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Bobby Yeah
Poster
Directed byRobert Morgan
Written byRobert Morgan
Cinematography
Edited byRobert Morgan
Music byZnO
Production
companies
  • Swartz Can Talk
  • blueLight
Distributed byblueLight
Release date
  • July 2011 (2011-07) (LIAF)
Running time
23 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom

Bobby Yeah is a British stop motion adult animated surreal psychological body horror short film written, directed and animated by Robert Morgan. It was made independently and completed in 2011, and later uploaded on Robert's YouTube Channel in HD in 2017.

The film premiered at the London International Animation Festival,[1] and went on to screen at numerous international film festivals, including The Sundance Film Festival.[2]

Bobby Yeah was nominated for the 2012 BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation.[3]

Synopsis[edit]

A subhuman, rabbit-like creature named Bobby Yeah returns to his dark home with a hairy worm-like pet that he apparently stole. He notices a red button on its body and pushes it, resulting in two polyp creatures attached to metal boxes to spontaneously appear in his room. One of them begins to spew small red sperm seeds onto the floor and Bobby is forced to grab the polyp's long tongue and yank it out, killing it. The worm opens its tail and sucks up the sperm to produce an egg. The egg hatches to reveal a small furry larva with a baby face that Bobby rocks and tucks in, only for it to morph into a disgusting giant adult's head with a maggot tail that kills the pet worm. The giant head knocks Bobby onto its back where he sees another button and pushes it, sending them across a large field in broad daylight towards a metal box house.

Bobby finds himself in a room with pink fur walls where a face on a wall and a winged baby with an external heart interrogate him over the theft of the pet worm. After reluctantly admitting to the deed, as well as the worm's death, the baby produces a second head from their heart that spits two globs onto the face and Bobby's chest that each morph into red buttons. At the baby's command, a small finger scorpion and a tall armless, bird-headed being enter the room to attack Bobby, intent on pressing the button fused to his chest. He manages to kill both of the grunts and the baby before escaping the room through a doorway.

Bobby returns to his silent, gloomy home exhausted. After reflecting on and stroking the worm's lifeless body, he lies down beside it to rest, until the giant head and surviving polyp, now donned in police bobby helmets, enter the house. A gollywog head bursts through the floor and screams out a hooded man resembling Death, an executioner, and a guillotine from its mouth. At the beckoning of the worm, Bobby pushes the button on his chest in an attempt to escape punishment, causing him to produce hairs similar to the worm's on his head and transform into an octopus creature, inadvertently killing everyone in the room. The face returns to laugh at Bobby's fate, but he pokes out its eyes with his tentacles, blinding it, and then pushes the button on its face. A couple sperm remaining in the room enter through an orifice in Bobby who then gives birth to a deformed being with eyes and tentacles. The offspring caresses Bobby's head before removing it from his body, though he remains alive. He lifts Bobby's head up and allows it to float away through a hole in the ceiling. The offspring waves goodbye as Bobby's head continues to float onward into a purple void.

Characters Featured in the film[edit]

  • Bobby Yeah
  • Crow Dick
  • Potato Spider
  • Baby Head
  • The Spaghetti Worm of Radish
  • Tonguely Cummer
  • The Box
  • Clock Face
  • The Finger of Shrimp Car
  • Toothy Cummer
  • Button Boy
  • Fetus

Awards[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "And the winner is… – London International Animation Festival". Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  2. ^ "BOBBY YEAH | Archives | Sundance Institute". Filmguide.sundance.org. Archived from the original on 2014-05-25. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  3. ^ "Nominations Announced for the Orange British Academy Film Award in 2012". www.bafta.org. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  4. ^ a b Kratina, Al. "Fantasia 2011: Awards Announced | Montreal Gazette". Blogs.montrealgazette.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  5. ^ "And the winner is… – London International Animation Festival". Liaf.org.uk. 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  6. ^ "julho | 2011 | Fantaspoa". Fantaspoa.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  7. ^ "BFI | Sight & Sound | 9th London Short Film Festival: winners and rejects". Old.bfi.org.uk. 2012-01-24. Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  8. ^ "International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand". Clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  9. ^ "Film Awards Winners in 2012 - Film Awards - Film - The BAFTA site". Bafta.org. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  10. ^ "Animafest 2012, Zagreb: winners". Zippyframes.com. 2012-06-03. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  11. ^ "NFB animator Kaj Pindal received an eternity achie | ameliaearharter". Ameliaearharter.wordpress.com. 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  12. ^ "Bobby Yeah". Festivalfocus.org. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  13. ^ Jakub Królikowski, Przemek Ostaszewski. "13th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival - The winners of the 12. T-Mobile New Horizons IFF revealed". Nowehoryzonty.pl. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  14. ^ Peter Likarish. "Mile High Horror Film Festival". Milehighhorrorfestival.com. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
  15. ^ "Accueil: Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival - 17 au 21 octobre 2012". 2012.luff.ch. Archived from the original on 2014-01-08.

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