Projects

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Using experimental animation to explore migration that triggered 400 years of emigration from Britain between 1620-2020 - a single footprint rapidly escalates into patterns of human travel in the form of ‘abstract lines’ within the natural world to evoke meaning; suggesting epic voyages and connected narratives over long histories. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2021 - Research in Film Awards for Best Animated Film of the Year (RIFA) - Winner British Animation Awards (BAA) 2022 – Wild Card Category- Winner

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'I invite you into the world of my weekly planner.' Premiere at the 19th (2022) IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival

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Two lifelong friends on a remote Irish island find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship with alarming consequences for both of them. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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Three stop-frame animations made on the floor of my London flat using water, cardboard and home-made slime. Watermeadow, bog-eye & mudflats were made over a long period of time. The project was pulled together during successive pandemic lock-downs whilst imagining wide open marshland, swamps and mires of different kinds.

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A BANQUET is the much anticipated feature debut from Ruth Paxton. A visually arresting slowburning psychological horror that uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family possessed by a daughter's illness when she stops eating, exploiting the strains and the love between three generations of mothers and daughters. Widowed mother Holly (Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat, but loses no weight. In an agonising dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Discovery - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult

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A SPELL FOR WORNINGTON GREEN was shot on Wornington Green Estate in North Kensington and told from the perspective of estate resident, Natasha Langridge. It follows the hatching and flight of pigeons and the subsequent community protest to prevent the felling of 35 trees as a consequence of urban regeneration.

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An ugly moment in a Berlin bar knocks Yasmina from her usual path and launches us into a series of encounters in a precarious world, beyond the neon and the billboards. Inspired by Schnitzler’s 19th century play, Reigen (La Ronde), ATOMEN careers through the everyday lives and dilemmas of our characters, laying bare the alienation and disenfranchisement, and at the same time the longing for love and connection, even if the pursuit of this almost always fails….. In this world, this world of late capitalism, where faith is lost, and truth is lost, and all are told to only care for themselves, how do people root themselves, find meaning, find enough hope to make life worth living – a life, as Freud said, of ordinary unhappiness, rather than extraordinary alienation?

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Set in a familiar near-future, a young couple with Down’s syndrome must overcome prejudice and danger, in order to try and save the AI baby they want to adopt. The film exposes the disposability of disability.

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Another Christmas at Small Birds Singing and another disappointment for Spandisman. Join the fun with the Unbelievable family, Consommé, Delphinium and Hurtle as Spandy tries to make next Yuletide the best one ever!

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A surreal short animation film about Thomas, a boy who becomes addicted to eating ants – despite the warnings of his parents. Narrated in verse, the work playfully explores themes such as childhood rebellion and addiction. Official Selection Hiroshima Animation Season 2022

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A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2021 - World premiere Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2021 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Documentary Competition

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A caustic online streamer’s anarchic behaviour triggers a non-stop nightmare. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Midnight Madness - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult