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Fishboy: Stop Motion Animated Short Film about Guilt

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Fish Boy lives in darkness, his guilt about the past slowly consuming him. A selection of Short of the Week, the web's leading curators of quality short films. SUBMIT A FILM: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/submit/ FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2021/08/09/fishboy/ Subscribe to S/W on YouTube! Website: http://www.shortoftheweek.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ShortoftheWeek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shortoftheweek Twitter: https://twitter.com/shortoftheweek Fish Boy Directed by Anita Bruvere "As a man with a fish head battles his inner demons, he’s forced to make a decision when his struggles start affecting the person closest to him. In Anita Bruvere’s impressive stop-motion short Fishboy, the director explores the theme of guilt and its repercussions by combining hand-crafted puppets and paint on glass animation to make this surreal narrative feel emotionally palpable and intensely compelling. Bruvere shared with us that “the idea was born from the image of a man with a fish head instead of a human head”. From that starting point, with screenwriter Bethe Townsend, they started thinking about what life would be like for this character and built their narrative around that premise. Explaining that the film is essentially “a couple having a conversation about their relationship, but shown in a metaphorical way”, the director adds that she “wanted to explore the themes of loss and guilt and how those feelings can affect people around the person experiencing those feelings”. In the conversations between the on-screen couple, guilt almost be…