Short film

Diddly Squat
2020 · 15 min
An intimate, collage-like drift through London squat life that blurs documentary texture with playful animation and leaves you pondering who really owns a home.
- Directed by
- Frank Lebon
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Animation
- Starring
- Charley Palmer Rothwell, Hak Baker, Sonya Baring
- Overview
- A 15-minute short about squatting in London, the film sees Lebon’s signature melding of cut-and-paste graphics and animation meet disarmingly intimate camera work. Told from the perspective of both the squatter and the squatted, it explores unconventional choices and the moral grey areas found in ownership, public and private living, family and community.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Class, family, identity, morality
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Frank Lebon
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Animation
- Starring
- Charley Palmer Rothwell, Hak Baker, Sonya Baring


