5 minutes with a legend who turned trash into treasure—literally.
Run Wrake is an English filmmaker, animation director, and music video director. He studied graphic design at Chelsea College of Arts before completing a master's degree in animation at the Royal College of Art in London. In this interview for the BBC's Channel 4, he describes some of his films, their inception, and their production. He also comments on technological and cultural developments that have changed how animated films are produced and perceived.
Direction
Intimate, unhurried portrait of genuine craft.
Practical Effects
Wrake's found-object animation technique explained.
Director
Luke Sewell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wrake's most famous work, 'Rabbit' (2005), was created entirely from decades-old educational sticker sheets he found at a flea market.
This 2007 interview captures Wrake just before the streaming revolution—his concerns about animation's commodification now feel eerily prescient.
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