IM Run Wrake & Dave Borthwick

80 minutes

In the past year, several animation filmmakers died that the HAFF would like to commemorate: Dave Borthwick (UK, director of The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb and more), Dutch actress and fine artist Sylvia Kristel (director Topor et moi), Run Wrake (UK, he won a Grand Prix HAFF 2006 for Rabbit), Fyodor Khitruk (director of films like Film, film, film and co-founder of the renowned SHAR Studio in Moscow).

This program screened as part of HAFF 2013

Showing in this program

Down with the Dawn

Down with the Dawn

  • Run Wrake
  • United Kingdom, 2012
  • 8 min.

For three weeks in November 2011 I underwent a series of tests that resulted in a diagnosis of cancer. That period inspired this film. Music by Howie B.

Rabbit

Rabbit

  • Run Wrake
  • United Kingdom, 2005
  • 8 min.

A selection of 1950s educational stickers provide the ingredients for this adult fairytale. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long?

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb

  • Dave Borthwick
  • United Kingdom, 1993
  • 61 min.