Category: Films
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No animation here, but a new way with documentary story-telling which we feel sure you’ll want to see! Five years ago, the most iconic of David Lynch’s heroines, Isabella Rossellini, went from ‘Blue Velvet’ to ‘Green Porno.’ The actress and student of biology took on the characters of a mantis, a dolphin, a bedbug, a…
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Screening in London on the 18th & 20th March as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, this feature tells the story of Shin Dong-Huyk, born into a North Korean prison camp as the son of political prisoners. Using animated sequences which are not perhaps the most elegant, the film nonetheless take us into…
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Graham Chapman, in his own voice, leads the audience through his bookish youth at Eton, confused sexuality at Cambridge and the early days of success with Monty Python, but this is not a narrative of glory. The deceased narrator also provides a cutting analysis of alcoholism and the vacuous existence of fame. The feature is…
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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
