Im glad i know that now, thank you: kissing
2026 · 5m · UK
Directed by Blink Industries Limited
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal, tender
A surrealist animated how-to guide about kissing narrated by Joe Lycett in the visual language of Chris (Simpsons artist).
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A how-to guide for kissing animated in a style that looks like it was drawn by someone who has never seen a human face — and yet it lands emotionally.
Adapting Chris (Simpsons artist)'s deliberately malformed internet drawing aesthetic into full motion animation with Joe Lycett narrating is a properly considered translation — the deliberately-wrong drawing made into a vehicle for sincere instruction is the entire gag and it works. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is the right lineage.
Joe Lycett narrating a Chris (Simpsons artist)-coded surrealist how-to on kissing for Blink Industries — full motion animation of intentionally malformed drawing is a real craft puzzle. The deliberate wrongness is the technique.