Watch: Emotional ‘Baggage’ Check – Amusing Stop-Motion Short Film
by Alex Billington
July 3, 2025
Source: YouTube
Time for a peek inside that baggage. Thanks to our friends over at Short of the Week, here’s a fantastic new animated short to enjoy. Baggage is a 5-min stop-motion animated film from Australian filmmaker Lucy Davidson. After working on Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail in Australia, she was selected to work at the Aardman Animation Studios Academy and create this film as her own personal project. The short is a funny riff of “emotional baggage” and the secrets hidden within each & every one of us. Three girlfriends check in their baggage at the airport, but one is carrying a little more than the others. Can she hide what’s inside? With the voices of Eve Eloise Gilbert, Sophie Schoorman, Dominik Shields, and Camillo Sancisi. This has a very funny Aardman vibe to it, with the characters being so emotive. But it also feels like its own creation sharing the ideas in Lucy’s mind and what she wants us to think about when we’re out in the world.
Thanks to Short of the Week for the tip on this debuting online. Brief intro from YouTube: “Three girlfriends check in their baggage at the airport, but one is carrying a little more than the others. As they travel along the conveyor belt to security, can she hide what’s inside?” Baggage is an animated short film both written & directed by stop-motion animation filmmaker Lucy Davidson from Australia. Watch more of her work on her Vimeo page or visit her official website or follow her on IG @lucy_maree_davidson. She was selected by Aardman Animation Studios Academy to direct this project. It’s produced by Vanessa Batten. With music composed by Sam Harding and Alex Olijnyk. Made at Aardman Academy – based in Bristol, UK. The film premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and SXSW 2025 earlier this year. For more info on the short, visit the film’s official site or also SOTW. To discover more short films (including animation), click here. Thoughts?