The Cat with Hands
2001 · 4m · UK
Directed by Robert Morgan
An old man tells a young boy the folk tale of a well-dwelling cat that steals human hands, eyes, and body parts in its obsessive desire to become human.
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The scouts
Robert Morgan turned his sister's childhood nightmare into everyone else's problem — four minutes of a cat assembling a human body from stolen parts.
Morgan's nightmare-fairytale hybrid is one of the most quietly perfect British folk-horror shorts of the 2000s — the kind of object Guillermo del Toro keeps in his cabinet. Dreamed by his sister and rendered with Brothers Quay craft; an unsettling miniature.
Robert Morgan's stop-motion/live-action hybrid drawn from his sister's recurring childhood nightmare — folk horror with that exact homemade-dread quality. Page notes the video isn't available on this Vimeo upload, which is a real flag for the vault.
Festivals
- Fantasporto 2002, Onda Curta Award