A young boy living in a cold , damp dark house with his father . His father tells the boy that his mother suffering a long illness has died . Left alone in the grieving process he realises his only friend his dog might be about to suffer the same fate
I quite admire Claymation and everyone involved in the process because it's obviously a painstaking and frustrating effort to bring the technique to screen and to coin a terribly overused cliché it's all a labour of love . This effort entitled DOG by Suzie Templeton is even better than the very high standard we've been treated to and the puppets are so detailed you'll instantly be reminded of the ones in Gerry Anderson shows like JOE 90 but there's one other thing that sets it apart from others in the field and that is while most Claymation shorts have a happy and humorous feel this one is definite bleak house material and tries to drown the audience in gloom and despair
There might be a subtext here involving cultures relationship to dogs . You can put a dog down but not a human hence a dog in many ways is more loved and more important in many ways than a person . I do remember one time at work one time a colleague got the sad news that his dog had died and had to get sent home such was his heartbreak at this sad news . My boss who was Indian came in later and mentioned what he'd heard except that he got it in to his head that workmate's dad had died and I had to explain that in Britain when it comes to dogs we tend to view them in much the same way as Hindus view cows as being more important than humans . Despite all this my sympathies with DOG - as in real life - lie totally with bipeds called homo sapiens rather than four legged mammals . Regardless of Ms Templeton's agenda of manipulating the audience in feeling sorry for the dog or the boy she perhaps succeeds too well in depressing this audience member
I quite admire Claymation and everyone involved in the process because it's obviously a painstaking and frustrating effort to bring the technique to screen and to coin a terribly overused cliché it's all a labour of love . This effort entitled DOG by Suzie Templeton is even better than the very high standard we've been treated to and the puppets are so detailed you'll instantly be reminded of the ones in Gerry Anderson shows like JOE 90 but there's one other thing that sets it apart from others in the field and that is while most Claymation shorts have a happy and humorous feel this one is definite bleak house material and tries to drown the audience in gloom and despair
There might be a subtext here involving cultures relationship to dogs . You can put a dog down but not a human hence a dog in many ways is more loved and more important in many ways than a person . I do remember one time at work one time a colleague got the sad news that his dog had died and had to get sent home such was his heartbreak at this sad news . My boss who was Indian came in later and mentioned what he'd heard except that he got it in to his head that workmate's dad had died and I had to explain that in Britain when it comes to dogs we tend to view them in much the same way as Hindus view cows as being more important than humans . Despite all this my sympathies with DOG - as in real life - lie totally with bipeds called homo sapiens rather than four legged mammals . Regardless of Ms Templeton's agenda of manipulating the audience in feeling sorry for the dog or the boy she perhaps succeeds too well in depressing this audience member