event Milwaukee Film Festival - Winter Edition: A Town Called Panic

Between the matted fur that coats Fantastic Mr. Foxand the various grotesqueries populating Adult Swim, "ugly animation" is experiencing something of a renaissance. That renaissance could cross over ifA Town Called Panic—a low-budget puppetoon by demented Belgian stop-motion artists Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier—adds an Oscar nomination to its 2009 Fantastic Fest Audience Award. Should the usually spectacle-minded Academy look past Panic's dime-store stars—most carrying self-explanatory names such as Horse, Cowboy, and Indian—they'll find a genuinely lovable (if a touch episodic and manic) filmgoing experience. Even for their amateurish looks, you've got to love the way these characters move—and devour foodstuffs 10 times their size.  

Between the matted fur that coats Fantastic Mr. Foxand the various grotesqueries populating Adult Swim, "ugly animation" is experiencing something of a renaissance. That renaissance could cross over ifA Town Called Panic—a low-budget puppetoon by demented Belgian stop-motion artists Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier—adds an Oscar nomination to its 2009 Fantastic Fest Audience Award. Should the usually spectacle-minded Academy look past Panic's dime-store stars—most carrying self-explanatory names such as Horse, Cowboy, and Indian—they'll find a genuinely lovable (if a touch episodic and manic) filmgoing experience. Even for their amateurish looks, you've got to love the way these characters move—and devour foodstuffs 10 times their size.  

Between the matted fur that coats Fantastic Mr. Foxand the various grotesqueries populating Adult Swim, "ugly animation" is experiencing something of a renaissance. That renaissance could cross over ifA Town Called Panic—a low-budget puppetoon by demented Belgian stop-motion artists Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier—adds an Oscar nomination to its 2009 Fantastic Fest Audience Award. Should the usually spectacle-minded Academy look past Panic's dime-store stars—most carrying self-explanatory names such as Horse, Cowboy, and Indian—they'll find a genuinely lovable (if a touch episodic and manic) filmgoing experience. Even for their amateurish looks, you've got to love the way these characters move—and devour foodstuffs 10 times their size.  

Between the matted fur that coats Fantastic Mr. Foxand the various grotesqueries populating Adult Swim, "ugly animation" is experiencing something of a renaissance. That renaissance could cross over ifA Town Called Panic—a low-budget puppetoon by demented Belgian stop-motion artists Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier—adds an Oscar nomination to its 2009 Fantastic Fest Audience Award. Should the usually spectacle-minded Academy look past Panic's dime-store stars—most carrying self-explanatory names such as Horse, Cowboy, and Indian—they'll find a genuinely lovable (if a touch episodic and manic) filmgoing experience. Even for their amateurish looks, you've got to love the way these characters move—and devour foodstuffs 10 times their size.  

Between the matted fur that coats Fantastic Mr. Foxand the various grotesqueries populating Adult Swim, "ugly animation" is experiencing something of a renaissance. That renaissance could cross over ifA Town Called Panic—a low-budget puppetoon by demented Belgian stop-motion artists Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier—adds an Oscar nomination to its 2009 Fantastic Fest Audience Award. Should the usually spectacle-minded Academy look past Panic's dime-store stars—most carrying self-explanatory names such as Horse, Cowboy, and Indian—they'll find a genuinely lovable (if a touch episodic and manic) filmgoing experience. Even for their amateurish looks, you've got to love the way these characters move—and devour foodstuffs 10 times their size.  

Between the matted fur that coats Fantastic Mr. Foxand the various grotesqueries populating Adult Swim, "ugly animation" is experiencing something of a renaissance. That renaissance could cross over ifA Town Called Panic—a low-budget puppetoon by demented Belgian stop-motion artists Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier—adds an Oscar nomination to its 2009 Fantastic Fest Audience Award. Should the usually spectacle-minded Academy look past Panic's dime-store stars—most carrying self-explanatory names such as Horse, Cowboy, and Indian—they'll find a genuinely lovable (if a touch episodic and manic) filmgoing experience. Even for their amateurish looks, you've got to love the way these characters move—and devour foodstuffs 10 times their size.