The Village (animated short film)
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The Village, 1993 | |
| Directed by | Mark Baker |
| Written by | Mark Baker |
| Produced by | Pam Dennis |
| Starring | Annie Griffin, Dave Western, James Baker |
| Edited by | Annie Kocur |
| Music by | Julian Nott |
| Animation by | Christine Anders, Lynne Anderson, Neville Astley, Mark Baker, Sally Baxter, Sharon Boxall, Guy Brockett, Juliet Bunce, Christine Courtney, Caroline Cruikshank Martin Davey, Roxanne Ducharme, Alyson Hamilton, Lynne Holzer, Flora Keen, Sara Kent, Angela Kovacs, Chris Lambrou, Berni Leroy, Vanessa Luther-Smith, Gaston Marzio, Tom Newman, Isabel Radage, Paul Ray, Sandra Roach, Sharon Smith, Rachael Stedman, Paul Stone, Peter Western, Pete Wood, Julia Woolf, Rosemary Young |
Production company | Pizazz Pictures |
| Distributed by | Pizazz Pictures |
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Running time | 15 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Village, is a 1993 Oscar-nominated British animated short film directed by Mark Baker. The short film was animated using traditional hand-drawn animation. The film, directed and written by Baker, and produced by Pam Dennis, takes place in the eponymous village where the majority of the inhabitants are hypocrites. The main protagonists are the village gardener and his married lover, an abused housewife. Things become complicated for the lovers when the woman's husband murders a miserly neighbour to steal his gold and frames the gardener.
The Village was initially made for the British television channel Channel 4. Pizazz Pictures, which was the studio where the crew worked, in managed the production, with Baker serving as director; Pizazz Pictures also distributed the animation. The Village aired on Channel 4 as a "Pizazz Pictures production".
Today, The Village is available to watch on Baker's official website and YouTube channel.