Projects in categories: Animation

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A lonely Inuit must endure the endless summer daylight to be reunited with his lost love. BAFTA Film Awards 2025 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation

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In a woodland glade, an exhausted mythical creature is suffering from insomnia. When a small, verbose forest sprite appears and offers a sedative, it sounds like a perfect solution, but the fatigued Wickywock is too impatient to heed the Sprite’s terms. Official Selection Anima - Brussels Animation Film Festival 2025 Official Selection London International Animation Film Festival 2025

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In the brutal chaos of life on the London roads, cars clash, flirt, and fume in this savage reflection of humanity’s impatience and absurdity. Official Selection London International Animation Festival 2025 Official Selection PÖFF Shorts - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025

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It's a beautiful day in the park, until it isn't. The visitors to a peaceful lake soon discover everything isn't as it seems and learn an important lesson.

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There is a photograph of a child left on the moon, a golf ball, flags, a lost glove. When the glamour of space exploration fades, what remains?

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APPLE GATHERERS explores the loneliness and dissatisfaction in a labour-intensive world of two main characters and the brief reprieve they have in moments of real human connection. The moment is fleeting, yet powerful - at the same time, it can be interpreted as the single strand that binds them to their drudgery. Set at the bottom of a hierarchical apple cider factory where every aspect of apple production is meticulously controlled, the Peeler and the Shoveller wrestle with management to hold onto their humanity. Official Selection PÖFF Shorts - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025 Official Selection AFI Fest 2025 Official Selection LIAF - London International Animation Festival 2025

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When an overwhelmed single dad pig moves his piglets into a trailer park, he fears he's failed his family. But soon his kids create a wildly imaginative game, and Dad has a choice between dwell on the past or join them on their adventure. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection LA Shorts International Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation

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Stringed along by frameworks of a hard to grasp outside world a life sized puppet who longs to connect to their own rhythm. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025

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Convention and sexuality are explored through slugs, rituals, and the eating of an orange. Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - International premiere

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An animated exploration of diasporic female identity, inspired by the director’s Bété ancestry in central Ivory Coast. Blending abstract storytelling with rich spiritual iconography, the film delves into feminine cosmology, folklore, and traditional artistry. Featuring copper motifs and intricate relief engravings, DÉDÉ reimagines West African sculptures through animation, bringing mythological deities, fertility carvings, and tribal masks to life in a visually striking journey. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Festival 2025

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After falling in love with a road work sign, a traffic light green man decides to break out of his box and explore the wide world around him to find his admiree. But will his excitement and admiration with the world around him be returned?

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Ampersand, 1978, re-purposes clips from a 1974 film I never completed. In Specto they are re-purposed again. The hot tungsten filament of a Specto film projector is a recurring image, along with re-worked clips of a troupe of actors performing Artaud’s Jet of Blood at locations in the city of Lincoln. You’ll see the cathedral and a dilapidated mill with UNSAFE 74 painted on its wall.