Project Detail

Minema Cinema

Name: Minema Cinema
Director: Tim Hope
Genre: Experimental
Released: 2004
Duration: 21 min 30 sec

A cartoon speaker cabinet with eyes and legs standing in a desert

Synopsis

A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s 52nd Street Project and London’s Scene & Heard theatre groups, the film is voiced by professional adult actors and directed to render the children’s dramatic intentions as sincerely as possible. Three short films within one film: Revenge Is Cold – Woody the box of matches dreams of becoming a lighter. In the Mexican desert he encounters Antus, an untrustworthy cactus, who claims he can help him fufil his ambitions. Together they journey to ‘The Land of the Freeze’ – the North Pole – where a surprise is in store for both of them. Love Then First Fight – Bob Brakinlot the crowbar is a reformed criminal, determined to give himself a second chance. Into his world bursts Blossom Shritz, a shirt whose life has been torn apart. Desperate for acceptance and affection, they seem to offer each other “a chance to be average in a nasty world“. But can they both put the past behind them? Keep Going – A young egg, Stuart, escapes from his fridge in Scotland on a mission to meet his hero, Michael Jackson.

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Details

Year: 2004
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 21 min 30 sec
Format: DigiBeta
Director: Tim Hope
Producer: Kai Simmons
Executive Producer: Russell Maclean
Editor: Chris Barwell
Screenwriter: Kevin Pinto, Thomas Gwyther, Acai Duang Arop
Sound: Tom Russell
Composer: Adelphoi Music, Antony Brown, Oliver Davis
Other Lead Creative(s): Tim Hope, Tim Sanpher, Tom Stanton, Matt Everitt, Naz Khajenouri
Title of original material: workshops devised at Scene & Heard with
Author: Kate Coleman and Sophie Boyack, Oliver Senton, Roger May, Jessica Radcliffe, Dan Copeland
Live-action: Sue Green
Graphics: Peter Richardson
Audio facility: We Write Music
Production company: Cloth Productions / Passion Pictures
Funding: an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Finetake Productions (animate!)

Contact: Finetake

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