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A darkly comic story about procrastination in which a man becomes entangled in his own domestic web. His repeatedly unsuccessful attempts to leave his flat eventually set off a series of chain reactions ensuring his inevitable descent into domestic chaos! The film is a psychological drama that strikes a chord with the audience by depicting the character in the grip of this common neurosis.
Filmmaker - Bunny Schendler was born in London in 1966. She studied on the foundation course at Wimbledon School of Art in 1986-87, and then at Liverpool Polytechnic, where she took a fine art degree in sculpture.
She moved back to London in 1991 and made her first animated film, 'The Birds', on her kitchen table. She studied animation at the Royal College of Art from 1993-1995 and mtwo films, 'The Room' and 'Flicker', which have been shown in festivals throughout Europe. During this time she also made 'Palindrome', an installation of animated holograms, which was purchased by the Business Design Centre and was included in several exhibitions, among them the 1995 holography exhibition at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford.
In 1996 she worked as color designer on the Channel four series 'Pond Life' (directed by Candy Guard) and in 1997 became a director at Bermuda Shorts. Since then, in addition to developing her own ideas, she has worked as an animator on several music-based projects, including animated Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein images for the stage show of U2's Popmart World Tour. She directed two title sequences for Ketnet, a Belgian TV Network. She also directed a ten-second commercial with the illustrator Ian Pollock for The York Dungeons.
In February 1999, Bunny became Animator in Residence at the Museum of the Moving Image where she worked on the development of her film, The World of Interiors. The film was commissioned by Channel Four and since it's completion in 2001, has been widely screened at festivals throughout the world. As well as a nomination for the 2002 BAFTA for animation, the film has just won the Animated Eye Award at the Aspen Shortsfest in April 2003.
In 2002 she joined Slinky Pictures and in August 2002, finished her latest commission, for S4C, The Evolution of the World up to Modern Man.
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