The Ballad of Holland Island House

Directed by Lynn Tomlinson · 2015

The last house standing on a sinking island in the Chesapeake Bay tells its own story in song, as the water slowly claims everything around it.

Mesmerising clay-painted animation gives a voice to a real house disappearing beneath rising seas.

The Ballad of Holland Island House is a short animation made with an innovative clay-painting technique in which a thin layer of oil-based clay comes to vibrant life frame by frame. Animator Lynn Tomlinson tells the true

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