Irish Folk Furniture (2012)

Directed by

Tony Donoghue

Genre

documentary, animation

Country

Ireland

Runtime

9 min

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short stop-motion film gives life to forgotten old furniture found in Irish barns. It shows the process of fixing them up and bringing them back into homes.

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What happens

Irish Folk Furniture is a 2012 short animated film directed by Tony Donoghue which won the prize for Best Animation at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It uses stop-motion animation to breathe life into the disregarded pieces of furniture that frequently lie rotting in Irish barns and sheds, showing the process of renovating them and returning them to the homes they once inhabited. The short was produced by Cathal Black under the IFB 'Frameworks' animated short film scheme. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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