Watch any behind-the-scenes vignette on the making of a stopmotion animated film, and your jaw will hit the floor. Making those films is a lengthy, strenuous exercise in tedium that you hope will yield a compelling film. We all love “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” but when you realize it takes a full day to record mere SECONDS of footage? If you think about it, there really aren’t that many compared to hand-drawn and CGI-animated films. Robert Morgan’s first full-length feature “Stopmotion” isn't a documentary, but rather a window into obsession like “May” or the recent “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster.”
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