Tom Thumb
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Based on an award-winning ten minute pilot, The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb is a sixty-one minute film combining 3-D model animation with an innovative use of pixilation- the technique of animating human actors frame by frame. The film is the first major production for the bolexbrothers, the Bristol-based studio. Tom Thumb was conceived, written, edited and directed by Dave Borthwick: "Pixilation is no small task for actors. A movement or expression that lasts for, say, five seconds on screen could take three or four hours to shoot."The result is a film which, although rooted in the basic elements of the old story, has been set in a world less remote than the traditional versions. The extraordinary pixilated animation and the mumbled, barely coherent dialogue, have created a timeless 'netherworld' filled with startling imagery, a strange place that is uncomfortably familiar.
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