleau
    Alexandre Francoeur Barbeau
    Laurence Grégoire
    Tulia Dicaire-Acosta
  • modeling
    Patricia Granato
    Patrick Rouleau
    Laurence Grégoire
    Alexandre Francoeur Barbeau
    Tulia Dicaire-Acosta
  • modeling assistant
    Han Han Li
    Oleksandr Alakseiev
    Patrick-Hubert Roy
  • rigging
    Dana Darie
  • art direction consultant
    Jessy Veilleux
    Corinne Merrell
  • cinematography
    Luka Sanader
    Stephanie Weber Biron
  • lighting
    François Beaudry
  • rendering
    François Beaudry
  • compositing
    Sébastien Proulx
  • music
    Vid Cousins
  • sound design
    Greg Debicki
    Vid Cousins
  • musician
    Greg Debicki
    Adam Kinner
    Sarah Pagé
  • singer
    Akua Carson
  • foley recording
    Geoffrey Mitchell
  • music recording
    Geoffrey Mitchell
  • recording assistant
    Padraig Buttner-Schnirer
  • foley
    Karla Baumgardner
  • re-recording
    Jean Paul Vialard
  • off-line editing
    Oana Suteu Khintirian
  • online editing
    Denis Pilon
  • technical direction
    Éloi Champagne
  • technical co-ordination
    Randall Finnerty
    Candice Desormeaux
    Luc Binette
  • titles
    Mélanie Bouchard
  • credits
    Mélanie Bouchard
  • administration
    Victoire-Émilie Bessette
    Rosalina Di Sario
    Dominique Forget
    Stéphanie Lalonde
  • marketing
    Judith Lessard-Bérubé
  • producer
    Jelena Popovic
  • executive producer
    Michael Fukushima
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