Dream Doll Explained

Dream Doll (Croatian: Lutka snova) is a 1979 British–Yugoslavian animated short film by Bob Godfrey and Zlatko Grgić as a co-production between Zagreb Film and Bob Godfrey Films. The authors shared similar art styles and animation philosophies such as using absurdist gags and disheveled drawings.[1]

Plot

Dream Doll is a film with erotic overtones in which a gentleman falls in love with a sex doll.[2] The short ends with the man "born aloft by the flocks of dolls" as a deliberate parody of Disney's Peter Pan.[3] Dream Doll is cited as one of Godfrey's most prominent works,[4] although it also could be an homage to Albert Lamorisse's The Red Balloon.

Reception

The short was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1980.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Filmski leksikon.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=razMCgAAQBAJ&dq=dream+doll+1979&pg=PT400 Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style – The Three Markets, Giannalberto Bendazzi
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=6wH0CQAAQBAJ&dq=dream+doll+1979&pg=PA99 Animation: The Pocket Essential Guide, By Mark Whitehead
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=tlsKXeRt0wgC&dq=dream+doll+1979&pg=PA26 Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, edited by Peter Childs, Michael Storry