One Nation Under T.V

‘One Nation Under TV borrows conventions from traditional animation while using contemporary music and animation techniques. Hand coloured and manipulated sequential photographs set to discordant music tell the story of Bob, a hopelessly bored and depressed TV addict who undergoes a series of nonsensical self-destructive acts while glued to the tube. True to cartoon tradition in which characters cannot die, Bob lives on in front of the box despite being burned to a cinder, falling out of a 20 storey building and other usually fatal mishaps. Because the animation technique renders the character closer to reality than say, a mouse, these incidents appear particularly violent and absurd, as do the TV images they are intercut with, to create a claustrophobic and disturbing environment.
The action is closely synchronised with an angry, fast moving musical soundtrack.’ – R.P.