Barry Purves, el animador escénico

Abstract

Barry Purves’s filmography is world-wide known in animation festivals. Barry J C Purves (Woodbridge, UK, 1955), an aspiring actor, unexpectedly became an animator after doing a test with puppets for Cosgrove Hall Films, where he produced commercial works for more than ten years. His awakening came with Next (1990), made for Aardman, and since he founded Bare Board Films masterpieces such as Screenplay (1992), Rigoletto (1993), Achilles (1995) or Tchaikovsky - An Elegy (2011) have followed his filmography. These puppets have great realism and convey powerful emotions but above all, the Purves personal films establish privileged relations with the entire legacy of performing arts, from Greek theatre to Classical theatre, Opera, Ballet, and even Bunraku puppet theatre. Purves has kept being a multi-faceted artist who alternates his personal films with productions for children, and in recent years he has designed and directed numerous theatrical productions, applauded by critics and public. In the following conversation Barry J C Purves unveils the keys to his creative process in animation and his personal relationship with the theatre.