Escargore

The kitchen might seem an ordinary place to most, but if you’re a snail like the ones in this short film, untold horrors await. When five snails accidentally find themselves in a salad, they must embark on a great escape, and race — as quick as is realistically possible — toward the relative safety of the outside world. Fate, it seems, has other plans. Escargore features the work of 22 third-year students at Auckland’s Media Design School, and was directed and co-written by lecturer Oliver Hilbert. The short won Best Character at the 2015 Animago Awards in Germany.

Sacré bleu, not again!

– Claude, on discovering their new location

Key Cast & Crew

Aleksander Sakowski

Cinematographer

Oliver Hilbert

Writer, Director, Producer, Editor

Karl Wills

Writer

James Cunningham

Producer

Greg Johnson

As: Voices of Corky and Sheldon

Jodie Rimmer

As: Voice of Shelly