Kate Bush has written and directed a short film, Little Shrew (Snowflake), and you can watch it below. Soundtracked by a new edit of her song “Snowflakes,” from 50 Words for Snow, the four-minute animation depicts a shrew searching for hope in a war-ravaged country. It ends with a request for donations to War Child.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Bush said she is “very keen” to record new music but has not yet started work on it. “I’ve got lots of ideas and I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space,” she said. “It’s been a long time.” Asked about a return to live performance, she joked, “I’m not there yet.”
Bush told the BBC she started work on the film soon after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “I wanted to make a little animation that would feature, originally, a little girl,” she said. “It was really the idea of children caught up in war. I wanted to draw attention to how horrific it is for children. And so I came up with this idea for a storyboard and felt that, actually, people would be more empathetic towards a creature rather than a human. So I came up with the idea of it being a little shrew.” The film was animated by Inkubus for production company Tomato Twist.