Projects in categories: Animation

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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?

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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'.

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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.

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Growing up with her four siblings in Indonesia, my mother tells me of the years she spent being cared for by Machi, her caretaker at the time.

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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.

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The Owl and the Pussycat set sail with their few precious possessions on a journey in which they learn nothing and lose everything except each other. This 4 minute film by Mole Hill has been made using an innovative ‘waximation’ technique to mark the 150th anniversary of Edward Lear’s evergreen nonsense poem. BAFTA Film Awards 2021 - Winner - Best British Short Animation

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This hypnotic VR narrative unfolds around 5 characters, increasingly struggling to access their uploaded memories. Set in a breathtaking visual landscape, this dystopian future unravels slowly around you, leaving you challenged to re-think your own beliefs and actions. It’s an exploration of a possible future that says much about our present lives. Imagine a world where there is no air left to breathe, no rivers to race a paper boat on and no parks to roam in. Environmental damage, job-automation, the breakdown of personal connections have led to a future where the best choice of survival is to upload your own memories into an automated AI cloud server and reconnect with loved ones in the vastness of the net. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021

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A short film about sharing.

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An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.

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I wouldn't have made this if I had not heard counter-tenor Hugues Cuénod at Covent Garden Opera House as a child. The film animates images taken mainly from old photographic plates, to pick up the beat and ripple of the soundtrack, overlaid by the voice of Jimmy Somerville with its astonishing range of pitch and timbre.

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During a long hot summer in the forest, Child is forced to grow up. First her Dog becomes ill, then out of the blue her Mother returns with a new lover in tow. Child’s world is turned upside down. A coming of age story, set in an enchanted Russian wilderness.

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Made entirely in Unreal, during lockdown in the UK, in a week in which VE day celebrations collided with Black Lives Matter protests, this film questions the persistence of nostalgia as a form of social control.