The Village (1993)

Directed by

Mark Baker

Genre

animation

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

14 min

Rated

15+

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small English village full of hypocritical people, a gardener has an affair with an abused housewife. When her husband murders a neighbor and frames the gardener, the lovers face difficult consequences.

darkly comicbleaktensemelancholicslow-burnunsettlingsimplevisually understated

What happens

The Village, is a 1993 Oscar-nominated British animated short film directed by Mark Baker. The short film was animated using traditional hand-drawn animation. The film, directed and written by Baker, and produced by Pam Dennis, takes place in the eponymous village where the majority of the inhabitants are hypocrites. The main protagonists are the village gardener and his married lover, an abused housewife. Things become complicated for the lovers when the woman's husband murders a miserly neighbour to steal his gold and frames the gardener. The Village was initially made for the British television channel Channel 4. Pizazz Pictures, which was the studio where the crew worked, in managed the production, with Baker serving as director; Pizazz Pictures also distributed the animation. The Village aired on Channel 4 as a "Pizazz Pictures production". Today, The Village is available to watch on Baker's official website and YouTube channel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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