Category: Films
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Here is our first interview with a film maker in what we hope to be a regular feature on our blog. Jeff Simpson, one of the three co-directors of A Liar’s Autobiography, talks about the experience of making the animated feature based on Graham Chapman’s life. I asked Jeff to explain the genesis of the…
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https://vimeo.com/13103023 ‘An Oversimplification of Her Beauty‘ By Terence Nance An autobiographical debut feature which documents the frustrations of creator Terence Nance’s ambiguous relationship. Live action is interspersed with a variety of animated sequences from a team of over fifteen animators including Nance (also the writer, director, producer and central protagonist). The film received enough attention…
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We are thrilled that Charlotte Kaye has also joined our team and she will be guest blogging later this week. Charlotte’s latest film is a stop-motion piece about the disorientation of insomnia. It was filmed entirely at night in her bedroom and each component is a true obsessive ritual that keeps her awake. It illustrates the uncertainty of…
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365 – February from The Brothers McLeod on Vimeo. Might be pushing it a bit here, but the makers describe their project to make 1 second of animation a day, every day of 2013, thus: ‘Some of the days are things that happened, others are things that have been fired off in our imaginations, and…
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Continuing our promises of exciting new things planned for the blog this year we are extremely pleased and excited to welcome on board two very talented people; Alex Widdowson and Charlotte Kaye. They will both be our resident interns for the spring and will be contributing to the blog on a regular basis, so watch this space!…
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News of an upcoming Canadian animadoc feature, to be released to compete with Warner Bros’ biopic on anti-virus guru John McAfee, titled ‘Running in the Background’. Click for more details of ‘The Hinterland’.
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We have featured the work of Em Cooper before, this time she has partnered with Artist Anna Cadey, in this documentary which features live action and animation. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2012/sep/26/sierra-leone-women-refuse-whistling-quota-video
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Ah this is a little gem, a fantastic female character! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawQkjSLKns
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Happy New Year Readers! We have a new category for the blog featuring graphic novels and comics – all exploring real life stories or subjects. Our first post is about the award winning autobiographical graphic novel written and illustrated by a husband and wife team. Article below: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/02/costa-awards-graphic-novel-biography
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Due to be released in 2013, the film features 17 different animation styles, which perhaps we get a glimpse of here in this trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbW842eMNtI
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