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Alternative Fringe

1988 · 5 min

A quick, wry animated sketch that turns everyday frustrations into sharp, funny observations with deceptively simple drawings.

Directed by: Candy Guard
Genres: Animation

Overview: Famous for combining extremely simple line drawings with biting humour she lays bare the frustrations encountered by ordinary women in their daily lives. Candy Guard once disarmingly described her job as "writing funny stories and then drawing pictures to go with them", which goes some way towards explaining her success as both an animator and newspaper cartoonist.

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Directed by: Candy Guard
Genres: Animation

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Tone: satiricalstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: gender
work
identity
class
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Genres: animation
Directed by: Candy Guard
Written by: Candy Guard
Runtime: 5 min
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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