Celebrating 50 years of Aardman, we are delighted to be joined by Aardman co-founder David Sproxton in conversation with Susannah Shaw and guests.

Sledgehammer Revealed documents the making of the groundbreaking stop-motion music video for Peter Gabriel. Including extensive interviews, behind the scenes stories and a fully restored version of the legendary stop-motion video.

David was Director of Photography on Peter Gabriel’s 1986 Sledgehammer pop video and produced and directed the documentary on the making of video “ Sledgehammer Revealed.” David co-produced many of Aardman’s feature films including “Chicken Run”, “Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”, and “Flushed Away”

Susannah Shaw spent several years working at Aardman Animations as a camera assistant on commercials and features, and later set up the Bristol Animation Course at the University of the West of England, with support from Aardman.

David and Susannah will be joined by four of the original team; Nigel Ashton (Editor of Sledgehammer), Dave Riddett (Cinematographer), Sara Mullock (Production Manager at Aardman), Michael Wright (Writer, Producer, Director).

*The film is an hour long, followed by an hour’s conversation and Q&A.