Projects in categories: Animation

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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.

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Struggling to make it in a big city, a young artist finds herself retreating into the rose-tinted memories of the village she left behind.

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Someone who we never see – a 'nobody' – tries to tend to their plants, but persistent inner voices draw them into an alienating place with the promise of communication through pure thought. Where are we in this vision? Are we an observer of this experience, or experiencing it ourselves? Where is the division between us?
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Festival 2022

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In a world comprised of merged couples, Ren goes on a heroic quest to find an other half in hopes of becoming complete.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2021 - Cinéfondation Selection

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Nobody drowned. A poem about the 1910 Paris flood, with photographs of Paris and Parisians taken at the time.

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A hand-drawn sequential telling of human history in all its horror and glory, culminating in our next evolutionary leap. CUTIES explores the elusive beauty in how we as a species continue forward in spite of our proclivity for destruction.

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A crisp-loving couch potato finds himself on a journey of accidental enlightenment when his favourite flavour of salty crisps runs out.

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It’s 2am in a sad coach station like any other.
A collection of tired and lonely travellers are waiting for the last coach. Somehow, in that cold and depressing place, the resident pigeons manage to create a magical connection between them for a beautiful instant.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022
BAFTA Film Awards 2022 - Best British Short Animation - Winner