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Unflinching narration and lurid, visceral animation guide us through the day in the life of a Butcher on the edge. The film comprises the narration of an obsessive fantasist, who delves endlessly into the butcher's life in an effort to understand his seemingly unfathomable closing time.

The narrator will tell of how the constant exposure to death and gore starts to affect how he sees all human life, and how this contaminates his relationship with his family. On an immediate level, the film explores how our lives are dominated by the environments we work in; how we hide our workplace traumas from loved ones we fear will not understand, and how this poisons the way we relate to the world. On another, the film shows the leering fetishisation of certain workplaces by middle-class professionals and, by the end, it is not so much the butcher's sanity that is in question: but the narrator's, as they continuously delve into their own phantasm.

New Creatives is supported by Arts Council England and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Arts.

Inez Skilling - New Creative Artist
Emma Lazenby – Producer
Geronimo Bennington-Poulter – Writer
Ben Spybey – Animator
Daniel Kirrane – Narrator
Dan Pollard – Composer

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