A stubborn gnome vs. modern problems in 5 minutes of pure stop-motion magic.
Practical Effects
Stop-motion gnome with actual personality in every jerky frame.
Direction
Ben Cresswell packs a full arc into 300 seconds.
Director
Ben Cresswell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stop-motion shorts this brief rarely attempt narrative arcs — Cresswell reportedly storyboarded 40 seconds of footage per day.
The film quietly joins a mini-renaissance of 'gnome rehabilitation' in indie animation, reclaiming them from garden kitsch.
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