Projects in categories: Animation

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More than 3,000 insects appear in this film each for a single frame. As the colours glow and change across their bodies and wings it is as if the genetic programme of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes. It is a rampant creation that seems to defy the explanations of evolutionists and fundamentalists. It is like a mescalin dream of Charles Darwin's.

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Portraying the birth of a violent and tragic existence, this film is an iconographic tale of suburban horror humorously expressed in dark, crude elegance. 'Once there was a baby that made those around him hate.'

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The opening animated cartoon title sequence from the Palme d'Or nominated feature film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. The sequence sets up the theme of the film by showing the Peter Sellers character as he bungles his way to causing mayhem and killing off his clones.

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Everything Was Life is an animated documentary looking at the practice of female genital mutilation.

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Night vs. light, music vs. motion, figuration vs. abstraction. Flowing, twisted tubes of light collide with dark pools of shadow in this nocturnal prowl through a neon cityscape. Created entirely from digital photographs.

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When Sid the Scarecrow is faced with his own gruesome demise, he realises he must act fast. With the help of a grumpy, old owl named Albert, Sid embarks on a quest to find a legendary scarecrow named Slash. Will Slash be able to save Sid from his terrible fate?

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A collective film made with the London Bisexual Women's Group. It explores the idea of women and bisexuality through use of live action, animation and sound. A nine-minute experimental piece of work, which uses objects as a starting point in exploring bisexual identity.

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A 7 year old girl is sent on a mission to post a letter by her controlling mother. Her actions lead the girl to be blown into a surreal landscape, full of foreboding suspended objects. We follow the girl's accidental adventures as she is caught in a dangerous storm.

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A selection of 1950s educational stickers, found in a provincial junkshop twenty years ago, provide the ingredients for this adult fairytale. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long?

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A love story of obsession and sharp teeth between a woman left behind in a fairy tale gone wrong and a merman trapped in a reality that drowns him. She, the hunter; She, the trembling little fish.

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An image of a bird migrates across the drawings of one thousand members of the public. In a process akin to Chinese Whispers the initial picture transforms and develops, producing an unpredictable narrative flight.

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A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces. The artist’s interventions in the live-action journey suggest an evolving relationship between an unseen protagonist and his surroundings as we are propelled from overcrowded urban vistas towards isolation in wide open space.