# animate! › Films › Rabbit by Run Wrake › synopses

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, collage animation, hand-drawn animation, digital compositing, greed, lost innocence, nature, dark fairy tale, filmmaker, animator, illustrator

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Archive status: restored in 2026; historical calls, deadlines and services are closed.

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**Rabbit** a film by Run Wrake

2005, 8 min 30 sec

### animate! synopsis

A dreamlike but dark story of lost innocence and the random justice of nature, told with curious images from a distant childhood. When an idol is found in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long?

### one sentence synopsis

A modern mystery film of lost innocence, greed and nature.

### short synopsis

A selection of 1950s educational stickers, discovered in a provincial junkshop twenty years ago, provide the ingredients for this adult fairytale.

When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long?

### long synopsis

A selection of 1950s educational stickers, discovered in a provincial junkshop twenty years ago, provide the ingredients for this adult fairytale.

Once, they were new, delivering a simple message to those also young. Like us, however, they have grown older and now present a more complex meaning.

**Rabbit** tells a tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long?

**Rabbit** film, stills and other materials © Run Wrake 2005