Projects in categories: Animation

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A mother follows Death through a hostile winter landscape to win back her child, giving up her eyes and her hair on the way. Ruth Lingford's woodcut-like animation, drawn on an Amiga home computer, adapts Hans Christian Andersen's The Story of a Mother.

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Watch out: if you insist on saying "I'm not a Feminist, but...", then you may well find yourself pushing the old man over the edge or behind the sofa, as the case may be. Adapted from the cartoons and drawings of Christine Roche.

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The big issues addressed in an abstract animation ripe with optically manipulated hand-painted film. Employing the associative logic of dream it creates a dazzling reverie of colour and pattern.

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An animated documentary based on the true story of Josie O'Dwyer, with her own voice as personal commentary. The film shows the devastating effect that detention and imprisonment have on young girls who are sent in "for their own protection". Part of Blind Justice (broadcast as In Justice), a four-part Channel 4 series on women and the law.

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A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do. Who knows where the families go?

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Man hands on misery to man. Father and son resist the stereotypes of their race and gender in this personal/historical survey of bias and prejudice. Montage and masculinity meet in an analysis of the black experience.

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The disjointed debris of our childhood state still lurking within our adult consciousness act as a painful, disruptive force. A ghost-like little girl keeps tapping on a woman's consciousness, demanding attention, recalling a traumatic childhood event and thus distorting her experience of the present.

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A dazzling expression of the visual music revealed by 365 setting suns. Over 4500 time-lapse drawings were painted directly onto a continuous strip of 35mm film using a variety of materials such as nail varnish, hair, bleach, net stocking and magnolia petals. Arts Council England and Channel 4 Animate Award.

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Politics and pleasure in the court of King Louis. A Baroque rave where Versailles meets Video. Computer animation for the cognoscenti.

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From a poem by Peter Reading, symbol and sadism meet live-action and stop-motion in this tale of rejection and its aftermath. There’s even a credit for ‘hair knotting on heart‘.

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The found sounds of newstime as the domestic meets disaster and survives. Collage craziness in this abstract exploration of the perils and pleasures of being and staying alive.

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Strangers on a train, points on a journey through the ‘accepted nature of things‘. Fast talking animation scratches the surface of our familiarity as we question the answers we’ve been offered.