Julian Dibbell meets some of the more prominent members of the brickfilm community, a bunch of dedicated types who make short, handmade animated films using stop-motion and Legos. The Lego Indiana Jones short has become a genre unto itself, along with Legis variations on the likes of Fight Club, Titanic, and assorted music videos. Now, ambitious brickfilmers (whose work can be sifted through at YouTube or freely sampled here have begun turning out insanely assured originals such as Nathan Wells's Unsound or Night of the Tater, by seventeen-year-old Nikolas Jaeger.
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