The past few years have seen a lot of films on the subject of strained masculinity. Very few of them have been this direct, or this cute.
Nominated for a BAFTA, Ross Stringer’s engaging little short uses deceptively simple animation which looks like a young child’s pencil scribblings to tell the story of a boy who doesn’t seem much older, but who is deemed ready to start taking on masculine responsibilities. We first meet him when he’s on a boat with his father, who hauls up a crab trap and puts its occupant into a bucket, just for him. Is it intended as a pet? Well, no...
Back on shore, everything is industry and process. Large square men pass crates of crabs along, one to another. In another line, boys gather, each with his own crab in a bucket. When he reaches the front of the line,...
Nominated for a BAFTA, Ross Stringer’s engaging little short uses deceptively simple animation which looks like a young child’s pencil scribblings to tell the story of a boy who doesn’t seem much older, but who is deemed ready to start taking on masculine responsibilities. We first meet him when he’s on a boat with his father, who hauls up a crab trap and puts its occupant into a bucket, just for him. Is it intended as a pet? Well, no...
Back on shore, everything is industry and process. Large square men pass crates of crabs along, one to another. In another line, boys gather, each with his own crab in a bucket. When he reaches the front of the line,...
- 2/17/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Finalists have been announced for the 2024 British Animation Awards, which will take place on March 7 at London’s BFI Southbank.
Contending for best feature film are “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,” “A Cat Called Dom,” “Kensuke’s Kingdom,” “Puffin Rock and The New Friends” and “The Amazing Maurice.”
“Christopher at Sea,” “The Debutante” and “All Gucci My Broski” are nominated in the short film category.
Adjoa Andoh, Benedict Cumberbatch, Emilia Clarke, Idris Elba, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander and Hugh Laurie are among the ensemble cast members nominated for best voice performance for “Mog’s Christmas” “The Amazing Maurice” and “The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and the Horse.”
Baa also acknowledges achievement in television, with “Tweedy & Fluff,” “The Sound Collector – Harp Strings,” “The Rubbish World of Dave Spud – Moonbreaker” and “Lloyd of the Flies” nominated for best children’s series.
For best original music, composer David Arnold is nominated for “Mog’s Christmas...
Contending for best feature film are “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,” “A Cat Called Dom,” “Kensuke’s Kingdom,” “Puffin Rock and The New Friends” and “The Amazing Maurice.”
“Christopher at Sea,” “The Debutante” and “All Gucci My Broski” are nominated in the short film category.
Adjoa Andoh, Benedict Cumberbatch, Emilia Clarke, Idris Elba, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander and Hugh Laurie are among the ensemble cast members nominated for best voice performance for “Mog’s Christmas” “The Amazing Maurice” and “The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and the Horse.”
Baa also acknowledges achievement in television, with “Tweedy & Fluff,” “The Sound Collector – Harp Strings,” “The Rubbish World of Dave Spud – Moonbreaker” and “Lloyd of the Flies” nominated for best children’s series.
For best original music, composer David Arnold is nominated for “Mog’s Christmas...
- 2/14/2024
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
With its hand-drawn style and sparing use of colour, Ross Stringer’s animated short film Crab Day is an excellent example of how you can do so much with seemingly little. It follows a father and son who attend a yearly fishing ritual where, for the first time, the son must kill a crab in order to become a man and win his father’s approval. The short was created during Stringer’s time at the National Film and Television School and is a great testament to both the breadth of creative expression the school encourages within its pupils as well as the high level of quality the institution produces. That’s a feat not just acknowledged by Dn either as the brilliance of Stringer’s short has been recognised with a nomination from Britain’s largest film awards body, the BAFTAs. With the annual event on the horizon, Dn...
- 2/6/2024
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
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