DVD, Digital Release: Stuffed

Digital, DVD Release Date: March 3, 2020
Price: DVD $21.49
Studio: Music Box

Erin Derham’s documentary film Stuffed looks at the fascinating and surprising world of taxidermy, as told through the eyes and hands of acclaimed taxidermy artists across the world.

Stuffed plunges viewers into the remarkably diverse subculture of taxidermy, a world where its practitioners must be masters of a collection of unique disciplines. Along with having an understanding of sculpting and painting, they also need to have a grasp of chemistry and biology, animal behavior and movement, and they also must know hundreds of species’ habitats.

From an all-female studio in Los Angeles that has elevated taxidermy to the forefront of fashion and modern art, to a handful of fine artists in the Netherlands, to a big game taxidermist in Ohio and an anatomical sculptor in South Africa, the taxidermy artists of Stuffed are a collection of passionate experts who constantly push the creative boundaries of their profession. Additionally,  the film reveals the importance of preserving nature, using taxidermy as its unlikely vehicle and the taxidermist as its wild driver.