Moo(n)
[3min, Channel 4, 2003] Animated short for C4 with the voices of Matt Lucas & Robert Llewellyn, dir: Leigh Hodgkinson, prod: Slinky
* Nominated for Best Film at the Cutting Edge, and Best Sound in the British Animation Awards 2004
* Screened at Sundance (2005) and festivals in London, Miami, Ottawa, New York, Berlin, Edinburgh & Wellington (NZ)
A girl is friends with a cow. A bee interferes. Some of them end up on the moon and the cow gets very hungry.
You can watch this strange little film on YouTube. But it’s such a noisy clanging soundtrack that I’ve just put a short piece of music from the film here, so you can hear it on it’s own.
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The clumsy lilting 5/4 time signature gets used through most of the film, giving it a kind of off-kilter feel. I used various kitchen implements and bins to create the percussion track, and then a very decrepit old banjo put through a warbling effect for the melody.
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