British Council Logo UK Films Database
Project Detail

The Art of Reducing Noise

Synopsis

In our turbulent times, silence seems like a necessary escape. This animated film evaluates this concept, looking in particular at one important figure in history who used this in an astonishing way to evaluate the world we live in.
Official Selection VIS, Vienna Shorts Film Festival 2019
Visit Film Website

Details

Year
2018
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
4 min 14 sec
Format
Hand drawn animation/ Mixed media / DCP/Prores output
Director
Heidi Stokes
Producer
Heidi Stokes
Co-Producer
Heidi Stokes
Executive Producer
Heidi Stokes
Editor
Heidi Stokes
Screenwriter
Heidi Stokes
Director of Photography
Heidi Stokes
Production Designer
Heidi Stokes
Sound
pond5.com
Composer
pond5.com /
With special thanks to
Darren Philip with whom in part this story was based on.

Genre

Climate / Environment Woman Director Science

Categories

Animation Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Animated-Worlds Ltd

Heidi Stokes

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

Suggest amendments

See also

You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.

unusual rules unusual rules

Director: Heidi Stokes

Year: 2022

As Yuvel Noah stated in a ‘brief history of humankind’ ’ Unlike any other species on the planet, Human beings have created a whole system made up of just imaginary ideas.’ The question is have we used them wisely?

Experimental Climate / Environment Woman Director Science
Weekly Planner Weekly Planner

Director: Heidi Stokes

Year: 2021

'I invite you into the world of my weekly planner.' Premiere at the 19th (2022) IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival

Experimental Woman Director
A 3d printed of a female duet displayed in a vitrine in front of a projection of a digital image of the split second of the duet captured in photogrametry Loss.y

Director: Lisa Jamhoury

Year: 2026

Situated at the physical-virtual threshold, loss·y memorializes corporeal passing and digital rebirth. The work intertwines animated sculptural “dances” with interactive spatial audio, inviting audiences to navigate invisible thresholds as they move. loss·y presents three split-seconds of a motion-captured female-female pas de deux: each moment is suspended in a vignette that overlaps projection and 3D prints encapsulating the dance in sculpture, with spoken-word poetry and spatial sound design. The installation’s audioscapes blend cold technical facts, accounts of digital dysmorphia and surveillance, and computer-generated sampling, creating an elegy to the vital body that is at once human and digital. On its surface a critique of today’s techno-society, loss·y collusively takes up digital reduction and surveillance as creative media, revealing reverence for the uncanny wonder that pulls us forward into our new, hybridized world. Official Selection SXSW 2026

Dance Experimental Music Woman Director