Projects in categories: Animation

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A candid look at the loser's bench. Warning! It's got balls.

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Success With Sweet Peas is a short surreal animated documentary about competitive sweet pea growing in Shropshire. Growers, showers and arrangers talk about the irresistible lure of the sweet pea, combined with imagery evoking the quintessentially English pursuit of flower perfection. "It's a lovely little pea, that."

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Two taps discover they can create a rhythmic sound from the water dripping from their spouts, but are constantly interrupted by a third tap.

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The Brick is an animated black comedy about a fat, lazy demon that thinks he's going to take over the world with a brick. The story is a cyclical tale about a character that perpetuates his own doom through stupidity and paranoia.

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The Dog Who Is a Cat Inside is a special animal. The dog and cat live together in the same body, but this causes conflict. They learn that only by resolving their differences and working together can they find happiness.   Commissioned by Ruth Fielding of Lupus Films as part of Channel 4 Television's Animator in Residence scheme.

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The last in the Fish in the Machine trilogy. A yellow puffer fish, caught in a world of mirrors, flickers from colour to high contrast black and white, in syncopation with the percussive rhythms of gamelan music. Suddenly, the video changes tone, incorporating an extract from a television broadcast with rather more political and social consequences for us all.

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Ghost & The Crystal  is a re-working in video clips from a film made by Stuart Pound almost thirty years ago. The new technology and the old examine each other with mock-cinematic effects of colour, contrast and movement. The soundtrack is contemporary music played on a traditional instrument of popular entertainment, the hurdy-gurdy.

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Phoebe has never lived without TV. One day, she turns him off.

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All is not right underground. The tube is in chaos yet no one knows why. What's more the mice are disappearing. Who is the dark figure taking a fervent interest in both? Meanwhile deep below something is trembling.

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A multi-media video, that explores the twilit world of pathways, journeys and life choices we encounter as we move from cradle to grave. In an ebb and flow of moods and weathers, the film creates a metaphor for the journey through life where at the end people clamber up a pencil scribble of a staircase into a universe of hand-painted and crayoned stars and moons.

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Some people can change your life. Tim Webb's work wryly reflects on life from mid-life. Memory, expectation, disappointment, education, hero worship, all human failings. Mr Price is about illusions and representation - how we understand the world and people around us.

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A neurotic stop-frame analysis of the daily torture of the desk-bound being, freeze-frame tensions disrupting the film’s surface and material.