Martin | Apocalyptic Animated Short Film

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A man unwittingly unleashes armageddon in Cromer, Gem of the Norfolk coast… A selection of Short of the Week, the web's leading curators of quality short films. SUBMIT A FILM: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/submit/ FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2017/06/16/martin/ Subscribe to S/W on YouTube! Website: http://www.shortoftheweek.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ShortoftheWeek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shortoftheweek Twitter: https://twitter.com/shortoftheweek http://www.crowmotion.com/work/martin/ "Welcome to the end of the world. Destination: Cromer, a small seaside town in the UK. In Sholto Crow’s imaginative 4-minute short, simply titled Martin, what starts as a picture-perfect depiction of coastal life in England soon becomes something much more sinister as our hapless protagonist discovers more than he bargained for with his metal detector. Creating his film as somewhat of a love-letter to the town he moved to at age 13, Crow admits that “even though Cromer gets destroyed in the film, it’s a place which means a lot to me and I wanted to show it in a light it isn’t normally cast in”. And he certainly succeeded. We’ve seen a lot of imaginative locations used as ground zero for the apocalypse, but after watching Martin, I don’t think I’ll ever view UK beaches the same (the worst I ever imagined them hiding was a used condom and the odd dog poo). And whilst Crow’s inspired premise for Martin is certainly one of the main talking points of hi

Published 2022-05-19 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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