Projects matching: Emma Calder

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Exploring today’s voyeuristic culture of fear and uncertainty. A woman with extreme anxiety is devoured by four major preoccupations – the man she met by chance on a train, her dying father, her daughter’s safety, and the murder she dreams she has committed. Official Selection Animafest Zagreb 2022 Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022

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Images created by photographer Roger Ballen plunge the audience deep into his mind: an animated theatre of dismembered people, beasts and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and tear themselves apart. A nightmarish subconscious world in black and white.

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Prior to being diagnosed with bowel cancer Richard Wright, an artist/animator, had a social media persona that was characterised by annoying and anarchic humour. After initially feeling unable to communicate at all, his general healing process became entwined with the resurrection of his social media presence.

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Using an animated collage of found objects from Norwich Castle Museum and the banks of the River Thames the film looks at Boudica the woman, what motivated her to keep her freedom and what her story means to us now that we know so much more from recent archaeology.

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An hilarious cartoon assemblage, starring Joan Of Arc, Emmeline Pankhurst and Boris Johnson. "Exquisite Corpses" is an animated version of an old Surrealist game and is a group-project by members of London Animation Club. Each contributor makes a four-second animation, making sure that the last frame of their animation becomes the first frame of the next contributor's.

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Inspired by Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta, Emma Calder's short story animated film The Queen's Monastery, is about a woman whose lover, a former acrobat, has returned to her from war a changed man. Using a highly individual water colour technique the narrative explores themes of love, escapist fantasy, obsession, jealousy and guilt.