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Clive McFarland Unplugged

October 1st, 2009

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Clive McFarland’s short “Tom’s Fridge” is strange and sentimental. A sweet appliance-based film like this hasn’t come along since The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars…

Where did you study animation/film?

Clive McFarland: I learnt a lot of useful things at Liverpool School of Art & Design. (http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/lsa/graphicarts)

What have you the idea for “Tom’s Fridge”?

CM: I found something encouraging everyone to recycle their fridge if it was over ten years old as it wasn’t energy efficient and was bad for the environment. I wondered if it would be so easy to say goodbye to your fridge if you had lived with it for ten years.

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