The stuff of dreams...

The Sandman. A Stop Motion Animated Short Film By Paul Berry.
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1991. Paul died tragically in 2001 of a tumor. He also worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Models and sets by Ian Mackinnon who set up Mackinnon and Saunders in Manchester, UK. They went on to create the models for Corpse Bride.

Paul Berry "The Sandman"
by vibliographer

And this:








I used to have a link to the 1979 version with a soundtrack I liked better...It came in the night by A raincoat.
Here is that song:





RW: Rabbit's Moon is a very directly emotional film.

KA: It's what I call a nocturne, a dream about me. It's about unrequited love and the moon is a symbol, as it has been in romantic literature, of the unattainable. The moon has always been something that's longed for. I use the figures of Commedia: Pierrot, the lost clown; Columbine, the flirt; and Harlequin, who's the devil, the trickster.

RW: Your harlequin is very spiteful.

KA: So he is. The world, to Harlequin, is a comedy. To him, it's uproarious to trick - to trip people up. Harlequin is Lucifer. To look at it from Harlequin's standpoint - which may be the devil's point of view - he's having a good time. In other words, Harlequin has no complexes; his approach to the world is very direct. You can call him cruel, but he is also a survivor and Pierrot the sad sack is not.