Projects in categories: Animation

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Shot in London, Shadow Gene explores characteristics in the human race which contradict its own survival: violence and greed. A beautiful female assassin on a mission to destroy a defective gene in the male species uncovers a corrupt and murky world of corporate power. Raised by a mysterious woman and nurtured into becoming a ruthless hit woman, she targets 'corporate' types who unknowingly carry the notorious 'shadow gene', a parasite gene that compels its hosts to become as violent and greedy as the stock markets demand... without remorse. One day although seemingly accomplishing her mission an encounter with a smug corporate executive sets of a chain of events that shifts the power between victim and perpetrator. Shot largely in London with a minimalist cast and crew on a tiny budget using aging out-of-date 16mm and Super 8 film stocks (some up to 40 years old), Shadow Gene utilises 2D animation, live action, graphic and photographic imagery along with a haunting piano score to tell its story, along the way creating a kaleidoscopic narrative that reveals aspects of corporate greed from the time of the nineteenth century Luddite to the present day 'Occupy London' Movement.

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Animated accounts from six World War Two Holocaust Survivors. Documenting their extraordinary stories of escape as children from Nazi-occupied Europe, and the start of their new lives in Britain. Additional live-action camera interviews see survivors discussing the impact of these events on their lives, highlighting why it is important to still talk about the Holocaust today.

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Mark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.

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"ORWO, is an excellent yet inexpensive 16mm film stock made in Eastern Germany and used by many experimental filmmakers in the past. I scratch off the image surface with a needle then sweep away the emulsion dust beneath the microscope... I used a low powered USB microscope purchased from a LIDL supermarket in West London to capture the image to computer. The deliberately scratched film originates from a 16mm roll used to make image masks for my film 'St.Paul's Cathedral Movie', processed at the London Film-makers' Co-op in 1972." Stuart Pound Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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Fleeing the authorities after selling a batch of dodgy codpieces is SARAH – a small time crook who is now branded a heretic. With her crew of reluctant rebels she begins to build a resistance movement using only their wits and an inexhaustible supply of eagles.

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A ghost actor haunts his screen life, and is haunted by it, to the clicking of a projector. What you see is scraps of film under a microscope, with its sprocket holes, oily colour, and accumulated fluff and dust.

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It's 9:00am on a dreary Monday morning. London is packed with traffic jams, ambling pedestrians and disgruntled taxi drivers. Will Mr Crowe be able to make it to work on time?

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An animation based on a poem about the sea as a lover to the land. The sea can give and it can take away, like an irrepressible force it cannot be tamed. Yet listen and it will yield its secrets...

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A magical chicken enters a forbidden temple to retrieve a magical artifact only to have to fight his way out.

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The fragile balance of a society ruled by individualism is about to collapse with the promise of the crash of an asteroid on the giant distraction machine that the world is.

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A dark tale of Love and Dismemberment. Exploring the many intricacies of love and hate and how the two can be intertwined. Written and directed by Joe Bichard. The film also includes the vocal talents of Matt King (aka Super Hans from 'Peepshow') and immense sound design by Oswald Skillbard.

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Space, forms, colours and sounds symbolise a recognisable world. Do we shape as much as we are shaped?