Lost Property Office

Window screening of the stop-motion film Lost Property Office.

Edward Hopper is a meticulous and thorough custodian of a large city transit’s lost property office. In many ways, he could be described as just as lost as the items he is tasked to look after. Alone in the basement office, his only company is a tiny toy robot and an old gramophone, both of which he has lovingly restored after finding them lost and broken in train stations. It becomes clear he has been made redundant; not because of a lack of fastidious efforts, it just seems that nobody visits the lost property office much anymore. As the day nears its end and the sun begins to dip, Ed’s mood and demeanour do so as well. Rather than abandon his beloved lost property office with its forgotten relics which he has cared for, he decides to re-appropriate them. What emerges from the darkened basement is wondrous and whimsical.