THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
In 1993, Henry Selick’s production, The Nightmare Before Christmas, set the cinema ablaze with a unique blend of fantasy and noir style – a spectacular success with $50 million in box office revenue for a stop-motion film. Since then, the film has been considered a cult classic, which Disney revived annually in theaters from 2006 to 2010. The idea came from Tim Burton, who served as producer and the creative mind behind the story.
An artist is now taking on this darkly fairytale world: she portrays herself as Sally, the hybrid creature composed of flesh and fabric, inspired by Frankenstein’s Monster. As a toxicologist in the fictional world of Halloween Town, she experiments with poisons – and also possesses the gift of having visionary insights into the future. Her gruesome barbed wire, the tattered dress, and melancholic eyes testify to a beauty rooted in vulnerability.
