Project Detail

Francis

Name: Francis
Director: Richard Squires (aka Let Me Feel Your Finger First/ LMFYFF)
Genre: Experimental, LGBTQIA+
Released: 2007
Duration: 3 mins 36 secs

Synopsis

Francis is an account of the creation of a 9-year-old 'defective' animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, his behaviour is observed and assessed by a child psychologist. The boy’s responses – initially slow and apparently flawed – develop in unusual comic directions as the examination progresses.
As his vocalisations begin to address the nature of his animated world and the psychologist continues to try and interpret his actions, it appears that Francis may ‘break out’ once and for all and become a ‘real’ animated character. Francis playfully addresses notions of construction and the role that language plays in interpreting, classifying and creating certain types. In an animated world populated by impressionable idiot figures, mischief-makers and oddballs with strange vocal mannerisms, Francis puts the cute but simple cartoon character into therapy for a case study of 'animated behaviour'.

Details

Year: 2007
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 3 mins 36 secs
Format: DigiBeta
Director: Richard Squires (aka Let Me Feel Your Finger First/ LMFYFF)
Producer: Animate Projects
Editor: Let Me Feel Your Finger First
Director of Photography: David Raedeker
Sound: Byron Blake
Principal cast: Gary Mackay, Will Eaton
Film Image: © LMFYFF

Genre

Experimental LGBTQIA+

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Let Me Feel Your Finger First

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Sales Company

LuxWaterlow Park Centre

Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF

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