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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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