Animation
In the world of the Murwoks where nightmares are made, the evil Botch hatches a scheme to make bad dreams real. Only Ralph and Mumford, misfits from the cheery land of Frivoli, can stop him.
Director
With its loose narrative framework embroidered with an evocative and metaphorical montage, Doug Haynes' Common Loss recalls the poetic strain of the avant-garde. The film marshals thousands of individual pictures, each of which is meticulously cut out and painstakingly animated, into an allegory about growing up.
