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A lost soul finds herself aimless after death, until a black dog appears to guide her to her afterlife. It is a dark fantasy film in stop-motion puppet animation, drawing visual inspiration from films like Fantastic Mr. Fox, Peter and the Wolf and Sororelle.
Here’s a few tests I’ve made for the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXlMAq_xRcI
Church Grims are an old folktale based in the belief that the soul of the first person buried in a graveyard would have to remain there to guide all following buried souls to the afterlife. To avoid this falling on the shoulders of a human soul communities would bury an animal first - most often a dog.