Modern society is obsessed with social media. Online platforms provide us with a constant unwanted stream of other people’s opinions. What happens when it all gets too much? Cabaret superstars Bourgeois & Maurice offer us a solution in this comedy VR music video.
The journey of life through epic, beautiful environments and meaningful character animation. It shows how we should open our eyes to the good things that happen every day, the experiences we share with people, and that we should find the silver linings in even the lowest times.
A video collage comprising multiple threads loosely anchored around male maritime coming-of-age rites.
Hardeep Pandhal raps to a score composed with Joe Howe as we are dragged through a cartoon world marked by male fears of floods, bordering between the homely and the gratuitous.
With a cross section of society represented by the different breeds of dogs gathered around the pool table, the film follows a conversation woven from real opinions of the British people exploring the notion of British identity in the wake of Brexit.
A hand drawn animated documentary, following the rhythms of a day in Yorkshire. It captures the sound of Yorkshire, from it's multicultural and bustling cities like Bradford and Sheffield, to the delicate sounds of birds in the countryside and the hypnotic rhythm of the motorways and train tracks.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Film Competition
An animation based on images, words and ideas taken from dreams about Donald Trump from people around the world.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Films Perspectives Competition
A short essay film by artist animator, Jessica Ashman. Using animation and recorded interviews of eight other women of colour artists, the film explores navigating the visual art and animation world as a black face in a white space.
With a voiceover that goes back in time, and digitally rendered images of a warm Greek summer, the director transports us to his childhood and remembers his relationship with his grandfather. In trying to recreate his childhood memories the filmmaker creates a moving film about the power of memories and the relationships that have touched us the most.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 - International premiere
“The angry sleeper stalks his dreams/hard from night to night”. Dirk Bouts's 1470 painting of demons carrying sinners off to Hell is the starting point for this not-quite-serious animated nightmare. Pachelbel's famous canon played on a musical box is the accompaniment.
A darkly comic fable in the style of an old magic lantern show with each scene hand-painted as the lantern glass slides would be, with music by Tom Fazzini.
This is a nonsense debate.
When lovers build up a relationship, they fill in every moment with silence, whispers, laughter and screaming.
This is a nonsense debate.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation Films Competition