Adam
When The Hand of God creates Adam, he must learn the ways of the world, and can only hope for company...
Aardman Animations II
75 minutes
One rainy afternoon sometime around 1970 – nobody can ever remember the exact date or even the year - two schoolboys sat down at the kitchen table to experiment with the basics of frame-by-frame filmmaking. The boys were me and my mate Dave Sproxton, and the course we started on still continues nearly forty years later - though sadly the kitchen table got lost somewhere along the way.
We had no particular aim in view on that lucky day; somebody just told us it was fun. That first film still exists. It’s incredibly primitive, it’s barely animated at all, it has no narrative, and an analytical viewer can tell exactly when we became bored with the whole process and just wanted to hurry up to the finish so we could send the film off to the labs (Film? I hear you ask. Labs? It’s a historical process, look it up on Wikipedia). But I remember the result. I remember the sheer magic of the thing; that we’d spent a few hours working away at a table with a camera, and bits of paper and chalk and a couple of toy cars – to produce an event, a performance, that had never actually existed before. We’d brought something to life. We were animators.
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This program screened as part of HAFF 2008
Showing in this program
Big Jeff: Bushtucker Alphabet
Creature Comforts: Is There Anyone Out There?
Down and Out
A homeless pensioner tries to fathom the correct procedure to get a meal.
Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares for Me
An animated pop promo accompaniment for Nina Simone's classic song.
Pib and Pog
Purple and Brown: Sea Gulls
Rex the Runt: Stinky Basil’s Search for a Star
Stage Fright
The Pearce Sisters
An amusingly bleak-hearted tale of two weather-lashed old spinsters. Lol and Edna Pearce live on a remote and austere strip of coast. They scrape out a miserable existence from the sea. The Pearce Sisters is a tale of love, loneliness, guts, gore, nudity, violence, smoking and cups of tea. Winner Cartoon d'Or 2007
War Story
This short animated piece uses a real interview as its soundtrack. Bill Perry relates stories about his youth, his tilted house, and adventures during WWII in Bristol, England during the blitz.
Wat’s Pig
Two princes are separated at birth and reunited only after a crisis grips the country.
