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| Directed by | Mark Baker |
| Written by | Mark Baker |
| Produced by | Pam Dennis |
| Starring | Annie Griffin, Dave Western, James Baker |
| Edited by | Annie Kocur |
| Music by | Julian Nott |
| Animation by | Christine Anders, Lynne Anderson, Neville Astley, Mark Baker, Sally Baxter, Sharon Boxall, Guy Brockett, Juliet Bunce, Christine Courtney, Caroline Cruikshank Martin Davey, Roxanne Ducharme, Alyson Hamilton, Lynne Holzer, Flora Keen, Sara Kent, Angela Kovacs, Chris Lambrou, Berni Leroy, Vanessa Luther-Smith, Gaston Marzio, Tom Newman, Isabel Radage, Paul Ray, Sandra Roach, Sharon Smith, Rachael Stedman, Paul Stone, Peter Western, Pete Wood, Julia Woolf, Rosemary Young |
Production company | Pizazz Pictures |
| Distributed by | Pizzaz Pictures |
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Running time | 15 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Village, a Vila or a Village is an Oscar-nominated short film by Mark Baker released in 1993[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] in the United Kingdom. The short film was animated with traditional hand drawn animation. The film was directed and written by Baker, produced by Pam Dennis and other actors and crew members,[9] the animation tells the story of an isolated circular village located in the middle of a large forest in Northern Britain. The Church rules over the village as a figure of authority. The people in the village are devout Christians following the church and obeying the village priest, the villagers who are presented as hypocritical "Sinners" most of the time spy on each other by looking out their windows and peeping into one another's houses. The village is filled with distrust which causes many conflicts and tension between everyone. The protagonist of the film is a large bald man wearing glasses, a light grey long sleeved shirt and dark grey pants who is a gardener, in one of the first scenes the man is seen digging soil planting apple trees just outside the village. The rest of the village is seen after with the main focus being about the villagers staring at each other.
The Village was initially made for the British television channel Channel 4,[10] Pizazz Pictures which was the studio where the crew worked in managed the production with Baker serving as director, Pizazz Pictures also distributed the animation. The Village aired on Channel 4 TV station as a "Pizazz Pictures production".
Today The Village is available on YouTube and Baker's website.[1]
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