Based on a novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones,
Earwig And The Witch follows the adventures of precocious young orphan Earwig as she is adopted and moves into a Witch’s house where chaos and magic surround everything.
Being the son of the great Hayao Miyazaki must bring its own pressures in life, especially when you go out to make your own directing career – in your father’s studio of all places. But that’s exactly what Gorō Miyazaki (pictured above) has done with
Earwig And The Witch and we managed to catch up with the man to find out if the apple falls far from the tree…
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Magic and art, myth and creativity. Part of why they go so beautifully together in stories is because it’s often hard to tell the difference. Poet or wizard? Musician or changeling? Spell or song? We don’t properly know where creativity comes from, so we revere it and distrust it in equal measure. That’s the thing about humans, isn’t it? We both love and fear anything we can’t put away in a cupboard at the end of the night or tuck into the bottom of our bag. It’s hard to say who treats the muse with more subjective awe consumer, or creator. Those who don’t create are mystified by those who do, imagining them plunging into an abyss and returning with art. But those who create are equally mystified. Why am I like this? Why can’t I stop?