Kate Bush has written and directed a short animation film called Little Shrew (Snowflake) in collaboration with the charity, War Child.
Just over 4 minutes long, the film depicts a little shrew searching for hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city. The music is a new 2024 radio edit of the track “Snowflake“, which originally appeared on Bush’s 2011 album, 50 Words For Snow.
“I started working on it a couple of years ago, it was not long after the Ukrainian war broke out, and I think it was such a shock for all of us,” Bush explained on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme earlier today [October 25].
“It’s been such a long period of peace we’d all been living through. And I just felt I wanted to make a little animation that would feature, originally, a little girl. It was really the idea of children caught up in war. I wanted to draw attention to how horrific it is for children. And so I came up with this idea for a storyboard and felt that, actually, people would be more empathetic towards a creature rather than a human. So I came up with the idea of it being a little shrew.”
Read more about the making of the film here:
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