Dad's Dead is a seven minute award winning film written and directed by Chris Shepherd, commissioned by animate!. Since its first transmission on Channel 4, in 2003, the film has achieved a cult status. Mixing animation with live action in a unique style, it deals with how memory works.
On 27 August 2007, Dad's Dead was released as an extra on the DVD release of Danny Boyle's science fiction film Sunshine.
Ian Hart plays the narrator, an urban st...
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Dad's Dead is a seven minute award winning film written and directed by Chris Shepherd, commissioned by animate!. Since its first transmission on Channel 4, in 2003, the film has achieved a cult status. Mixing animation with live action in a unique style, it deals with how memory works.
On 27 August 2007, Dad's Dead was released as an extra on the DVD release of Danny Boyle's science fiction film Sunshine.
Ian Hart plays the narrator, an urban storyteller who relives his youth in 1970s and 80s Liverpool.
The narrator opens by asking the viewer if they ever think about the people they went to school with. He goes on to talk about his "best mate", Johnno, a popular and rebellious boy at school. However, Johnno turns out to be a thoroughly obnoxious and violent person, frequently swindling, stealing, vandalizing property and generally committing antisocial acts. He apparently enjoys cruelty to animals, throwing hamsters and cats off high-rise flats and bricking ducks. Johnno once...
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