Oh great, another Kate Bush short film. 🙄Little Shrew, written and directed by the one and only Kate Bush (yes, THAT Kate Bush), will be gracing cinemas before some WWII flick called From Hilde, With Love. Because, you know, nothing says “wartime drama” like a cartoon shrew. 🤷♀️
So, Little Shrew – apparently a “Best Animation” winner at some festival nobody’s ever heard of 🏆– is about a shrew. A SHREW, people! This shrew is wandering around a bombed-out city looking for “Hope.” Seriously? Hope? In a bombed-out city? Groundbreaking. The shrew, blissfully ignorant (like most of us watching this, probably), bumbles through a “war-torn Land of the Giants.” Sounds thrilling. Then, BAM! 💥 Explosion! Drone attack! The shrew gets stunned but, spoiler alert, keeps looking for Hope. Because that’s totally realistic. 🙄
And the music? Oh, it’s her song Snowflake, from her album 50 Words For Snow. Because who doesn’t love a seven-minute song about snow? ❄️ Especially when it’s paired with a cartoon shrew in a war zone. Makes perfect sense. 👍
She was worried the song would lose something being shortened to a mere three or four minutes. 🕒 But don’t worry, folks! It “held up pretty well.” Phew! 😅
Fascinating Process (NOT!)
The process was “fascinating,” she claims. She got in touch with this illustrator, Jim Kay, thinking he’d be too busy. But surprise! He wasn’t! 🎉 They worked “pretty intensely” for a few months before moving on to “separate projects.” Riveting stuff, I know. 😴
Next up: finding an animation company. She went with Inkubus because a friend recommended them. Gayle and Lorenzo were the “main liaisons” (whatever that means), and they suggested Nicolette as the animator. So much insider info! 🤯
Kate feels “very lucky” to have worked with them all, especially Nicolette, who brought Little Shrew to life with the “tenderness that her character deserved.” Because, you know, shrews are known for their tenderness. ❤️
She concludes that working on this was a “fascinating process” and she loves being creative in both visual and audio mediums. Well, good for you, Kate! 👍
For the “full story” behind Little Shrew, click here. But honestly, who needs more shrew content? 🦡
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
Chord F. Discord: proving that laughter, much like a poorly tuned ukulele, is truly universal.
