Animated Short Films

'The Three Crow Boys' is a short, fairy tale like animated film, but with a dark story. The animation style and limit to black and white help to emphasise just how dark the story is. Watch with caution if you are easily scared.

'The Penguin Who Couldn't Swim' is a story about disability. A disabled penguin feels isolated from the rest of her kind because she cannot do the same things as them. Instead of spending all of her time miserable, she finds a way to do something new, teaching the others how to do it too rather than laugh at them as they once laughed at her. I find this animation very powerful- being disabled myself, it feels like being seen.

'Quarantine' is a story about a group of Morris-dancing badgers that want to keep their traditions going. The whole story is a metaphor for post-Brexit Britain. This one wasn't my favourite- while the animation itself was amusing, I was unable to interpret the message without reading the description afterward.