Project Detail

Minema Cinema

Name: Minema Cinema
Director: Tim Hope
Genre: Experimental
Released: 2004
Duration: 21 min 30 sec

A cartoon speaker cabinet with eyes and legs standing in a desert

Synopsis

A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s 52nd Street Project and London’s Scene & Heard theatre groups, the film is voiced by professional adult actors and directed to render the children’s dramatic intentions as sincerely as possible. Three short films within one film: Revenge Is Cold – Woody the box of matches dreams of becoming a lighter. In the Mexican desert he encounters Antus, an untrustworthy cactus, who claims he can help him fufil his ambitions. Together they journey to ‘The Land of the Freeze’ – the North Pole – where a surprise is in store for both of them. Love Then First Fight – Bob Brakinlot the crowbar is a reformed criminal, determined to give himself a second chance. Into his world bursts Blossom Shritz, a shirt whose life has been torn apart. Desperate for acceptance and affection, they seem to offer each other “a chance to be average in a nasty world“. But can they both put the past behind them? Keep Going – A young egg, Stuart, escapes from his fridge in Scotland on a mission to meet his hero, Michael Jackson.

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Details

Year: 2004
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 21 min 30 sec
Format: DigiBeta
Director: Tim Hope
Producer: Kai Simmons
Executive Producer: Russell Maclean
Editor: Chris Barwell
Screenwriter: Kevin Pinto, Thomas Gwyther, Acai Duang Arop
Sound: Tom Russell
Composer: Adelphoi Music, Antony Brown, Oliver Davis
Other Lead Creative(s): Tim Hope, Tim Sanpher, Tom Stanton, Matt Everitt, Naz Khajenouri
Title of original material: workshops devised at Scene & Heard with
Author: Kate Coleman and Sophie Boyack, Oliver Senton, Roger May, Jessica Radcliffe, Dan Copeland
Live-action: Sue Green
Graphics: Peter Richardson
Audio facility: We Write Music
Production company: Cloth Productions / Passion Pictures
Funding: an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Finetake Productions (animate!)

Contact: Finetake

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A SEASON IN SECRET brings together material both close at hand and far away. It is a meditation on things glimpsed at a distance and the limits of perception. What lies behind the screen is hidden and may only be hinted at through the language of visible images and sounds. The film takes some of its cues from the Japanese aesthetic concept of Yūgen, described in part by the 15th-century aesthetician Zeami Motokiyo: “...to stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands.”

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