BLUE BOTTLE
2020 · 7m · UK
Directed by Jenny Wright
Tones: melancholic, whimsical
A hot water bottle, abandoned by those it has comforted, sets out alone to discover independence.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Silent watercolor animation about a hot water bottle learning independence — sweet, BFI-funded, and exactly the kind of polite British whimsy that puts me to sleep. Skill is not the same as nerve.
Wright's silent line-drawing and watercolor animation with a hot water bottle as sole protagonist is a Red Balloon-Quentin Blake gesture done with BFI funding — gentle, formally simple, and likely charming. Seven minutes well-judged.
7-minute silent animation with watercolor and line-drawing style, BFI Network funded — domestic-object protagonist with sound design by Ben Goodall doing all narrative lifting is precisely where craft restraint matters most. Modest views but solid festival list.
Festivals
- BFI London Film Festival 2020