Projects in categories: Animation

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Lula Fantastic is a stylish tale of a pop princess who lets celebrity go to her head.

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A collaboration with poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan reflecting on his recent trip to Russia - a short visual poem. A combination of studio set photography, animation and motion graphics illuminate this thoughtful meditation on the notions of travel and identity.

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Eadweard Muybridge was born in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1830. He spent much of his working life in America as a pioneer of photography, only returning to his birthplace at the end of his life.   Mining for Muybridge is a film portrait inspired by the life and work of this most extraordinary man.

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The film is about the friendship between a girl and a cow. Their perfect times together are interrupted by a bee and some sneezes. An enforced separation inspired by caring parents' pales into insignificance when the cow finds herself on another planet. Her quest to get home to see her friend is ludicrously employed and as it turns out - suicidal. We discover that friendship can be fickle, actions have consequences and that hot milk and honey can relieve the common cold.

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Defending tennis champion Kurt Bruckner is struggling to stay in the quarter finals against the up-and-coming tennis star Jorge Romeo. Bruckner loses his serve and his temper when Jorge inadvertently triggers a courtside competition he didn't expect.

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When we close our eyes, the shapes and patterns we see are called phosphenes. This experiment in documentary unfolds like a 'look and learn' phosphenes primer. Animated flowcharts and rich shimmering images uncover some surprising facts about the visual phenomenon that every human experiences.

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A young boy receives the gift of piping from a sinister fairy, in this traditional Scottish Gaelic animated tale complete with 21st century bagpipe soundtrack.

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An ancient tale retold, of a city under siege and the terrible action taken by one woman to save it.   The city elders are prepared to surrender, but Judith has other ideas. From the battlements she has watched Holofernes, the enemy general, and now she plans revenge and triumph. When they meet in his camp, they discover more complex desires and needs in each other, and during one night work out a passionate and dangerous relationship. By dawn Judith is victorious, but it is a bitter victory.   Does patriotrism justify any action? Is Judith a hero or a maniac? Is Holofernes oppressor or victim? Is this a story about the sexiness of war or the savagery of sex? Can violence ever generate peace, or does it just keep the brutal cycles of war, defeat, victory and reprisal circling forever?

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An old lady remembers the journey she made as a newly-wed from England to Czechoslovakia in 1945.

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An ironic look at the way newspapers report children's deaths, accidents, bad mothers, angry fathers and the bogeyman. Based on the film maker's archive of newspaper clippings, these are terrible stories that make great copy. With an inventive mix of still photography and live action, the film sweeps around Britain to create a chilling comment on death, news reporting and the family.

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Schoolyard Samurai follows the misadventures of a cute unassuming little girl as she strives to fit in with the other kids at school. After several failed attempts to join in playground games she decides to take action.

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A father and daughter dance together but their playful banter turns to jealousy and indignation. Anger builds between the generations and sexes, starting a cycle of violence seemingly without end.