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ABOUT
ABOUT
2025
18-25 JUNE
Hazel
(Hannah Ford, 2025)
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
I love the creative freedom stop-motion gives, as I can create characters without limit. Hazel (2025) provided me with the opportunity to make a stop-motion short film that was both wholly my own and helped me discover my style. Hazel is an experimental film that portrays the idea of a familial breakdown using symbolism through violence within the domestic ‘nuclear’ household of a family of stop-motion rats, while juxtaposing the animated world with that of the real world. My role in producing The Painter (2024), as well as helping out on other student shorts, has helped me gain the confidence to create something that I can claim as my own.
This film is produced as part of Experimental Cinema Module.
SYNOPSIS
In this experimental stop-motion short, Hazel, a seemingly ordinary rat housewife, goes through the motions of a typical evening watching television and dining with her family. However, beneath the surface of her domestic routine lies a growing resentment. As the family shares what appears to be a regular meal, an unsettling truth is revealed, unbeknownst to them: this dinner will be their last. Hazel’s anger bubbles over as she massacres her whole family of rats.
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