Run Wrake

Run Wrake is an English filmmaker, animation director, and music video director. He studied graphic design at Chelsea College of Arts before completing a master's degree in animation at the Royal College of Art in London. In this interview for the BBC's Channel 4, he describes some of his films, their inception, and their production. He also comments on technological and cultural developments that have changed how animated films are produced and perceived.

Run Wrake short film from 2001

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?

In the peaceful Halftone City, a mysterious heroine and a brave ally face the ultimate threat. Director: Run Wrake (as John Wrake)

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as J.M. Wrake) graduation film from The Royal College of Art, 1990

Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as J.M. Wrake) graduation film from The Royal College of Art, 1990

Coiling and turning orbs travel through the stratosphere. Birth and transcendence short animation from Run Wrake and Howie B.

In the peaceful Halftone City, a mysterious heroine and a brave ally face the ultimate threat. Director: Run Wrake (as John Wrake)

In the peaceful Halftone City, a mysterious heroine and a brave ally face the ultimate threat. Director: Run Wrake (as John Wrake)

Run Wrake's iconic meathead character - first established in 1994's "Jukebox" bobs his head to PIL through the streets of NYC.

Run Wrake's iconic meathead character - first established in 1994's "Jukebox" bobs his head to PIL through the streets of NYC.

Montage of crazy stream of consciousness imagery from Run Wrake - mixing animation and live action.

Directed and animated by Run Wrake, a one minute illustration of Paul Merton's words on Sudoku commissioned by the BBC for the Radio 4 website.

Montage of crazy stream of consciousness imagery from Run Wrake - mixing animation and live action.

Directed and animated by Run Wrake, a one minute illustration of Paul Merton's words on Sudoku commissioned by the BBC for the Radio 4 website.

Employing a montage of xeroxed images, paintings and sound, Jukebox is a personal journey through fragmented experience.

A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

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?

Run Wrake short film set to a song from collaborator Howie B.

Run Wrake short film from 2001

Produced for the release of the Gasbook 'Dinner Time' DVD, published in Tokyo, 2002.