The Empress
Directed by: Lyle Pisio
Animation | 2009 | 8min 25sec
Canada
www.lilyposie.ca

About the film:
Loneliness, Desire, Love, Hesitation, Miscommunication, Fear, and Loss with a touch of alcoholism for comic relief.

Screening Times: Shorts Block D @ Sinclair Auditorium
9:15pm Wednesday 6/16
5:00pm Thursday 6/17
5:00pm Saturday 6/19

About the filmmaker:
Born April 27, 1968, Lyle Pisio started out as a musician playing Alto Sax in the early 1980's, he was a founding member of the Calgary based band "Street of Crocodiles", which got its name from the animated film by the Brothers Quay. Adding the Double bass and Bass Clarinet to his repetoire, Lyle has always played mostly free-improvisational music, and has always thought of it as narative in quality. In the 1990's he was also a founding member of the bands "Tomato Tomato," "tokyosexwhale," and "Book Lily Dead Posie".
In mid 2000 he bought his first digital camera and started making very short stop motion animation films using objects found on the highway on long bicycle trips, using different techniques like creating films using computer programs that he wrote. In 2002 he released his first film "Corpse" which was created using a computer program that he wrote. In 2004 he released "TV" and "The Unholy" shot on miniDV and edited on the computer. 2006 saw "Another Lost Soul" a time-lapse film shot with a still camera attached to a reflective ball.
In early 2007 he quit his job as an instrument repair technician to pursue his dream of being an artist. He lives with his wife and 2 cats in Calgary, where he has been all his life (mostly in the basement).