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Human Contraptions

Year of completion: 2002
Content type: Documentary
Format: Series
Genre: History, Society
Duration: 10 x 5 minute episodes
Production Status: Completed

Academy Award winning animator Bruce Petty takes a satirical look at the 'contraptions' that shape our lives. Education, sex, finance, globalism, art, media, medicine, law, government and even the brain are transformed by Petty into evolving machines. Beginning with a simple concept, he takes us on an anarchic journey through history as each apparatus builds to its complex contemporary form. In the wry, ironic style that is his hallmark, Petty reveals these to be contraptions of a very human kind - imperfect, sometimes unpredictable and always subject to change. A witty, provocative and entertaining series narrated by Andrew Denton.

Completion Year: 2002
Genres: History, Society
Format: Series
Production Status: Completed

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Andrew Denton (narrator), Lee Perry, Sally Patience, Lucie Blinco

Awards

2003 — Australasian Performing Right Association Limited – Best Music - Alan John

2003 — Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films – Highly Commended

2004 — Melbourne Animation Posse – Highly Commended

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2003 — Bilbao International Festival of Documentary & Short Films

2004 — Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films

2003 — "Cartoons on the Bay" International Festival of Television Animation

2003 — Annecy International Animation Film Festival

2003 — Adelaide Film Festival

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Film Australia Limited

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