Projects in categories: Animation

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The Dog Who Is a Cat Inside is a special animal. The dog and cat live together in the same body, but this causes conflict. They learn that only by resolving their differences and working together can they find happiness.
 
Commissioned by Ruth Fielding of Lupus Films as part of Channel 4 Television's Animator in Residence scheme.

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The last in the Fish in the Machine trilogy. A yellow puffer fish, caught in a world of mirrors, flickers from colour to high contrast black and white, in syncopation with the percussive rhythms of gamelan music. Suddenly, the video changes tone, incorporating an extract from a television broadcast with rather more political and social consequences for us all.

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Ghost & The Crystal  is a re-working in video clips from a film made by Stuart Pound almost thirty years ago. The new technology and the old examine each other with mock-cinematic effects of colour, contrast and movement. The soundtrack is contemporary music played on a traditional instrument of popular entertainment, the hurdy-gurdy.

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Phoebe has never lived without TV. One day, she turns him off.

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All is not right underground. The tube is in chaos yet no one knows why. What's more the mice are disappearing. Who is the dark figure taking a fervent interest in both? Meanwhile deep below something is trembling.

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A multi-media video, that explores the twilit world of pathways, journeys and life choices we encounter as we move from cradle to grave. In an ebb and flow of moods and weathers, the film creates a metaphor for the journey through life where at the end people clamber up a pencil scribble of a staircase into a universe of hand-painted and crayoned stars and moons.

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Living in a desert, a man believes himself content.

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Commissioned as part of the 2003 S4C Short Shorts strand, Griffilms' short, A Frog's Life, takes a humourous look at the life of a frog from birth to adulthood.

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Anna Spud is not a happy little girl.

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An animated journey though the different stages of energy production and consumption. The film offers a closer look at the world of electricity, bringing annotated diagrams to life and highlighting the complex way in which we relate to and learn from our environment.
 

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What do babies see when they dream? An animated exploration of the mind of the director's sleeping three month old boy. Watch out for those bunnies.

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Bonny plants a sunflower. With the help of her dog 'Banana' and 'Mo' the bird, she learns that what goes up must come down and sometimes vice versa.