Sweet Disaster (1986)

Original title

Death of a Speechwriter

Directed by

David G. Hopkins

Genre

animation, war

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

5 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a series of short animated films about the end of the world. Each film offers a different vision of the apocalypse, mixing dark humor with strange and thought-provoking imagery.

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What happens

Sweet Disaster is a 1986 series of short films, made for Channel 4. It consists of "animated visions of the apocalypse", and includes films such as Babylon and Sweet Disaster. The series was conceived by producer David Hopkins. TheLostContinent explains "Hopkins scripted each of these films aside from the dialogue-free Dreamless Sleep". The films are fairly obscure; Nick Park noted that Babylon "hasn't really seen the light of day for a long time." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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