Projects matching: Martin Pickles

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We enter the Labyrinth at Richmond Underground station and emerge somewhere very far away. What will we find?
The film is compiled from photographs taken in London and Heraklion. When run together, they start to move...
This film contains flashing images.

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An introduction to the work of Joy Batchelor, animator, director, and producer. Joy was one half of the Halas & Batchelor Cartoons Studio which made the UK's first animated feature film, Animal Farm, in 1954. Although a crucial figure in British animation, today she is almost unknown, something this film seeks to redress.

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Veteran British animator Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) answers the question "What Is Animation?" His answer is by turns witty, iconoclastic and insightful and all the while is acted out by a tiny man in a bowler hat.

This hand-drawn film is based upon an interview recorded in 2006.

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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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"Remembering John Halas" evaluates the legacy of the Jewish-Hungarian emigre who became the father of British Animation. John’s daughter, Vivien, tries to pick away at the legend and uncover his true nature by looking for clues in his films and by talking to those who liked or merely respected him.

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'Like Me, Only Better' is a laconic comedy about Neuroses, Catholicism and Prozac.

Clive tries to become a better person and to overcome his various Obsessive Compulsive disorders. The film establishes a link between his Catholic upbringing, his childhood imagination and his adult phobias and compulsions.

A hand-drawn animation in pencil, it moves between the inner and outer worlds of the main character.

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A film poem about London in the last hours of the twentieth century. It is composed of documentary footage shot between midday and midnight on 31st December 1999.

I shot it in black and white at 16 fps and telecine-ed it at 25 fps in order to give it the jerky look of an old Edwardian film.

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The Commuter is a Surrealist film in which an office worker shaves his face off every morning in order to blend in with all the other faceless commuters on their way to work. A live-action/digital hybrid, it was repainted on computer frame by frame.
 

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De Chirico is an experimental film in which sunlight projects the shadow of passers-by onto a concrete wall, turning them into actors in an accidental cinema. The film is named after the Italian artist who painted city squares in evening light, populated only by shadows.

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"We were sexy, stylish, we had short sharp songs. We had a kind of manifesto, which was that we were against everything else that was around at the time - which probably accounts for our almost complete lack of success." Singer Pat Reid looks back on his band, the heroically ill-fated Evangelista.

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G.M. is a surrealist film in which an Edwardian gentleman is alternately tormented and rescued by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting-room wallpaper. It was inspired by the work of film pioneer Georges Melies.

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An Edwardian gentleman is tormented by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting-room wall paper. The film was fully-funded by the London Production Fund 2001.

'G.M.' was inspired by the work of magician and film pioneer Georges Melies (1861-1938), whose most famous film - 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' - was exactly one hundred years old in 2001.