Projects in categories: Animation

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Through play we learn to be human. RAY GUN FUN looks at children's games via the eyes of a child, as a play of power and violence, love and hate, fantasy and real boundaries.

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An animated drama-documentary about Tana, a child holocaust survivor who tells her story for the first time after fifty years and speaks about the reasons for her long silence. The use of mixed styles of animation enabled the film-makers to portray the little girl’s point of view and helps the audience identify with the central character.

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A trinity of dying, as hand exposure of film, drawing, live action and stop-motion conspire to probe the mystery of the final moments. Potent and disquieting as it seeks answers to the great question.

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A mother follows Death through a hostile winter landscape to win back her child, giving up her eyes and her hair on the way. Ruth Lingford's woodcut-like animation, drawn on an Amiga home computer, adapts Hans Christian Andersen's The Story of a Mother.

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Watch out: if you insist on saying "I'm not a Feminist, but...", then you may well find yourself pushing the old man over the edge or behind the sofa, as the case may be. Adapted from the cartoons and drawings of Christine Roche.

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The big issues addressed in an abstract animation ripe with optically manipulated hand-painted film. Employing the associative logic of dream it creates a dazzling reverie of colour and pattern.

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An animated documentary based on the true story of Josie O'Dwyer, with her own voice as personal commentary. The film shows the devastating effect that detention and imprisonment have on young girls who are sent in "for their own protection". Part of Blind Justice (broadcast as In Justice), a four-part Channel 4 series on women and the law.

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A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do. Who knows where the families go?

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Man hands on misery to man. Father and son resist the stereotypes of their race and gender in this personal/historical survey of bias and prejudice. Montage and masculinity meet in an analysis of the black experience.

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CG cushions – couch potatoes who won’t even answer the phone, until the Crimplene angel opens their door onto life. Sofa-day night fever in this digital dance extravaganza.

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The disjointed debris of our childhood state still lurking within our adult consciousness act as a painful, disruptive force. A ghost-like little girl keeps tapping on a woman's consciousness, demanding attention, recalling a traumatic childhood event and thus distorting her experience of the present.

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A dazzling expression of the visual music revealed by 365 setting suns. Over 4500 time-lapse drawings were painted directly onto a continuous strip of 35mm film using a variety of materials such as nail varnish, hair, bleach, net stocking and magnolia petals. Arts Council England and Channel 4 Animate Award.