Projects in categories: Animation

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Scenes appropriated from Murnau's Nosferatu with the utterly iconic Max Schreck. Music by Evangelista. Selected to be screened in the Experimenta section of the BFI London Film Festival this October

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Veteran British animator Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) answers the question "What Is Animation?" His answer is by turns witty, iconoclastic and insightful and all the while is acted out by a tiny man in a bowler hat. This hand-drawn film is based upon an interview recorded in 2006.

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Consumed by an insatiable hunger from outer space, a high-flying nobleman unleashes a painful renaissance beyond the wildest dreams of Florence. But can he escape the consequences of the ultimate rebirth? Peoples of the Earth, beware of Duke Cosmico: you are what he eats.

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Pandora’s Box and unrequited love for Louise Brooks.

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In need of love, a misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon.

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'You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won't go, and their own lives quickly unravel as she clings to life. Director Daisy Jacobs uses two-metre-high painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly relative.

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Twin sisters Jo and Alex have been left to run the family hotel but they're too busy fighting to pay attention to their sole guest. Meanwhile, their little sister, Princess, finds herself desperate for attention and will do whatever it takes to get it

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Somebody broke the girl's parents. The rabbit was there when it happened. It was an awful mess.

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A session between a psychiatrist, a schizophrenic patient and his mother. Three directors depict the three characters and their perspectives across three screens. When one person's reality is in a different dimension from the others, can those realities ever meet?

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One Year. One Film. One Second a Day. One second of animation every day for the 365 days of the year 2013. No storyline, script or storyboard. The ideas come from things read, seen or experienced on the day, with a little artistic license for good measure.

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Using an animated collage of found objects from Norwich Castle Museum and the banks of the River Thames the film looks at Boudica the woman, what motivated her to keep her freedom and what her story means to us now that we know so much more from recent archaeology.

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The audio of this RSA short is of Dr Brené Brown who spoke at the RSA on The Power of Vulnerability. She talks about the difference between sympathy and empathy and argues that to be truly empathetic you have to be vulnerable by connecting with someone's pain in yourself.