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Puppetboy

2008 · 27 min

A quiet, quirky peek into one artist's solitary fixation, by turns charming and faintly unsettling in its intimacy.

Overview
For more than a decade, an eccentric animator has worked on films featuring a little clay figure he calls "Puppetboy". Many hours of animation have been completed, yet very little has been made available to the public. Following the artist behind the scenes we discover a very intimate relationship between him an his protagonist.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • art
  • isolation
  • identity
  • loneliness
Places
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour4
Realism8
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Johannes Nyholm
Written by
Johannes Nyholm
Starring
Johannes Nyholm
Runtime
27 min
Country
Sweden
Languages
Swedish

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