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Aardman Retrospective






Aardman Animation retrospective 1972 – 2006

Cork Film Festival is delighted to present a retrospective of animated works from the multi Oscar winning Aardman Animations in Bristol.

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Aardman has a deserved reputation as a world leader in model animation. Their award-winning work is often imitated and yet the company continues to lead the field producing a unique brand of independent and commercial productions. The studio has been nominated for the Academy Awards eight times, and has won four.

Pib and Pog
England | 1994 | 6min | 35mm | Colour
This model animation production is a witty pastiche of classic children’s programmes. Pib and Pog bring a whole new meaning to mischief as their harmless pranks become ever more outrageous. This was Peter Peake’s first film for Aardman Animations.      

Pid and Pog

Loves Me…Loves Me Not
UK | 1992 | 2min | 35mm | Colour
A modern-day Narcissus?
A humorous exploration of male vanity?
A cheap gag film!

Loves Me...Loves Me Not

Cracking Contraptions - The Snoozatron
UK | 2000 | 2min | 35mm | Colour
Getting to sleep can be a problem when you eat as much cheese as Wallace. His solution is the “Snoozatron”, a simple device to aid the restless insomniac. For Wallace the machine is a triumph of precision engineering. For Gromit, his part in the machines cycle is a regular chore he could do without…

The Snoozatron

Angry Kid - Bone
UK | 1999/ 2000 | 1min | 16mm | Colour
Angry Kid is the teenager from hell - a snot-nosed ginger reprobate, stuck at that awkward age between childhood and adolescence. The stories are fraught with gross-out comedy, hilarious misunderstandings and a cast of bizarre, if strangely familiar, characters.  Because however much we may wince at his appalling antics, Angry Kid reminds us of the twisted youth that still lurks somewhere inside us all.

Angry Kid-Bone

Wat’s Pig
UK | 1996 | 11min | 35mm | Colour
Shot split-screen WAT’S PIG tells the tale of two brothers, cruelly separated at birth, who live as neighbours, never knowing of each other’s existence.   In a castle on the hill, one brother lives as a powerful and wealthy EARL.   Meanwhile his brother WAT, who has been raised since childhood by a friendly PIG, scrapes a living in his  humble hovel. When a nearby Baron threatens the Earl with War,  fate unexpectedly bring these two lives together again....

Wats-Pig

Len’s lens
UK | 2001 | 2min | 35mm | Colour
Amateur astronomer Len is over the moon when he discovers a new comet. But a disdainful colleague is not so sure this heavenly body is all it appears to be …

Len's lens

The Morph Files
UK | 1995 | 9min | 35mm | Colour
From the artist’s workbench… Morph continues on his ventures.

The Morph Files

Next
UK | 1995 | 5min | 35mm | Colour
An empty stage, one actor, and the complete works of William Shakespeare. This is an audition quite unlike any other, and with a great deal at stake.

Next

Cracking Contraption - The Auto Chef
UK | 2000 | 2min | 35mm | Colour
Breakfast is Wallace and Gromits favourite meal. But why bother cooking yourself when you have an “Autochef”, the combined cooker and waiter on wheels? Wallace is anxious to prove that his troublesome invention is perfectly safe around the home. Gromit isn’t so sure about the cheeky robot and he may have good reason to be weary …

The Auto Chef

Angry Kid – Car Sick
UK | 2001 | 1min | 16mm | Colour
Car Sick: Excessive travel snacking leads to digestive disaster.

Angry Kid - Car Sick

Creature Comforts - Monarchy Business
UK | 2005 | 9min | 35mm | Colour
What happens when an Indian elephant breaks into Buckingham Palace? Why do the royal ravens wish the Queen would get a proper job? What do the corgis think about the royal collection, and how does Prince Charles’s small talk go down with the flora in the royal garden? Royalists rave and republicans rant beneath the union jack.

Monarchy Business