Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Episode 004
In session with Jared DeFife, PhD
Featuring healthy-design expert, Matt Finn
With your host, Gene Kansas
Marcel The Shell with Shoes On started as a 3-minute mockumentary racking up more than 33 million views on YouTube. Now feature length, we learn about the bigger picture from a tiny star.
In Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, we explore life through the lens of a seashell and the magic of stop-motion animation. One of the things that’s so fun about this movie is that it started as a pet project that captured the attention of the Internet. Jenny Slate, who lends her voice to the young shell, was with Saturday Night Live before having an on-air faux pas that led to a swift departure. It was in the wake of this downturn Slate and live-in partner and director Dean Fleischer-Camp made the super popular short from their New York apartment before co-writing and creating the full-length motion picture we’re here to talk about today.
For this session of Popcorn Therapy, we have two very special guests in the studio and, as always, two who have a particular relevance to the film. Matt Finn is founder and principal of Cognitive Design, an architecture and consulting firm focused on health and the built environment with a passion for people. Also joining is returning star-guest Jared Defife Ph.D., founder of Dynamic Counseling & Consulting and a clinical psychologist, also with a passion for people…and cinema.
An architect who cares deeply about wellbeing, it seemed fitting to have Mr. Finn join to share how space can influence our health and our emotions. And, Mr. DeFife joins with the clinical side to the social aspects at play in the film and in life as we know it. Marcel and the rest of the crew do the rest. Enjoy!
