Directed by Sean Grounds

Logline: How hot dogs are made.

Synopsis: A cook in a restaurant receives food without having to grow it and prepares it using tools he didn't make. He serves food to someone who works in an office they didn't build, who works on a computer they didn't program to keep accounts for another company that produces a product they'll never see. For all these two hypothetical people know, the hot dog machine exists.

Distribution Contact: WFG

More Details

RUNTIME: 3 Minutes
GENRE: Experimental, Animation
PRODUCTION FORMAT: Computer Generated
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Ontario
TECHNIQUES: Computer Animation, Visual Effects
KEYWORDS: Food, Weird, Machines

Director's Statement: I started this animation based off a little sketch I had made in a notebook of an intricate series of tubes and alien devices that eventually spat out a hot dog. I liked the idea of over complicating a fairly mundane process to the point of absurdity. The fact that I chose to make it a hot dog machine and not a hamburger machine or shoe machine was just preferential, because the entire world is made up of these tiny religious devotions to making things that most people don't consider the origin of.