Projects in categories: Animation

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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.

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A young woman, bored at home phones a robot to satisfy her sexual desires. However, as she gets carried away the robot gets more than it bargained for.

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Live action characters venture into a neo-futuristic shopping mall and are then corrupted and distorted by their own desire for consumerism. The animation breaks through the live action shell and reveals savage desires then reconstructs itself - the world is never the same again.

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This programme tracks the demise of three redundant robots as they attempt to re-assert meaning into their empty lives. The film takes a satirical view of this popular television format, combining stop motion animation and computer layering to explore the characters and their emotional dispositions.

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School Disco is about embarrassment. Set in pre-teen school gym, we follow a number of likely lads and lasses as they try out their bogus 'adult' personas for the first time.

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Tim Webb's latest piece is a web of deceit, double meaning, double talk and rejection with fatal outcome. The main players are a businessman, the secretary, the wife and her lover. But whose is the body in the garden?

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Stress Maniacs - psychobabble game show where three real stressed-out contestants compete for a luxury break. Re-birthed into 'suspended animation', they enter the animated world of Cameron Ripple - evangelical relaxation guru and game show host. The show climaxes with the winner reaching Ripple's 'Ranch on High'!