Like many of Wrik Mead's previous films, toybox combines creepiness and playfulness in a series of animations that manipulate the most misused toy of all--the penis. Stripped of eros and emotion, Mead's scenarios of sex gone mad play with the absurd qualities of an appendage and a desire that has a mind of its own and a drive so strong that it leads to self-destruction. Wrik Mead's twenty second animated film plays with his own box of experiemntal toys, combining all of this talented filmmaker's previous techniques--pixilation, claymation, stop-motion and cut-outs --in a series of video shorts tied together with new digital sampling experiments drawn from the seedy and sometimes sad world of men's sexual play. --Julia Creet 2007
HD, stereo, colour, 10 minutes, 2007