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Many Happy Returns

A puppet girl in a red flowered dress presses against a window, a walking figure reflected in the glass

Synopsis

The disjointed debris of our childhood state still lurking within our adult consciousness act as a painful, disruptive force. A ghost-like little girl keeps tapping on a woman's consciousness, demanding attention, recalling a traumatic childhood event and thus distorting her experience of the present.
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Details

Year
1996
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
8 min
Format
16mm, Digibeta
Director
Marjut Rimminen
Producer
Lee Stork
Editor
Tony Fish
Screenwriter
Harriett Gilbert
Sound
Nigel Heath
Principal cast
Kevin O'Donohoe, Sarah Strickett, Anthony May, Melanie Hudson, Camilla Hunsley
Other Lead Creative(s)
Marjut Rimminen (animation)
Live-action design and production
Daniel Simpson, Adam Cutts, Mark Sewell
Lighting
Layne Comarasawmy
Digital compositing
Timo Arnall

Genre

Drama Experimental Woman Director

Categories

Fiction Animation

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Tricky Films for Channel 4

Contact: Finetake

Sales Company

Channel Four International

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