Projects in categories: Animation

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Haircut is a short story about a curious little girl called Emily and a ‘really weird’ hairdresser, Harold. When a new hairdresser’s opens in town, Emily knows that something is not quite right but no one believes her - and then her vain mother decides that it is time for a new haircut.

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Intimate Game is a stop-frame animation short depicting a narrow and suffocating life routine between a mother and her daughter living together in the same house. This relation engenders severe consequences.

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Laitue is a hand drawn film, tracing a brief journey from loss to a reunion of an unexpected kind. Two people are separated by time and space but nevertheless coincide in a series of movements which form a choreography of anticipation and unrest.

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A 5 year old Scottish boy talks to his father about how a group of little dinosaurs can stop a big dinosaur from picking on them.

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A magical tale of loneliness and friendship based on the award-winning book by Oliver Jeffers. One day a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep and decides to take it home even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!

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A perplexed fisherman becomes united with a fragment of estranged matter.

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Momster is a dark fairytale about a young girl entrapped within a council skyscraper. Her only escape comes from her larger than life imaginary friend, whom Emily creates from her deceased mothers loving sketch book. Tackling gritty social issues with a beautifully original style and concept, Momster takes the audience on a mini rollercoaster of emotions

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A past, present, future glimpse into man's relationship with oil and his insatiable greed for more, man never knows when to stop.

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Nostalgic journey through coloured silhouettes.

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Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.

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In the heart of the city, behind green metal fences, the cycle of growth carries on regardless.

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Round highlights Man's position as a brief chapter in the Earth's long story and reminds us that nature will always have the upper hand.