House on a Frozen Lake

Details: 1996, 10 mins, 35mm

Summary: What are we if not the product of our environments? An exploration of the influences an environment has on a person.

Credits
Discussion
Festivals & distribution
Technique

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Credits

Directed – Lucy Lee
Producer – Myf Hopkins (assistant Donal McCusker)
Script – Lucy Lee, Zillah Crosby
Animation & Puppets – Lucy Lee (assistants Julie Otten, Tara Bacon)
Sound – Adele Kellett
Music – Sam Sutton
© NFTS 1996

Discussion

This looks at how we are influenced by our environment. It has plenty of symbolism and references in it, you can have some fun working it out for yourself!

It was influenced by Mervyn Peake’s ‘Gormenghast’, and living in the film school. Sure enough, the following year I escaped to make my next film in siberia - about as far away as I could get!

Festivals & Distribution

1997
Edinburgh Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
International Short Film Fest - Krakow
1998
Hiroshima
2005
ROSHD International Film Festival, Tehran – Iran

(I’m not sure where else it went)

Technique

Puppet animation. Puppets are 14.5 inches high and made of chicken bones with Bolsa wood heads and ball and socket joints. The bird is a Blackbird skeleton, with animation wire running through the bones.