Sawdust for Brains and the Key of Wisdom

Jan 1, 1992

0h 10m

★ 0.0

Overview

A colourful yet sinister mix of painting, puppets, and real people. A puppet maker shrinks people, then sends them down a conveyer belt to be married and later used as figures on a wedding cake. Our minds, although not clock-work, are forced to live in manufactured time. If we can stop just for a moment , we will see the magical place outside of time.

Genres

Animation

Fantasy

Production Companies

Channel 4 Television

Shrunken Mortals

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Cast

Svolik the Devil

Andrew Bailey

Young Woman / Sawdust For Brains

Moya Brady

Young Man

Christian Flint

(voice)

Catherine Barrett

(voice)

Martin Head

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