Directed by Jayne Helliwell

www.youtube.com/JayneHelliwell

2006, 3 minutes

Synopsis

‘The People Did Not Like It Here’ is an animated short about our wasteful world.  As people we are extractive and abusive and as a result or world is ending.  Any one would think we did not like it here by the way we treat it.  No action and no preserving means we will soon be gone.  No question.

Using hand-drawn and collage techniques, this animation was largely put together in After Effects with music created by Andy Telling.

Script

I meet him in the morn, where the lasses do convene.  I was afraid and he knew that.  He told me why it was all going to end.  More is better and in wanting more the world is ending.  And the irony is, we know what we are doing. 

Meanwhile on the other side of the alps, Goths and Ghouls shot arrows at advancing storm clouds, some were captive, others free flying.  I pledged to preserve everything. 

But it was done.  ‘The people did not like it here’ they will say.

Narration: Jenny Bell

Had Animation Screened at

OneMinuteFestival, Switzerland

Norwich International Animation Festival

Rebelfest, Canada

Cardiff Film Festival

Tokatsu International Film Festival, Japan

Santiago International Short Film Festival

SkenaUp! Kosovo

AniFest, Czech Republic

Halloween Short Film Festival, London

Bird’s Eye View Festival, London

MTV2