Finding your next obsession
Finding your next obsession

Plunge into exciting, strange and beautiful animated worlds with Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb as he celebrates the new breed of animators whose short films include malicious toasters, cheeky Glaswegian pigeons, job-haunting ghosts and incredibly smelly fungi. Stylistically, the films include a beautiful pen and ink evocation of Manchester architecture, a super-real, digital recreation of the human body and all points between. Fanny Eaton: The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Model; Headless Population; It's Not the End of the World; It's Raining, It's Pouring; Job Haunting; Mirrors; Noise; Songs of the City; Spirit Corp.; The Gift; When the Tides Went Down; Glas & Gorm; Stinkhorn; The Last Train; Wheeze; What Is Love?
LUXEN Decision Guide
A visually expressive choice that uses animation as part of the storytelling rather than simply as a format label.
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Best suited to viewers open to a more stylized visual experience.
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Light commitment · 58m
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