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
The animation was made as a result of an artist’s residency at University of Manchester, and the soundtrack is from voice recordings of interviews by medical humanities researchers at the university. The voices describe sudden and profound changes in people’s lives that alter their perceptions and sense of identity. The animation takes us on a journey through the social, psychological and physiological impact of a life-changing event. It is an intimate portrait of a group of individuals.
Urges in the undergrowth, erupting fungal fantasies, bursting botanicals; the dust and desires of a tiny alternative universe.
Imagining sensations of attraction and pleasure in insects, and the seduction methods of the plants and fungi that beckon.
Told entirely using projected animation onto polystyrene film sets, the film follows the story of a mother and her infant child who are forced to leave their home when mysterious, dark shadows envelop the light in which they exist.
Animated feature film about the life and mysterious death of Vincent Van Gogh, recounted through the Post-Impressionist’s paintings and the characters that inhabit them. Featuring over 120 of Van Gogh’s greatest paintings, the plot, drawn from the 800 letters written by the painter himself, leads to the significant people and events in the time leading up to his unexpected death.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand
BARBEQUE is the visceral journey about coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. The film visualises feelings and experiences that might be too difficult or painful to put into words and illustrates the circular process of coping.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation Films Competition - Winner, Cristal Award for Best Graduation Film
What would it be like to realise you're only a figment in someone else's imagination? 'Body World' brushes up against philosophical existentialist horror, smudges the boundaries between the dream world and real life, and inhabits the space where body meets mind.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation Films Competition
