toybox

“Like many of Wrik Mead’s previous films, ‘toybox’ combines creepiness and playfulness in a series of animations that manipulate the most misused toy of all – the penis. Stripped of eros and emotion, Mead’s scenarios of sex-gone-mad play with the absurd qualities of an appendage and a desire that has a mind of its own, and a drive so strong that it leads to self-destruction. Wrik Mead’s animated film plays with his own box of experimental toys, combining all of this talented filmmaker’s previous techniques – pixilation, claymation, stop-motion and cut-outs – in a series of video shorts tied together with new digital sampling experiments drawn from the seedy and sometimes sad world of men’s sexual play.” – Julia Creet