Projects in categories: Animation

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The painter, now a filmmaker, talks through the making of a painting, and the making of a video from it years later. The oil on board surface is no longer still but animated with motion paths and filters.

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A visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. 'Sweet Like Lemons' is a play on the saying "when life gives you lemons make lemonade", only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023

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A natural history fantasy film, following the dramatic lifecycle of the wild salmon in human form, with narration by Marianne Faithfull.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Festival 2023 - Official Competition
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 - Labo Competition
BAFTA Film Awards 2024 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation

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Bill and Janet fall in love while their families are at war. Faced with disapproval, they flee to a distant planet and Grandma Smoo and Grandpa Smed must put aside their differences and work together to bring them back home.

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A boy, a mole, a fox and a horse create an unexpected friendship as they travel together in the boy's search for home.
BAFTA Film Awards 2023 - Best British Short Animation - Winner
Academy Awards 2023 - Best Short Film (Animated) - Winner

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Alo, an undocumented overseas Filipino worker, lives in an overcrowded house-share in London. He is struck by a latent neurological problem, which causes a bout of seizures and disrupts his situation in the household. The residents of the house are posed an ultimatum; should they risk Alo’s health or call an ambulance, potentially resulting in his deportation?

World Premiere: BFI London Film Festival 2023
Sundance London 2024

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Music from central Africa is used to modify the size of black and white squares which cover the whole screen and change 25 times each second.

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Set within the fictional smart city of SimBeijing, the CGI animation follows a self-driving car as they discuss their troubles with their built-in therapy program called Guanyin. The video is made within the custom-made virtual world of SimBeijing: an intelligent replica of the Chinese capital built to test self-driving cars. In this fictional scenario, the smart city has turned into a ghost town. Accompanied by CGI drive-through renders of SimBeijing, the narrator of this video is the eponymous ‘Theta’, a self-driving police car who patrols the streets of an uninhabited cityscape. Over the course of their dialogue with Guanyin, Theta reveals the darker reasons behind why the city has been abandoned...
Continuing Lawrence Lek’s ongoing ‘Sinofuturist’ cinematic universe, in which he explores the psychological impact of technology on emerging forms of nonhuman life.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

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As Yuvel Noah stated in a ‘brief history of humankind’ ’ Unlike any other species on the planet, Human beings have created a whole system made up of just imaginary ideas.’ The question is have we used them wisely?

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Architects gaze out across oceans. Away from the land, their intentions grow focused. In the flurry of debate, the cities of the future emerge. A hand-printed film.
Official Selection Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart 2023

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On a prairie millions of miles from home, a grumpy space farmer is having trouble with one of her hive: a robot bee called Buzz that keeps going rogue.
Official Selection Stuttgart Animated Film Festival 2023 - Tricks for Kids Competition

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Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023