Explores the nature of man, not only with feet of clay, but with a face of clay as well. Within a colourless city of walls, corridors, and small rooms, a man makes his way from home to work, then to a bar, and then, by a stroke of luck, into an outdoors of space, fresh air, and colour. Along the way, he changes his face to fit his surroundings, interacts with his dog, argues with co-workers, and gossips at a bar. His altering of his visage suggests a two-faced nature, and his stepping into the outdoors provides the ultimate test of his real identity.
Direction
Starzak's precise clay manipulation
Practical Effects
Hand-molded face changes, frame by frame
Director
Richard Starzak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Starzak later directed Shaun the Sheep Movie—same clay, wildly different tone.
Made during Thatcher's Britain, the colorless corridors echo bureaucratic dehumanization. The 'stroke of luck' escape reads as accidental transcendence.
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