Projects in categories: Animation

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This collaborative film is based on a short poem The Lines by Andrew Motion. Animated text in the landscape and electro acoustic sound interact to interpret and experiment with meanings contained in the poem.

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This is the tale of Vinny Gusto, a teenage lard ass, cookie addict. Soon realising he is a disgrace to his family, we follow his bulging butt on his quest to turn fat boy into fat fame.

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Based on an old German students' song from Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot', the film is about a poor starving dog who decides to venture into the kitchen in search of some nourishment. However, the kitchen is a dangerous place, and he finds more than he bargained for.

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Kaleidoscopics brings together pornographic stills from the internet and bubbles at the edge of running water, putting both through the same digital processes. Eyes, faces and limbs surface and sink again in sequences of coloured tessellations, lead by a music soundtrack that overlays breathy sound with formal patterning.

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'For You' is an adaptation of Jacques Prevert's poem For You My Love. The changing faces of love are shown through the desperate attempts of an over-possessive man to capture his beloved forever.

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A philosopher and his granddaughter are discussing existentialism. Meanwhile we follow the philosophers' dog whose existence raises existential doubts to the philosophy as well as to the film itself.

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Diana Payne Myers' engaging personality and varied career in dance spring to life from the pages of her wonderfully eccentric scrapbook.

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Set in a Friday night disco, Ray and Dave compete on the dance floor for the attention of the beautiful Imogen. A humorous look at the eternal love triangle.

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Hovering in mood somewhere between M Hulot's Holiday and The Exorcist this eccentric film does not attempt to narrate a dream, though it exploits the same kind of mechanisms that dreams utilise. Hold on to your hats.

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A woman alone in a room repeatedly writes a letter with tiny broken off pieces of pencil lead. Outside her window, vistas of ever changing light register her every emotion. Awards: Special Jury Mention, Montreal FCMM 2000; Golden Dove Award, Leipzig, 2000; Special Jury Award, Tampere, 2000; Special Mention, Golden Prague Awards 2001; Honorary Diploma Award Cracow 2001; Best Animated Short Film, 50th Melbourne International Film Festival 2001.

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A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments seen under a magnifying glass can quickly confirm the existence of another world. In dimensions that fall between those of bacteria and the smallest of animals there exists a realm of life so diverse that you have to sit and wonder.

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A nervous, late-night rail traveller, waiting on a near deserted platform for the last train, is overcome by his own paranoid fantasies, as the station transforms into a hostile jungle and his fellow travellers become animals.