A story of independence, about a hot water bottle who gets left out in the cold. Directed and animated by Jenny Wright, it is a silent animation, exploring the nature and values of relationships, comfort, support and abandonment, told through an evocative line drawing and watercolour style.
The animation combines hand drawings inspired by bio-medical imagery with creative coding, which animates drawings in response to the soundtrack data. Coding and data seemed particularly relevant for the subject matter of the pandemic, because we use data and algorithms to model and predict future outbreaks.
A daughter tries to mend her fractured relationship with her father but his attitudes create more complications than she had expected. An intriguing mix of stop-motion animation and interviews reveal a family’s mythology and complex family dynamics.
Official Selection Hot Docs Festival 2021 - World premiere
Encounters Film Festival 2021 - UK Student Award - winner
Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021
BAFTA Film Awards 2021 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation
Set and filmed at the Royal Pavilion Brighton, this artist film is a postcolonial response to chinoiserie. Historical individuals from Taiwan, China and Britain question, fail to understand, argue and disagree with each other over the representation of Chineseness in chinoiserie in-situ.
Bibi is plagued by memories of the past, and her granddaughter Simran is starting to notice. In resolving to teach Simran how to make Cha, they are pulled into the past, to Bibi's memories of one fateful day in Delhi, 1984.
John likes routine. He comes back home one day to find his wife gone. He pretends that she still lives with him and over time, settles into this new life. Will anyone find out that his wife has left him? How long will he continue the charade?
An animated short about charting the unknown within our own minds, human fragility and high tech surgery, longing for home, and fishing. WHITE OUT is made through drawing and animating handprinted photograms, incorporating nautical charts, digital drawing and plates from the 'Schaltenbrandt Atlas for Stereotaxy'.
CURSE OF THE BLACK SHUCK is based on a British folklore legend which originated in East Anglia. It's a mysterious black dog that brings bad luck to everyone who encounters him and causes death and destruction.
A visual approximation surrounding the learning or relearning of sight through bionic implants. As we view diffuse abstracted visuals, based on real footage, the soundtrack reveals that we’re sharing the experience of someone in a fictional medical experiment.
