Creature Comforts (short film)

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Movie
Original title Creature Comforts
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 6 minutes
Rod
Director Nick Park
script Nick Park
production Sara Mullock
for Aardman Animations
cut William Ennals

Creature Comforts is a 1989 clay-animated short film directed by Nick Park .

action

In a zoo , various animals are asked about their keeping conditions. A polar bear cub thinks to the horror of his parents that the zoo is good for old, poor or even deceased animals. The polar bear father later admits that he likes to eat steaks . The armadillos see the zoo positively, while a Brazilian puma , lying on a barked tree in its cage, complains that the food does not look like meat but like dog food, that it needs more space and sun and that flowers cause hay fever . A young hippopotamus complains that the cages are too narrow and dirty, and so are the turtlesadmit to have lived better already. The extremely far-sighted koala lady, on the other hand, feels safe and well protected. In the end, the cougar realizes that he only wants to go to a warmer country, no matter which one is called, he would go.

production

Creature Comforts was created as part of the British television channel Channel 4's Lip Synch series and was first broadcast on July 15, 1989. For the film, residents of a housing estate and an old people's home were asked about their housing situation by Julie Sedgewick . Other respondents knew about the project or should put themselves in the shoes of a particular animal when answering. Then Nick Park formed the mouth movements of the clay figures on the respondents' sentences, which now appeared lip-synchronized. If the answers were previously related to one's own living situation, they now appeared as the answers of the zoo animals.

reception

The film was so popular that from 1990 to 1992 plastic-animated commercials for the "Heat Electric" campaign run by private electricity providers were made, which had the same principle as the short film. The commercials won several awards and finally led to the clay-animated television series Creature Comforts , which has been running since 2003 and is broadcast in Germany on Comedy Central .

The short film AlieNation by Laura Lehmus from 2014 has similarities with Creature Comforts . While in Creature Comforts zoo animals made of plasticine reflect their keeping conditions, Lehmus put the statements of teenagers about their puberty problems into the mouth of their characters.

Awards

Creature Comforts was nominated for a BAFTA in the Best Animated Short Film category in 1990. In 1991 he won the Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ”.

Nick Park was awarded the Grand Prix in 1991 at the Festival d'Animation Annecy .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See imdb.com
  2. ^ A b Kathrin Horster: Stuttgarter Filmwinter: Experimentation expressly encouraged - Stuttgarter Zeitung. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. January 13, 2016, accessed May 31, 2016 .