Director
Dave Borthwick
Composer
John Paul Jones, The Insects
Cast
Nick Upton, Deborah Collard, Frank Passingham
Edition 1994
60'
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1993
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Drama, Animated film, Adventure
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Dialogue:
English
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.
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Credits
Directors
Dave Borthwick
Composers
John Paul Jones, The Insects
Cast
Nick Upton, Deborah Collard, Frank Passingham
Scenario
Dave Borthwick
Director of Photography
Dave Borthwick, Frank Passingham
Editors
Dave Borthwick
Producers
Richard 'Hutch' Hutchison
More info
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United Kingdom
Year
1993