Badgered

Badgered is a British short animated film directed by Sharon Colman from the year 2005. The film's title plays with the words badge (English badger ) and to badge ( someone harass ).

Action

A badger tries to keep his building under a hill hibernation. Two crows sitting on the tree, which stands on the hill, and interfere with their crowing his sleep. The Badger crawls out of his burrow and calls the crows to rest, but lasts only briefly. The attempt of the badger, the ears become clogged with leaves, fails.

Suddenly, a van comes to the hill, sawed it through and superimposed three intercontinental ballistic missiles in the hills. Since a rocket tip ends right in the construction of the badger, he covered them with earth and falls while trying to dig a little deeper into the ground, in the missile room. By mistake he activates the rocket that will eventually be fired. The last remains stuck in the roof hill. The Badger returns to its construction and trying to sleep. The crows are loud again. A falling crows spring finally overcame the last, stuck in the hills rocket to explode. It follows silence and the roof falls asleep at last. A final shot shows both crows without feathers and timid crowing; the roof is charred hill in half.

Production

Director, writer and illustrator Coleman studied from 2004 to 2005 at the National Film and Television School and dropped badgered its final film. The production cost of the film amounted to about 6000 pounds sterling.

Badgered made ​​its debut in the series Cinéfondation at the International Film Festival of Cannes 2005.

The animal sounds were eingesprochen by Rupert Degas. The film contains no dialogue.

Awards

Badgered was nominated for the Academy Awards for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but was unable to The Moon and the Son himself: An Imagined Conversation prevail.