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Dark Comedy James Cunningham

Accidents, Blunders and Calamities

A black comedy for kids and parents alike, this festival favourite takes its viewers through a gore-filled alphabet of death as a Father Possum reads a cautionary tale to his two young children.

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Dark Comedy James Cunningham

Accidents, Blunders and Calamities

A black comedy for kids and parents alike, this festival favourite takes its viewers through a gore-filled alphabet of death as a Father Possum reads a cautionary tale to his two young children.
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Accidents, Blunders and Calamities

Dark Comedy about The End in Special FX
Directed By James Cunningham
Produced By Media Design School
Made In New Zealand

Inspired by Edward Gorey’s abecedarian book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Accidents, Blunders and Calamities from James Cunningham and his Media Design School students is a dark, fun/gore-filled 5-min short based around a bleak bedtime story from a father possum.

Screened at SXSW, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand and Comic-Con this FX-driven piece takes its audience on a gruesome tour of 26 of the most brutal deaths ignorant humans could exact upon animals – all portrayed in glorious CGI.

Featuring a total of 30 meticulously-crafted animals Accidents, Blunders and Calamities was written, directed and produced by Media Design School Senior Lecturer James Cunningham and created by a team of 44 third year Bachelor of Art and Design students.

The second film we’ve featured from the New Zealand institution in the last year, following hot-on-the-heels of snail Horror-Comedy Escargore (released around Halloween in 2015), the school’s latest film not only showcases some excellent skills when it comes to blending live-action and CGI, but once again displays the kind of twisted humour we know internet audiences hungrily devour.

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