Three minutes of pure steampunk chaos—no dialogue, all silhouette mayhem.
After an airship suffers a mid-air collision, a fellow captain initiates a rescue mission.
Practical Effects
Hand-cut silhouette animation with genuine physical texture.
Direction
Zero dialogue, maximum storytelling through motion alone.
Editing
Rapid-fire cuts that somehow never lose coherence.
Director
Paul Keely
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Keely created all 800+ silhouettes by hand over 14 months, using actual Victorian scissors.
This single short sparked a brief 2010s revival of silhouette animation in indie circles.
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