# animate! › Films › Careful by Damian Gascoigne › synopses

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, hand-drawn animation, 3d cgi, live action and animation, digital compositing, parental anxiety, childhood, independence, narrative short, filmmaker, illustrator, animation director

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**Careful** a film by Damian Gascoigne

2005, 6 min 07 sec

### animate! synopsis

A series of inter-cut visual postcards, snapshots of ordinary family situations. Caring, anxious but distracted parents are teaching their children to be safe. However they are in a battle with Fate to avoid disasters – and dry cleaning bills.

### one sentence synopsis

A 7-year-old girl’s accidental adventure in a surreal landscape.

### short synopsis

A 7-year-old girl escapes the attentions of her over protective mother and flies off on an accidental adventure through a surreal landscape.

### long synopsis

A story about a 7-year old girl sent on a mission to post a letter by her over-protective mother. Accidentally forced off course, the girl finds herself in a surreal landscape, full of foreboding suspended objects. She explores this strange world for herself until her mother’s anxiety stirs the landscape into dangerous life.

**Careful** combines rough, immediate drawings in digital space, creating a visual interplay between what is flat and what is not.

**Careful** film, stills and other materials © Damian Gascoigne 2005