Projects in categories: Animation

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A surreal short animation film about Thomas, a boy who becomes addicted to eating ants – despite the warnings of his parents.
Narrated in verse, the work playfully explores themes such as childhood rebellion and addiction.
Official Selection Hiroshima Animation Season 2022

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At the height of Europe’s spring Covid wave in 2021, the filmmaker Lucy Darwin offered to drive the actor and national treasure Miriam Margolyes from her home in Italy to London so that she could film the latest series of Call The Midwife.

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Five short films exploring stories from Holodomor Ukraine 1932–1933.

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THE LAST WORKER is a narrative adventure centred around our struggle in an increasingly automated and dehumanizing world.

In this world premiere first chapter, we experience a brutal power fantasy, dive into Kurt's past and meet his broken co-bot, Skew, as their old work routine is about to be disrupted forever.

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Weeds aren't just weeds. They're like friends. During the first Covid-19 wave, plants and flowers are allowed to grow wild.

Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021 - Shortcuts World premiere
Official Selection Dinard Festival of British Film 2021
Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2021 - International Shorts
Official Selection Thomas Edison Film Festival 2022
Official Selection Aspen Shortsfest 2022

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The world began with the Big Bang, we are told the walls of Jericho were decimated by trumpets, to music being used as torture or control, to persuade or even calm, to the soundtracks to war and music for revolutions. What is music and sound's relationship to control and power?

We have channeled this question through candid conversations with neural networks, by training machines on a collected sonic and visual history of noise, metal and rock music, as well as music that is sacred and spiritual. The project explores ideas around music as a weapon, as a cultural shifter, manipulator, unifier and ultimately, as a force.

The result is a non-stop fictional band performing endlessly, 24 hours a day. As the music infinitely changes, unique combinations of sound and visual will never be repeated. We have collaborated with AI music pioneers, Dadabots, combining machine learning, audio-responsive assets & procedural visuals inside VRChat to create a fully immersive real-time interactive environment. We are sonically at the mercy of the machine, as one never knows what will be performed on arrival.

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A young girl's love for a tiny puppy named Clifford makes the dog grow to an enormous size.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Gala Presentations

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FREEDOM SWIMMER documents a mass migration story from the 20th century, which is relatively untold in the Western world— and offers context for a city in turmoil, today.
A granddaughter asks her grandfather to recount his journey from China, swimming to Hong Kong in the 1970’s.
One of two million mainland residents who swam across the southern sea border. Many others died trying or were captured and sent to labour camps. He was one of the lucky ones.
From the 1950’s to 1980’s Hong Kong was a symbol of freedom to many Chinese, glimpsed across the water. The grandfather, like many others, went on to have a successful life in Hong Kong and was part of the working-class movement that helped transform the city into a financial success story.
FREEDOM SWIMMER explores the effect of past cultural trauma, exploring a new perspective on the current situation. It reflects the depth of a symbol that is ‘freedom’ - that Hong Kong both represents and holds onto so tightly.
On a wider-scale, this is a universal story of the dispossessed— what it takes to flee your country, what it means to fight for freedom, what it is like to leave everything in hope of liberty.

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A young child finds magic and adventure when searching for a mysterious gyroscope in his grandparents' home.

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Based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King. Combining elements of psychological horror and romance, main character Lisey (depicted as a puppet) is pulled between worlds of imagination, reality and fantasy as metaphors communicate the character’s emotional and psychological states.
Silver Clio Award 2021 - Winner
Emmy Awards 2022 - Nomination - Outstanding Main Title Design

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Clips from two Italian films of the early 1960's meet on a train platform in Rome. Together they move towards, but don’t quite arrive at, another story, as the processing makes animation of what began as live action. To the sound of Wagner and Rossini.

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ANYWHERE BUT HERE is a metacommentary film about wanting to go places and see new faces, but being prevented from doing so by the pandemic. The narrator unravels a bittersweet resolution in the self-reflexive filmmaking process as we dive deeper into her dreamscape.