Projects in categories: Animation

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It’s a digital day out and the mall just got madder. Repeat to fade and trance away the heartache in a mirror world of mass production. I’m not a human being, I’m a number. Whitewashed? Absolutely. (Colour-) saturated? Sure. See you tomorrow.

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Comic colour capers as we learn the tabloid tale of Bonaparte and his not so bony part. A sensual wash from Waterloo to auctioneers as his pickled portion goes under the hammer. History was never this persuasive. History was never this.

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Appearances are all – or are they – in this jazz-inflected chamber piece (for maid and mistress) on the sensual solitude of women. Check into the Edward Hopper hotel and role reversal might be more than skin deep. For sure the distress is not just on the painted surface. Live action, action painting? Your choice, your dream, your isolation, your identity charade.

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Kaleidoscopics brings together pornographic stills from the internet and bubbles at the edge of running water, putting both through the same digital processes. Eyes, faces and limbs surface and sink again in sequences of coloured tessellations, lead by a music soundtrack that overlays breathy sound with formal patterning.

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Film was created via digital manipulation from four snapshots, evocative images from my childhood in the 1960s. Since the photos were taken I have lost both parents. The process of animation becomes a means for me to relive the past, a chance to resurrect it.

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Camouflage explores the experience of the child growing up with a schizophrenic parent. Based on extensive research it compares a personal account with the experience of others, using interviews, drawings and animation, live action and digital composition.

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'For You' is an adaptation of Jacques Prevert's poem For You My Love. The changing faces of love are shown through the desperate attempts of an over-possessive man to capture his beloved forever.

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A philosopher and his granddaughter are discussing existentialism. Meanwhile we follow the philosophers' dog whose existence raises existential doubts to the philosophy as well as to the film itself.

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Diana Payne Myers' engaging personality and varied career in dance spring to life from the pages of her wonderfully eccentric scrapbook.

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Set in a Friday night disco, Ray and Dave compete on the dance floor for the attention of the beautiful Imogen. A humorous look at the eternal love triangle.

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A woman alone in a room repeatedly writes a letter with tiny broken off pieces of pencil lead. Outside her window, vistas of ever changing light register her every emotion. Awards: Special Jury Mention, Montreal FCMM 2000; Golden Dove Award, Leipzig, 2000; Special Jury Award, Tampere, 2000; Special Mention, Golden Prague Awards 2001; Honorary Diploma Award Cracow 2001; Best Animated Short Film, 50th Melbourne International Film Festival 2001.

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A nervous, late-night rail traveller, waiting on a near deserted platform for the last train, is overcome by his own paranoid fantasies, as the station transforms into a hostile jungle and his fellow travellers become animals.