Thursday 5 July 2012


Bunny and The Bull
(Paul King, 2009)
IMDB
The house is a set of clutter and random collected items. Rooms are filled from top to bottom with boxes and boxes of organised and arranged junk, filed and stored precisely. The collections include stamps, drinking straws 1995 to 1996 and crossword cut-outs. The kitchen cupboard is filled with ready meals, labelled by day. All surfaces house piles of videotapes, folders and files.
The walls are also covered with clutter, one wall houses a variation of different clocks.
In a flashback, the scenery becomes illustrated and 2D. Chairs, tables and surroundings are drawn cut-outs, drawn fish swim in the fish tank. Landscapes are created from newspaper and on a visit to the shoe museum(!) the whole scene is filmed in front of a green screen. The surroundings of each scene are made from familiar objects, seen previously in the house- reality.
The sets are very handmade, some even noticeably and purposefully spill off from their rostra. The materials that the sets and props are made from are very recognisable, for example a floor in one case is created from black bin liners. A large pile of newspapers appear as the leg of a road bridge and there's a miniature fairground created from the the cogs and wheels within a cuckoo clock. Other rooms are created using illuminated beer crates and stacks of books too.

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