rabbit: A Short Film by Run Wrake




[YouTube Link] A surreal short film by Run Wrake presenting an allegory about human greed.  Artistically, the film is modeled after early 20th Century children’s early readers.  8 minutes, 20 seconds long.


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Posted on January 23, 2008 at 8:49 am by John
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11 comments to "rabbit: A Short Film by Run Wrake"

  • Rosi
    January 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    That’s just really creepy and weird. And quite worrying, considering the main characters are children. I understand the greed thing, but its still really strange.

  • nobody
    January 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    Oooh I liked the style and subject of this. pretty neat.

    For some reason it reminded me of an old Aeon Flux (the cartoon)episode. In the episode a Deity arrives and can change things to be more transcendent (guess thats the word I’m thinking of). It changes a bird into a “enlightened” version (prettier, glowing etc), and a bullet into gems.

  • John
    January 23rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    The use of children, I think, presented an Augustinian view of Original Sin — that even children are born not innocent, but totally depraved.

    If I had a projector at my church, I’d use it as a sermon illustration.

  • Gerry
    January 23rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Allegory or animators with latent pre-serialkiller tendencies???

    Typical of the attitude of the Internet generation unfortunately….. perhaps they should consider some therapy.

  • bazik
    January 23rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    i was disappointed.. specially with the conclusion.. they wasted a idea with pontencial

  • VonSkippy
    January 23rd, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    I like my moral allegories to come in under a minute 30.

  • Edward
    January 23rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    I have seen this before and consider it to be one of the gems of the Internet. A childish view of greed and its consequences. While I am tempted to over analyze, a piece of art such as this can stand or fall on its own.

  • person
    January 23rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    Let me explain this for the people who don’t get it:

    The girl sees a pretty rabbit, and thinks it would make a nice muff. So she, with the help of her friend (or brother, not sure). When they kill it by cutting it open, flies and a satan-like dude some out. As a reward for their evil-doing he zaps the flies into jewels. Then he goes into the kitchen and finds some jam. He likes jam, and zaps some more flies into jewels. The next part I don’t q

  • Nacks
    January 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    I’ve seen this video before on a couple of different sites and I’m pretty sure the actual title is Rabbits and the Idol. Might want to check into that one…

  • Alex
    January 24th, 2008 at 3:38 am

    The kids got the right idea, they just ran into some logistics problem (and who hasn’t run into those?)

    A fantastic concept though - overall, a very neat film.

  • John
    January 24th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    According to Run Wrake’s website, the film is called “Rabbit”.


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