Thursday, April 16, 2009

Film Festivals 2

"Rabbit" is a short animation film by Run Wrake. "Rabbit" has been shown at film festivals all over the world including Ireland, Portugal, Brazil, Australia and Japan. One of the film's first screenings was at Trafalgar Square in London, England as part of the London Festival. The next summer, in 2006, it was shown on the giant 50 foot open-air-screen in Hyde Park, New York City. "Rabbit " was shown before the main feature film. Run Wrake's film has received many animation and short film awards.

"Rabbit" feels like a 1950's school reader. According to Photoshoppix, Wrake found some old stickers in a junk shop and used them in this film. He started with about 200 stickers and it took him about a year to make this short animation film.

This animation film is not meant for children. While colourful children's illustrations are used, "Rabbit" has a serious tone. The boy and girl in the story have a major flaw and there is a clear moral or lesson for the viewers.

For English language learners, you may like the unusual setting. It's a bit like a picture dictionary. You'll see what I mean by watching it. Rabbit is a strange artistic film.





Now tell the story. Press "comments" below this post and help tell the story. Each person should write two or three sentences of the story. The first person will start the story and each person will continue the story. If the story finishes, the next person will start the story again.

Remember, you will continue the story from where the last person stopped. Replay the video if you need help. I look forward to reading the story:)

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

The story showed that a rabbit was
freely running in the grazing land,listening to the birds singing ,and enjoying the beautiful enviroment.But,it didn't detect that a calamity was coming!A girl saw it and brought a knife to chase up it.But the rabbit ran very fast ,and she was not able to catch it.Then a boy jumped down from a tree and stepped on the rabbit.

Anonymous said...

After that the boy took the rabbit and went into the house. The girl followed him. When they were inside, the girl cut the rabbit into two pieces while the boy was holding it. The idol was inside the rabbit.

Mehrnoosh said...

Idol had a magic power that could change things to some other things like insects to jewel, cage to pie and... .He ate jam to get power to magic things.

jenny said...

When the boy and girl knew idol can lets bees became jewel, they decided to caught idol and limited his action.
The girl made a lot of apple jam and put it in a big container, then took the container out of the house. Idol followed her to went outside and ate apple jam. When he was eating,so many bees flew around him, he made them became lots jewel. The boy and girl were very happy and took those jewel into their house.

rosalie said...

The boy and girl decided to bring all the box jewel in town center to sold them to the jawellry store.

Jing said...

when they went to store to delivery ink and feather, idol was changing something to crown and gun at their home .Meanwhile,The rabbit came back to their house and changed tiger to bite the idol.At the time,they returned home and opened the door.

Anghy c. said...

The children wanted to deffend the diol,and took the gun and killed the tiger after this changed to rabbit.the boy tried to catch the rabbit for killback,but suddendly appeared a lot of centiped from all the boxes over them.

Lisa said...

The centipedes covered and offensed the childrens,eventually, they were not able to stand against the centipedes. They might be died.
The rabbit, which had a idol,could regain the freedom and ran on the grass

Adineh said...

As a conclusion, we should always rely on real things instead of imaginary things. When you achieve something without trying, the possibility of losing it quickly is high.

kiana said...

The story teaches the fact that nothing can be constructed on the basis of a dterioration. As it seems, children, the main figures in this story, were convinced that with some little effort they can have much much more. But at the end they are entraped in the plan they had to make an unbeliveable wealth and power. It also shows that during childhood and adolescence, people tend to think magical and are more interested to access big goals with little effort. But in my view the story was told in a terrible style and creats, especially with the annoying music accompanied, a sense of fear and avoidance.

Bonnie Ford said...

Thank you all for the wonderful story. It is not easy to tell, but it shows you understand the story. I can see some of you tried to use new vocabulary. That's great!

Anonymous said...

In the story rabbit was running freely and rabbit don,t know that a gril want to caught the rabbit.A gril couldn,t cought rabbit.A boy was hidden on the tree when rabbit across that tree a boy jummed onto rabbit and they became successful to cought rabbit.After,they bought rabbit at home and both were looked happy.