Boots Riley on the Animation and Production Design of 'I Love Boosters'

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Boots Riley discusses the creative process behind his second feature film 'I Love Boosters,' including the use of models and stop-motion animation. The article covers production design choices like a tilted San Francisco apartment and a reality-altering innertube based on dialectical materialism, as well as the filmmaking team's debates over visual elements like the 'Bodies' exhibit.

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From a luxe San Francisco apartment tilted 17 degrees (a compromise between the 25 degrees written into the script at the initial 15 degrees that production designer Christopher Glass proposed) to a reality-altering innertube that operates on the principles of dialectical materialism, writer/director Boots Riley has thrown everything in this world — plus one lonely, horny demon — for his second feature film.

But the filmmaking team at least debated throwing the 'Bodies' exhibit int

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Director Boots Riley tells IndieWire about getting inventive with models and stop-motion in 'I Love Boosters.'

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