Creature Comforts

Thematic Approaches to Character Curated by Lucy Walker

This five-minute animated film by Nick Park (of Wallace & Gromit fame) introduces us to a series of zoo animals being interviewed about their lives in captivity. Wonderfully expressive claymation polar bears, turtles, a gorilla, and others offer their reflections to an off-screen interviewer whose microphone maintains a presence in every frame. The animals have their own views, both positive and negative, on serving life sentences behind bars as opposed to experiencing life in the wild.

Director

Nick Park

Producers

Sara Mullock, Alan Gardner (Assistant Producer)

Editor

William Ennals

Cinematographers

Andy MacCormack, Fred Reed, David Alex Riddett, David Sproxton

Release Year

1989

Festival Year

2014

Country

United Kingdom

Run Time

5 minutes