Rachel Maclean’s bright, emoji-feminist fairy tale-style touches a new darkness in her first completely animated short.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - What Are You Looking At?
SWEDGE OF HEAVEN is a moving image project that continues a line of the artist's practice engaging with the nature of experience in relation to place – particularly through the perspective of being connected to a place whilst simultaneously being a stranger to or outside of it.
Using real world locations in Essex, Swedge of Heaven explores liminal/transitional/peripheral spaces and realms, navigated by a reanimated rave mascot and a wooden Neolithic fertility figure.
Although from distant moments in history, the protagonists are both figures indicative of ritual gathering created by Essex communities. Within the work the isolated figures hover in cultural/historical flux, a state of simultaneous belonging and alienation as they pass through and around places seemingly suspended on the edge of conventional time and space.
The project employs experimental digital animation techniques that bring together 3D generated models of real world objects/sites and computer generated actors that navigate in and out of these virtual real world spaces.
A reinvention of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance.
The opening scenes of the film follow a Victorian family preparing a toy theatre for their annual performance of 'A Christmas Carol'. As the family's grandmother narrates the much-edited story and her grandchildren change the scenery, we enter the imagination of one of the children in the audience and watch as the cardboard stage, and the story with it, transforms into a darkly fantastical otherworld.
A story of independence, about a hot water bottle who gets left out in the cold. Directed and animated by Jenny Wright, it is a silent animation, exploring the nature and values of relationships, comfort, support and abandonment, told through an evocative line drawing and watercolour style.
The animation combines hand drawings inspired by bio-medical imagery with creative coding, which animates drawings in response to the soundtrack data. Coding and data seemed particularly relevant for the subject matter of the pandemic, because we use data and algorithms to model and predict future outbreaks.
A daughter tries to mend her fractured relationship with her father but his attitudes create more complications than she had expected. An intriguing mix of stop-motion animation and interviews reveal a family’s mythology and complex family dynamics.
Official Selection Hot Docs Festival 2021 - World premiere
Encounters Film Festival 2021 - UK Student Award - winner
Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021
BAFTA Film Awards 2021 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation
Set and filmed at the Royal Pavilion Brighton, this artist film is a postcolonial response to chinoiserie. Historical individuals from Taiwan, China and Britain question, fail to understand, argue and disagree with each other over the representation of Chineseness in chinoiserie in-situ.
Bibi is plagued by memories of the past, and her granddaughter Simran is starting to notice. In resolving to teach Simran how to make Cha, they are pulled into the past, to Bibi's memories of one fateful day in Delhi, 1984.
John likes routine. He comes back home one day to find his wife gone. He pretends that she still lives with him and over time, settles into this new life. Will anyone find out that his wife has left him? How long will he continue the charade?
An animated short about charting the unknown within our own minds, human fragility and high tech surgery, longing for home, and fishing. WHITE OUT is made through drawing and animating handprinted photograms, incorporating nautical charts, digital drawing and plates from the 'Schaltenbrandt Atlas for Stereotaxy'.
