VB/UK, 2006, BetaSP, 80’
V angleškem jeziku./In English language.
režija/directed by: Phil Mulloy
scenarij/screenplay: Phil Mulloy
animacija/animation: Phil Mulloy
kamera/camera: Phil Mulloy
montaža/editing: Phil Mulloy
produkcija in distribucija/production and distribution: Phil Mulloy, Spectre Films
Nagrade/Awards
Ottawa 2006 (nagrada za celovečerni animirani film Mercury Filmworks/Mercury Filmworks Prize For Animated Feature)
The life, loves, trials and tribulations of a typical English family. Why did Mr Christie cut his own penis off? Did Terry really murder the baby? Will Mrs Christie have sex with Hitler? All these questions answered and more...
This 2D Computer black comedy – from animation’s enfant terrible, Phil Mulloy – charts the daily life of a typically psychopathic English family. Mulloy’s minimalist approach features heads silhouetted against disgustingly perky colours and dialogue that delivers a blistering social commentary using computer-voice monotones. The Christies is a series in 12 episodes.
Introduction
Mr Christie is introduced.
Family Values
Terry and Tracey will not get off their knees.
The Language Of Love
It’s summer. Mr and Mrs Christie muse on the meaning of life.
Tracey’s Dream
Mr Christie struggles to escape the darkness. Mrs Christie lies in a puddle of her own blood.
The House Painter
The Christies have their house painted. Buster, the family dog, is in for a horrible shock.
A Song For Buster
Mr Christie believes he has a wonderful singing voice. He likes nothing better than them all having a good old family sing-song.
The Confession
Mrs Christie has done something very wrong. In the quiet of the confessional, she forces herself to speak about it.
Natural Disaster
The second coming in South London.
Mr. Yakamoto
Why is Mr. Yakamoto in the bathroom when Terry takes a bath?
Gary Challenger
Gary Challenger teaches Terry how to sing.
Mr. Christie’s Sex Manual
What Mr. Christie talks about while having sex.
The Day The Earth Moved
What’s that horrible smell just outside Big Ben.
Biography
Born in Wallasey, England, Phil Mulloy began his artistic career studying painting at the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and at the Royal College of Art. He began experimenting with animation in 1998.
Without inhibition, Mulloy attacked conservative sensibilities and criticized the inequality and false benevolence of contemporary lifestyles with drastic, iconoclastic images. Thanks to his love of the absurd and well-developed sense of humour, however, comic relief is never absent in his work.
His very first film Eye of the Storm (1989) is a feisty manifest against existing sexual and social behaviour patterns. The six-part series Cowboys (1991–1992) earned the English eccentric national and international attention. Mulloy takes the western genre one step further, showing male rival instinct and greed escalating in violence. His masterpiece The Sound of Music (1993), a shocking and provoking portrayal of the deep-seated sexual and class-based politics of a random, violent culture established him as the master of grotesque satire. In Ten Commandments (1993–1996), Mulloy pushes the principle further, combining the surreal with the social and revealing God as weak, indifferent and very fallible.
Film Comments
“This black comedy – from animation’s enfant terrible, Phil Mulloy – charts the daily life of a typically psychopathic English family. Mulloy’s minimalist approach features heads silhouetted against disgustingly perky colours and dialogue that delivers a blistering social commentary using computer-voice monotones. A delightfully bitter romp.” Chris Robinson, Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival
“Uncompromisingly experimental approach and anarchistic dialogue and humour, never before seen in an animation feature.” Ottawa International Animation Festival Jury 2007