Action sequences taken from three cinema films are turned into a semi-abstract experience in which the world is literally turned on its side. Material was taken from DVD’s purchased recently from charity shops in London, a further example of appropriating dominant cinema as a canvas for video art.
A dark fantastical tale in which a man enters into a pact with all the insect inhabitants of his rural cottage.dripping with honey,sex,flies,meat... and a very sticky end.
Annie’s day at The Library starts like any other, but the intriguing man who takes the seat opposite her encourages her thoughts to stray and sets her pulse racing. The Library takes the viewer into their fantasies to share in what could happen if etiquette is overridden by carnal urges.
A powerful and inspirational film about the loss of childhood, the stripping away of identity and, ultimately, the hope of reconciliation, all set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
Through innovative animation, the film tells the story of the 4000 Basque children evacuated to the United Kingdom in 1937. Forced to bid a hurried farewell to their parents, these children were told they would only be in the UK for three months. 75 years later, some are still there, forever separated from their parents and their homeland, their families torn apart and their childhood destroyed by a brutal and bloody conflict.
Through the voices of 14 of these children, now in their 80s & 90s, we reveal this tragic episode in history in a stunning animated documentary that is profound, unexpected and uplifting.
Subtitled 'The Untrue Story Of Monty Python's Graham Chapman.'
John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story.
One in three girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, conflict or discrimination. This animated film shows, in 2000 fun still photos of 15 children in their village in Malawi, how education can give girls the chance to move from poverty to opportunity.
Over the past decade, labia surgery has increased by a staggering 500%. Centrefold is a unique animated documentary that takes an innovative and balanced approach to this controversial topic. Created by award-winning filmmaker Ellie Land and funded by the Wellcome Trust, visit www.thecentrefoldproject to find out more and join the debate.
Grandmother is a Crab borrows from an earlier digital video, made fifteen years ago, that itself used footage captured from a travel advertisement on television. Black and white, and mirror effects, take the image out of time, giving it both vividness and distance. The music is played in reverse. And the voice-over and under-titles are a poem that re-enters the magic world of a child on a beach.
Macropolis is the story of two reject toys who escape from the factory. Determined to rejoin the other toys, they lose themselves in the big city. Shot in an unusual combination of stop motion, CGi and time-lapse photography, this short film is animated entirely on the streets of Belfast.
