Carecrow

Carecrow is an allegory about climate responsibility. It follows an unnamed character as they adapt their understanding of how they relate to the world around them.

Carecrow has been awarded Best Fiction at the Southampton Film Week and Best Animation in Cotswold International Film Festival. It has also been nominated for awards at the Cardiff Mini Film Festival and Little Wing Film Festival and has been selected to be shown in Sustainable Stories Film Festival, Lift-Off's First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, Animation Dingle, Nature & Culture Film Festival and London Mountain Film Festival.

Carecrow was completed in 2022.

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  • The set is designed to imitate the disappearing perspective of rows of crops, as modelled here on a walk with my parents' dog, Rodney.

  • The hill allows for a horizon regardless of how high or low you decide to position the camera, providing versatility with angles

  • Threads hung above the set and flour-water to simulate rain

  • Waxed ties and loose threads can be moved to simulate wind

  • Sun

  • Wind

  • Rain

  • Flood

  • The Carecrow puppet is built around a ball and socket armature. It has a hessian sack around balsa wood for a head. The garments are handmade.

  • The set is built with wood and papier mache, with wool strips to mimic rows of crops going over a hill into a disappearing horizon

  • Apparatus dangling spools of thread to imitate rain

  • Handmade leather shoes

  • Handmade washing up gloves

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