11 minutes of stop-motion existential dread dressed as domestic farce. You'll never trust a toaster again.
It’s the Little Things that frustrate us all. Everyday sketches of a dysfunctional world in which nothing quite works and everybody has their foibles. Can the repetition of mundanity endure under extreme circumstances?
Practical Effects
Hand-crafted stop-motion chaos, every frame labored over
Sound
Creaks and clatters become characters themselves
Direction
Greaves builds entire worlds in 11 minutes
Director
Daniel Greaves
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Daniel Greaves won an Oscar for his 1992 short 'Manipulation'—this is him proving he could do anxious instead of whimsical.
Part of a weirdly specific British tradition: kitchen-sink despair rendered through painstaking craft, from Aardman's 'Creature Comforts' to this.
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