Bobby Yeah | |
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Directed by | Robert Morgan |
Written by | Robert Morgan |
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Edited by | Robert Morgan |
Music by | ZnO |
Production company | swartz can talk |
Distributed by | blueLight |
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Running time | 23 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Bobby Yeah is a British stop motion animated surreal psychological horror short film written, directed and animated by Robert Morgan. It was made independently and completed in 2011, and later uploaded on Robert's YouTube Channel in HD in 2017.
The film premiered at the London International Animation Festival,[1] and went on to screen at numerous international film festivals, including The Sundance Film Festival.[2]
Bobby Yeah was nominated for the 2012 BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation.[3]
Synopsis
A subhuman, rabbit-like creature named Bobby Yeah returns to his dark home with a hairy worm-like pet that he apparently stole. He notices a red button on its body and pushes it, resulting in two polyp creatures attached to metal boxes to spontaneously appear in his room. One of them begins to spew small red sperm seeds onto the floor and Bobby is forced to grab the polyp's long tongue and yank it out, killing it. The worm opens its tail and sucks up all the sperm to produce an egg. The egg hatches to reveal a small hairy creature that Bobby tucks in, only for it to morph into a giant disgusting baby head that kills the worm. The baby head knocks Bobby onto its back where he sees another button and pushes it, sending across a large field in broad daylight towards a metal box house.
Bobby finds himself in a room with pink fur walls where a face on a wall and a small winged baby interrogate him over the theft of the worm. After reluctantly admitting to the deed, as well as the worm's death, the baby produces a second head from its body that spits a button onto the face and Bobby's chest. A small finger scorpion and tall armless, bird-headed creature enter the room to attack Bobby. He manages to kill both of the grunts and the baby before escaping through the hole he came in through.
Bobby returns home exhausted and tired until the giant baby head and surviving polyp, now donned in police bobby helmets, enter the house. A gollywog head bursts through the door and spits out a hooded man, an executioner and a guillotine from its mouth. At the beckoning of the worm, Bobby pushes the button on his chest, produces hairs on his head and transforms into an octopus creature, killing everyone in the room. The face returns to laugh at Bobby's fate, but he uses his tentacles to gouge its eyes out and then pushes the button on his face. Sperm enters through an orifice in Bobby who then gives birth to a deformed being with eyes and tentacles. The offspring caresses Bobby's head before removing it from his body, though he is still alive. He lifts the head up as it floats away through a hole in the ceiling. The offspring waves goodbye as Bobby's head continues to float onward into a purple void.
Characters Featured in the film
- Bobby Yeah
- Crow Dick
- Potato Spider
- Baby Head
- The Spaghetti Worm of Radish
- Tonguely Cummer
- The Box
- Clock Face
- The Finger of Shrimp Car
- Toothy Cummer
- Button Boy
- Fetus Boy
Awards
- Best Animated Short - Fantasia Film Festival , 2011 [4]
- Bronze Audience Award for Best Short Film - Fantasia Film Festival, 2011 [4]
- Best British Film - London Animation Festival, 2011 [5]
- Best Animated Short - Fantaspoa Fantasy Film Festival, 2011 [6]
- Best Horror Film - London Short Film Festival, 2012 [7]
- Special Jury Prize - Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, 2012 [8]
- BAFTA Nomination for Best Animated Short, 2012 [9]
- Special Jury Award - Animafest Zagreb, 2012 [10]
- Grand Prize - Toronto Animated Arts Festival, 2012 [11]
- Best Animation - Tabor Film Festival, 2012 [12]
- Best Animation - New Horizons International Film Festival, 2012 [13]
- Best Animation - Mile High Horror Film Festival, 2012 [14]
- Best Short Animation - Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, 2012 [15]
References
- ↑ "And the winner is… – London International Animation Festival". Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ↑ "BOBBY YEAH | Archives | Sundance Institute". Filmguide.sundance.org. Archived from the original on 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "Nominations Announced for the Orange British Academy Film Award in 2012". www.bafta.org. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- 1 2 Kratina, Al. "Fantasia 2011: Awards Announced | Montreal Gazette". Blogs.montrealgazette.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "And the winner is… – London International Animation Festival". Liaf.org.uk. 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "julho | 2011 | Fantaspoa". Fantaspoa.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "BFI | Sight & Sound | 9th London Short Film Festival: winners and rejects". Old.bfi.org.uk. 2012-01-24. Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand". Clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "Film Awards Winners in 2012 - Film Awards - Film - The BAFTA site". Bafta.org. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "Animafest 2012, Zagreb: winners". Zippyframes.com. 2012-06-03. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "NFB animator Kaj Pindal received an eternity achie | ameliaearharter". Ameliaearharter.wordpress.com. 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "Bobby Yeah". Festivalfocus.org. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ Jakub Królikowski, Przemek Ostaszewski. "13th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival - The winners of the 12. T-Mobile New Horizons IFF revealed". Nowehoryzonty.pl. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ Peter Likarish. "Mile High Horror Film Festival". Milehighhorrorfestival.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ "Accueil: Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival - 17 au 21 octobre 2012". 2012.luff.ch. Archived from the original on 2014-01-08.