The Absence of Eddy Table
2016 · 12m · Norway
Directed by Rune Spaans
Genres: animation, fantasy, horror, romance
Eddy Table gets lost in a dark forest, encounters a girl infected by a mysterious parasite, and despite every reason to flee, stays — a leech-filled love story adapted from Dave Cooper's underground comics, voiced by Mike Patton.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Mike Patton voices a man lost in a parasite-infested forest who decides love is worth the leeches — Norwegian 3D animation went full Dave Cooper and somehow made it romantic.
Spaans translates Dave Cooper's grotesque erotics into Norwegian CG with genuine tactile menace, and Mike Patton's voice is the inspired key. A rare horror short that earns the romance — del Toro adjacent without the sentimentality.
Mike Patton voicing a Dave Cooper underground-comic adaptation as Norwegian 3D animation — the leech-filled romance is exactly as cult as it sounds. Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere; twelve minutes of horror conventions in service of love.
Festivals
- Guanajuato International Film Festival 2017, Best Animated Short Film