MOVING PARTS | Stop Motion Animation - Horror Short Film

This is BUSINESS, you're the PRODUCT - don't pretend you're something else.

Content warnings: puppet gore, heavy threat, unethical art, Tetanus risk

Spare Flesh presents "Moving Parts", a dark comedy / musical / horror - animated short film. In a surreal, industrial dystopia, a travelling salesman encounters a singing behemoth. This towering, two-headed monstrosity tempts him with a terrifying (but lucrative) proposition.

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A SPARE FLESH PRODUCTION
Directed, Written & Produced by Hugo Docking
Music Composed by Henry Blackaller

The Saleswoman - Eloise Martin
The Artist - Hugo Docking
The Goblin & The Art - Henry Blackaller

Lead Animator - Pip Denning
Lead Puppet Maker - Erin Hilsdon
Puppets & fabrication - Mike Docking, Hugo Docking, Harvey Weaver
Storyboards & Animatics - Conor Mullin
Sound Design, Foley & Colour - Henry Blackaller

Commissioned by Moving Parts Arts

LYRICS:

Aww, a businessman. Let me teach you a thing or two about business.

When the merchandise is sensitive the market values soars,
It’s just simple economics and I hate to be a bore,
but if the profit from that little stash is all your looking for,
Then I think it’s fair to say that you’re no businessman at all.

But I think you have something that's more difficult to source,
Not uncommon but unlikely to obtain without some force.
Now wait right there, my client'll pay us handsomely of course,
And if you fail to hear me out then you’ll be filled with such remorse.

You see I am in the business of moving parts,
And I've a certain vigour for making art.

Buying parts, selling parts,
Shifting parts to make the art -
Precious art, tasteful art, using body parts!
We will never be apart,
Coz we're part of the art,
Sell her parts, he’ll make art, with those body parts!

To make it in this business world you need to sell yourself.
Monetize your very being, turn your assets into wealth.
So sell us all your body parts, don’t worry ‘bout your health.
This is business, you’re the product, don’t pretend you’re something else.

Buying parts, selling parts,
Shifting parts to sell as art,
Valuable, expensive art, made of body parts!
We will never be apart,
Now you're part of the art,
Making art, with your parts, with your body parts!


Copyright: Hugo Docking (2024)