Projects in categories: Animation

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Orman is having a fruitless conversation on his mobile phone. He is running back to his office but getting nowhere. If he could just get through to Mr Langley everything will be resolved but someone (or something) is intercepting his calls.
 
The film uses an innovative blend of atmospheric stop-frame animation, live action performance and digital effects to create a dark world of uncertain reality.

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A British student in Japan, Kate struggles to make new friends. Determined to fit in, she programmes her English robot to play Japanese music but the robot has other ideas.

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Banglabandu Primary School brought in the filmmaker Joanna Woodward to make a film on the subject of the legend of George and the Dragon with seven and eight year old children. The combination of the naivety in the children's art and Joanna's skills at telling a tale, has produced a very original film that will make even the most sceptical of viewers aware of the miraculous powers of characterisation that children possess.

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Glasgowland is an interactive narrative exploring identity and the contemporary built environment, combining cultural mythology with the architecture of memory and magical phenomenon.

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A young vaudevillian ventriloquist attempts to charm a drunken audience with his song, Can Herman Sing?

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Isolated from the outside world, all that's left to do is kill time. For some, the only way to make friends is to grow them.

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Set in a public swimming pool, this comical animated film features a timid young woman and her struggle to swim just - one - length.

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Little Ken follows the unlikely exploits of three generations of bank robbers and their relationship with a family of cats.

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Little Voices is a film with children who are displaced and victims of violence in Colombia. This film is driven by real children's stories, and drawings which are animated using computer animation.  The result is a unique and powerful hybrid of documentary and computer animation.

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Lula Fantastic is a stylish tale of a pop princess who lets celebrity go to her head.

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A collaboration with poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan reflecting on his recent trip to Russia - a short visual poem. A combination of studio set photography, animation and motion graphics illuminate this thoughtful meditation on the notions of travel and identity.

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Eadweard Muybridge was born in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1830. He spent much of his working life in America as a pioneer of photography, only returning to his birthplace at the end of his life.
 
Mining for Muybridge is a film portrait inspired by the life and work of this most extraordinary man.