The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb

This film is a blackly comic, hour-long animated film that no one who is interested in pushing the boundaries of stop motion techniques and powerful storytelling should miss. It is a post-industrial version of the famous fairytale Tom Thumb, born into destitution then taken for experimentation, before escaping to wander an ever-threatening world, searching for his parents. This film combines human and plasticine forms by way of the pixilation technique (animating human actors frame by frame) and creates a filmic netherworld where Eraserhead and Pinocchio meet.