animate!

Films : Rabbit : all

animate! synopsis

A dreamlike but dark story of lost innocence and the random justice of nature, told with curious images from a distant childhood. When an idol is found in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long?

one sentence synopsis

A modern mystery film of lost innocence, greed and nature.

short synopsis

A selection of 1950s educational stickers, discovered in a provincial junkshop twenty years ago, provide the ingredients for this adult fairytale.

When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long?

long synopsis

A selection of 1950s educational stickers, discovered in a provincial junkshop twenty years ago, provide the ingredients for this adult fairytale.

Once, they were new, delivering a simple message to those also young. Like us, however, they have grown older and now present a more complex meaning.

Rabbit tells a tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long?

key credits

director: Run Wrake
assistant animator: Martin Morris; Barnaby Hewlett; Murray John
editor: Rich White
music: Howie B; Craig Richards
dubbing editor: Craig Butters
dubbing mixer: Cliff Jones

Run Wrake

short biography

Run has lived in London and worked as a freelance animator since graduating from the Animation MA course at the Royal College of Art in 1990. He has produced several self-financed short films alongside commercials, titles and music videos (notably for Howie B and The Charlatans). For many years he contributed regular illustrations to NME magazine.

He completed his previous animate! commission Jukebox in 1994.

July 2004

filmography

Run Wrake Director

Short Films

ANYWAY 16mm 1990
JUKEBOX 16mm 1994
M2 – PING BATTER PONG, PUSHAWAY, RHYTHM FILM Beta Video 1998
WHAT IS THAT Beta Video 2001
LESSONS IN SMOKING Beta Video/DVD 2002
NME GALLERY Beta Video/DVD 2002
RABBIT Beta 2005

Music Videos

CADILLAC – GANG OF FOUR 1991 unavailable
TV TAN – THE WILDHEARTS 1993 unavailable
MUSIC FOR BABIES – HOWIE B 1996 35mm/Beta/DVD
BUTTMEAT – HOWIE B 1996 Beta/DVD
WE HAVE EXPLOSIVE – FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON 1996 Beta
ANGELS GO BALD TOO – HOWIE B 1997 Beta
TAKE YOUR PARTNER – HOWIE B & ROBBIE ROBERTSON 1997 Beta
SWITCH – HOWIE B 1998 Beta
PUSSYFOOT DVD MANIAC MELODY, I CAN SING, SHE CALLED AGAIN 1999 Beta
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON 2000 Beta
WE BELONG IN THIS WORLD TOGETHER – STEREO MCs 2001 Beta
MR BOBBY – MANU CHAO 2001 Beta
TRY AGAIN TODAY – THE CHARLATANS 2004 Beta
FLYOVER – ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION 2005 Beta
MTV STINGS – M STANDS FOR 1992 M ALSO STANDS FOR 1995 Beta/DVD
MTV ‘Musicman’ Idents 2005

Commercials

COCA COLA ‘Falling’ 1996 30”
COCA COLA ‘Easter Chicks’ 2000 30”
NATWEST BANK ‘Rear Window’ 1999 40”
ALIATEL PRAGUE 2000 2×30”

Television Graphics

JONATHAN ROSS PRESENTS… 1990 Title Sequence C4
MTV EUROPEAN TOP TWENTY 1999 Title Sequence & Graphic Design
THE SHOWBIZ SET 2002 Title Sequence C4
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER 2003 Title Sequence & Inserts BBC
IOO GREATEST MUSICALS / SEXY MOMENTS 2003 Title Sequences & Graphics C4

Live /Visuals

U2 POPMART TOUR 1997
BALTIMORE RAVENS Team Entrance 1998
SOUND REPUBLIC Bar 1998
OASIS GLASTONBURY 2004
U2 VERTIGO WORLD TOUR 2005
U2 / PAUL McCARTNEY LIVE 8 2005

3 October 2005

downloadable CV

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23 September 2005

artist’s photo

14 September 2005

animate! films by this artist

Jukebox

Rabbit

artist’s website

Run Wrake

a film by Run Wrake

direction

director: Run Wrake

image personnel

assistant animator: Martin Morris; Barnaby Hewlett; Murray John
editor: Rich White

incorporated image material

original illustrations by Geoffrey Higham

sound personnel

music: Howie B; Craig Richards
dubbing editor: Craig Butters
dubbing mixer: Cliff Jones

support

primary funding: an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4

Rabbit front title

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technical

process summary

Mixed media including ‘found’ educational stickers and hand-drawn abstract animation, compiled in After Effects.

master copy format

format: DigiBeta
colour or black & white: colour

video distribution format

video format: DigiBeta
screen aspect ratio: 16:9
video standard: PAL
sound type: stereo

film distribution format

film format: 35mm
screen aspect ratio: 1:1.85
sound type: Dolby

distributor

LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk

Run Wrake
info@runwrake.com
www.runwrake.com

production material

reference images

: Pre-production concept still

: Pre-production concept still

: Envelope containing educational stickers published by Philip & Tacey Limited; Published in the 1950s, found by Run Wrake in a secondhand shop in the 1980s. The envelope contained sheets of educational stickers illustrated by Geoffrey Higham, including the couple shown immediately below. Philip & Tacey is still a successful supplier of teaching resources in 2005.