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OK Mr Bruce is a visual album directed by Tom Oliver. Blending live action, performance, line animation and frame-by-frame painting, the film charts Mr Bruce’s surreal journey through personal and collective grief. Across five chapters, he navigates rituals of loss, memory, anxiety, empathy and acceptance, as he moves through a series of strange, vivid worlds that oscillate between the absurd and the profound. It begins with a meticulous breakfast that unravels into obsession, before shifting into a nocturnal encounter with his father and the spectre of his twin brother. The story expands outward with an animated chapter featuring wisdom from Brian Eno, as they trace a fragile hand-drawn line through a world facing social, political and environmental upheaval. This widening sense of instability reaches a fever pitch when Mr Bruce attempts to protect a collection of flowers from a polycrisis of fire, ice, wind and rain. In the final act, Mr Bruce embarks on a pilgrimage from city to coast carrying a painted portrait of two puffins, an augury that drifts in and out of the film, returning like something half-remembered. As daylight fades on a windswept beach, he sets them alight in an act of mourning, release and love. At once playful, restless and deeply moving, the film transforms grief into creation, moving between the personal and the political, the earthly and the sublime, asking how we continue to care for one another in a world marked by loss. Director Biography - Tom Oliver Tom Oliver is a freelance director crafting socially and environmentally driven films with human stories at their core. Hailing from a background in fine art, his work spans commercials and documentaries for brands, agencies, and charities. Moving audiences through honesty, warmth, and technical craft. Based in London, available worldwide.