Director: Run Wrake
UK/2005/8mins/color
Run has lived in London and worked as a freelance
animator since graduating from the Animation MA
course at London's Royal College of Art in 1990.
He has produced several self-financed short films
alongside commercials, titles and music videos.
As well as receiving a BAFTA nomination,
RABBIT has screened at film festivals all over the
world to critical acclaim.
A selection of 1950s educational stickers, found
in a provincial junkshop twenty years ago, 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?
rabbit tells a tale of lost innocence, greed and the
random justice of nature.
"The skies were all shot out of the back
window of my house. They were
all shot early in the evening and then
reversed to give the illusion of
a sunset rather than a sunrise."
"The idol was really the catalyst for the
whole story, I knew I wanted
to make a simple morality tale about
greed and once I focused in on him,
I then decided he would have the power
to transform objects."
Run Wrake on Rabbit
Commentary by Run Wrake recorded in London, England.
Courtesy of Run Wrake and Animation Show LLC. All Rights
Reserved.
