Creature Comforts (1989)

Synopsis: An animation festival wrapped into one convenient video package, this collection consists of four short films that highlight the diversity and highly unique visions of contemporary British... An animation festival wrapped into one convenient video package, this collection consists of four short films that highlight the diversity and highly unique visions of contemporary British practioners of the art of claymation. Nick Park's contribution, the hilarious CREATURE COMFORTS, takes actual dialogue recorded by Park and an assistant and animates the interviews as if they were the thoughts of various zoo animals. WAT'S PIG, directed by Peter Lord, uses a split screen to illustrate the contrasting lives of a king and a pig-keeper, who are actually twins separated at birth. Boris Kessmehl's NOT WITHOUT MY HANDBAG takes place in a world where failure to make installment payments on a washing machine can lead to the loss of one's soul. In the final film, ADAM, Lord imagines the stop-motion animator as god and his clay creation as his put-upon, often unruly subject. [More]

Director: Nick Park, Peter Lord

Producer: Aardman Animations
Director: Nick Park, Peter Lord