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Rabbit
Run Wrake
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animation | 2005 | London | non-dialogue | 9 min
Published 16 May 06
A dreamlike but dark story of lost innocence and the random justice of nature, told with curious images from a distant childhood.
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synopsis
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?
A modern mystery film of lost innocence, greed and nature

This film was chosen to be part of the BBC Summer of British Film (shorts): Horror season. Watch more SOBF: Horror shorts on film network.
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I love the look of the stickers and was excited by the prospect of creating a story from the finite selection of images. Biggest challenge was creating the movement of the protagonists from such a limited source.
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  • animation assistants Martin Morris & Barnaby Hewlett
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    © 2005 Run Wrake

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    comment by Katherine  Young
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    posted Aug 4, 2007

    Creepy but with a moral.
    comment by Film Network Editors
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    posted Apr 24, 2007

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    comment by Account Cancelled -  New User with former account
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    posted Apr 23, 2007

    After so many (unsuccessful) attempts to play this video, I gave up hope... until I came across it on another website. A very nostalgic, bizarre and somewhat disturbing animation. Well done.
    comment by Matthew  Murphy
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    posted Feb 6, 2007

    What an imaginative and macabre way to present a fairytale. I just thought it was amazing. Storyline could have been lifted straight out of a James Herbert book ! Brilliant work guys !!

    comment by Bobbie  Fitts
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    posted Oct 30, 2006

    love it!
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