Directed & Animated by Joaquin Baldwin
The animation opens in a dark and mysterious cellar, with a voodoo doll hanging from a hook struggling to escape. Just then, a voodoo priest enters the room and grasps the doll, jabbing it with pins, perhaps to inflict pain upon others, but quite possibly just for the sole purpose of wreaking pain upon the doll. Growing tired of the repeated poking, the priest finally coldly drives a needle through the heart of the doll, killing it.
After watching this, two of the other voodoo dolls quickly plan their escapes. The first one manages to break free of its hook and to find protection hiding in the room, but just seconds before the priest could find him. However, the second doll isn’t as lucky. The voodoo priest begins sticking needles into 2nd doll. However, the doll in hiding realizes that stabbing itself through the hand, it brings pain to the priest’s hand; stabbing itself through the leg, it brings the priest to the ground. But these only serve to create short delay to the priest’s repeated attacks and the doll soon realizes that the only way to save its friends, is sticking a needle through its heart to make the self-sacrifice
The film is set within the tradition of voodoo spiritual religions that believe sticking pins in voodoo dolls is a method of cursing an individual. But Sebastian’s Voodoo served as a powerful metaphor about obligations that are set in our family relationships. At this level, the film’s story represents a challenge for us to find in our own natures the capacity to protect others from coming dangers, as well as the critical question of how far we would actually go to save our friends.
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