The Pearce Sisters (original) (raw)

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2007 British film

The Pearce Sisters is a 2007 short film created by Aardman Animations.

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Two peculiar sisters live in a house on a windy beach. Their livelihood revolves around fishing, butchering their catch and then smoking it. One day, the big sister sees a man drowning out to sea. They save him from the waves, and shave and dress him while he's unconscious. He wakes up terrified and runs away naked. Later, they find his body on the sand. His face has been disfigured. The sisters butcher and smoke his corpse, like they do with the fish, and add him to a tea party scene they have populated with other dead and smoked bodies.

• Len Gray
• Dan Williamson

Sundance Film Festival review- Cook used computers and hand-drawn animation to tell a somber story in contrast to the cheerful, claymation style of animation that Aardman Animations is known for. He wanted very minimal music and no dialogue to complement the story's austerity. Sound was added in advance of animation, serving as a foundation for the editing. The computer generated animated faces for expressionless characters. After then, the animation was printed out. Each frame's 2D features and emotions were manually sketched in a rough, scratchy way, scanned back into the computer, and then utilized as an overlay for the 3D animation. Generally, colors appeared to have been bleached by the sea.

IMDb review- "Nasty....just nasty...and not in a good way" 5/10 stars

IMDb review- "Grotesque and macabre but somewhat endearing" 8/10 stars

Awards and nominations

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This is a list of awards and nominations of The Pearce Sisters.

• The Pearce Sisters at IMDb
• Cook, Luis, The Pearce Sisters (Animation, Short, Horror), Len Gray, Dan Williamson, Aardman Animations, retrieved 15 November 2023
• "The Pearce Sisters". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 2023-11-15
• "The Pearce Sisters by Luis Cook | Short Film". www.filmsshort.com. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
• Q&A with Luis Cook
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1. ^ Cook, Luis, The Pearce Sisters (Animation, Short, Horror), Len Gray, Dan Williamson, Aardman Animations, retrieved 15 November 2023
2. ^ "The Pearce Sisters". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
3. ^ "The Pearce Sisters by Luis Cook | Short Film". www.filmsshort.com. Retrieved 11 December 2023.