Projects in categories: Animation

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One day a humble fisherman catches an enchanted fish. Can the fish help him, and his wife improve their lot? THE FLOUNDER is an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale ‘The Fisherman and his Wife’, with painted animation by Elizabeth Hobbs and an original score by composer Carola Bauckholt.

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Based on the hugely popular web series, following roommates Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck, who live simple and repetitive lives in the complacent technicolour community of Clayhill… until the town’s mayor disappears, and everything descends into utter chaos.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Indie Episodic Shorts Program - World premiere

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Light is interrupted by a strip of old 16mm film seen under a low magnification microscope and is reflected from the surface in rainbow colours. Software simulates the film’s chemical erosion.

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In marketing and the retail sector, data analytics is widely used to profile and micro-target consumers and to predict behaviour. The ultimate goal, apparently, is for humans to be able to outsource all decision-making to machine intelligence. What is at stake within the political realm? 
Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2019 - Winner, ZONTA Award
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Create Strand

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On an everyday train journey quite unlike any other, a not-so-casual observer goes to extreme lengths to avoid other passengers, a giant baby runs away from his parents, a romantic woman starts an ill-fated relationship with a cuckoo, and a naïve boy discovers that some problems can’t be fixed by pictures of unicorns.
Official Selection Animafest Zagreb World Festival of Animated Film 2019 - Student Film Competition

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Highlighting the beauty in today's diverse American families. Sharing a message that any familial variation is okay, as long as it is governed by love.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition

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You've been in a collision. You wake inside the Tardis. The Doctor introduces you to the person, or thing, you collided with. He's a strange and magnificent ball of living energy called Volta.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - VR Works Competition

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After discovering a blueprint on how to construct a robot, a mechanical lizard called Jericho decides to build himself a friend.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Family Strand

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An eye in close-up moves ever nearer to abstraction.

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Traditional Chinese art forms including ink wash painting and ceramics are used to represent and rethink Red China.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Perspectives Short Film Competition

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A stop-motion animated thriller set in a world where deer are the dominant species. An alpha male deer goes for an evening car ride and has an unfortunate accident, triggering a chain of events with dire consequences for the victim.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Cinéfondation - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Cult Strand

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During sleep and cornered by the lack of meaning a reluctant hedgehog creates a puzzle that can't be solved. But even within the dream the hedgehog is neither able to let it go nor to solve it and stubbornly tries to make sense of the absurdity...