Short film
The Chimes
1999 · 23 min
A sombre, handcrafted Victorian fable that drifts like a ghost story, gentle in motion but heavy with social conscience.
- Directed by
- Lindsay Van Blerk
- Genres
- Animation, Drama
- Starring
- Cindy Harrison, Derek Jacobi, Gordon Van Rooyen
- Tagline
- A claymation Christmas story by XYZoo Animation
- Overview
- A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Charles Dickens which was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest, dark and warm. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Class, politics, morality, redemption
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Lindsay Van Blerk
- Genres
- Animation, Drama
- Starring
- Cindy Harrison, Derek Jacobi, Gordon Van Rooyen
