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  • The Debutante receives BFI support

    Really thrilled to be working again with Lizzy Hobbs on The Debutante, a new animation, made with ink and paint and paper collage. The film is based on British-born artist Leonora Carrington’s wonderful short story of the same name. Animate was successful in securing funding from the BFI’s new fund for short form animation fund,…

    18/11/2020
  • Snow White Cologne, Amanda Eliasson

    Female Figures 2020

    Glad to be at London International Animation Festival this year with the 4th edition of Female Figures. On 27 November you’ll be able to watch the programme online. It was scheduled to show at the Barbican, but the lockdown has sadly curtailed that live event. This programme is one that considers coming of age stories,…

    05/11/2020

  • Chado: Dreaming in Textures

    So pleased to share news of Dominica Harrison’s solo exhibition of artwork from the film Chado. Chado: Dreaming in Texture is at Leicester Print Workshop from 12 September to 7 November and is the venue’s first exhibition since lockdown began. At the centre of the exhibition is experimental animation, Chado, which combines digital animation and…

    11/09/2020

  • McLaren Award and International Animation programme selections

    I am pleased to share the animations I had selected earlier this year for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2020. If the world hadn’t gone into meltdown I’m sure I’d have had a brilliant time sharing these shorts and speaking to their makers at the Filmhouse. These are some really remarkable films – congratulations to all!…

    02/09/2020

  • Life since lockdown

    In my last post I wrote about the screenings at Strangelove Festival that were scheduled to take place and that had to move online once lockdown came into force at the end of March. Many live events, screenings and exhibitions that had been a long time in the making for 2020 were postponed indefinitely, some…

    30/08/2020

  • Strangelove screenings – now online

    I am pleased to be sharing Animate Projects Presents, a programme of films that I’ve been involved in the making of. Experience reimagined histories, compelling documentaries and curious visions of our future. I am also presenting a selection of the Japan Grand Prix winners from the New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival. Thanks to festival…

    09/03/2020
  • Bloomers, Samantha Moore

    Bloomers nominated for the British Animation Awards

    I am thrilled that Samantha Moore’s experimental animated documentary Bloomers has been nominated for Best Short Film at the British Animation Awards 2020. In celebration of this achievement we are launching the film on Vimeo on 4 March, a week before the BAAs awards announcement. Bloomers incorporates the materiality of garment manufacturing as it combines…

    14/02/2020
  • The Flounder, Elizabeth Hobbs

    LIAF awards

    Amazing news – the top prizes at this year’s London International Animation Festival (LIAF) 2019 were awarded to two films that I produced this year. The Flounder by Elizabeth Hobbs was awarded Best of the Fest and Best Sound Design for its composition by Carola Bauckholt. Bloomers by Samantha Moore received Best British Film. The films screened both in…

    09/12/2019
  • Entropia by Flora Anna Buda

    FEMALE FIGURES – To Boldly Go…

    For the third edition of Female Figures at London International Animation Festival, our gaze has landed on women making science fiction inspired, animated shorts. In this selection, these intrepid animators from across the planet imagine brave new worlds whilst placing women at the heart of their speculative stories. Given the tumultuous times we find ourselves…

    05/12/2019
  • Ursa Minor, Yearin Lee

    Female Figures

    It’s almost time for the third edition of Female Figures at London International Animation Festival. This year I am focusing my attention on women making science fiction inspired, animated shorts, given the popularity of this genre and recent discussions around Love, Death and Robots, which I’m not even going to start debating here but you…

    02/11/2019
  • The Flounder, Elizabeth Hobbs

    Happiness Machine screenings

    Coming up you can find the Happiness Machine programme at: Manchester Animation Festival on Wednesday 13 November at 5pm, followed by a Q&A with directors Samantha Moore (Bloomers) & Elizabeth Hobbs (The Flounder), and co-founder of Tricky Women Waltraud Grausgruber. London International Animation Festival on Tuesday 3 December at 6:30pm, followed by a Q&A with…

    02/11/2019

  • I’m OK now online

    I”m so delighted to finally be able to share Elizabeth Hobbs’ gorgeous experimental short I’m OK, inspired by the life and the craft of Austrian Expressionist Artist Oskar Kokoschka, is now freely available to watch online at NFB.CA. Click on the video below to play! I’m OK, Elizabeth Hobbs, provided by the National Film Board…

    05/10/2019
  • Bloomers, Samantha Moore

    Heading up to Edinburgh

    Next weekend I shall be off to Edinburgh International Film Festival with wonderful animators Elizabeth Hobbs and Samantha Moore. Our films Bloomers and The Flounder are both in competition for the McLaren Award for Best New British Animation. You can catch The Flounder on Friday 28 June in Programme 1 and Bloomers on Saturday 29…

    20/06/2019
  • Female Figures panel at LIAF 2018, Photo: Martin Pickles

    LIAF Q&As now online

    You can now watch the Q&As from the two events that I chaired at London International Animation Festival in December. First up is the post-screening discussion around AFTERMATH, a programme of animations about war, trauma, conflict and loss, co-curated with Elizabeth Hobbs. The speakers, whose wonderful films screened in the programme, were Maryam Mohajer, Emma…

    13/04/2019
  • The Flounder, Elizabeth Hobbs

    Animated events in April and May

    From 6 April you can enjoy the epic exhibition Oskar Kokoschka: Expressionist, Migrant, European – A Retrospective at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Thanks to Tricky Women’s support, Elizabeth Hobbs’ I’m OK has been included in the exhibition, amongst more than 260 exhibits. The exhibition runs to 8 July, so there’s plenty of opportunity to…

    28/03/2019
  • DOOZy, Richard Squires

    It’s a DOOZY of a tour

    Next month you can find DOOZY travelling the country, in an exclusive, UK-wide, screening tour. For each event there will be a post-screening discussion, where a different special guest will be in conversation with the film’s maker, artist Richard Squires. (Plus I may be popping up at one or two of them, as might the…

    22/03/2019
  • Bloomers, Samantha Moore

    Celebrating women in animation

    In the spirit of International Women’s Day, I am happily celebrating the success of recently completed productions, Bloomers and The Flounder, made by two incredible women animators – Samantha Moore and Elizabeth Hobbs, who worked with renowned composers Malin Bång and Carola Bauckholt respectively. These films were made for Klangforum Wien’s project ‘Happiness Machine‘, that…

    08/03/2019
  • I'm OK, Elizabeth Hobbs

    2019 begins with a bang

    I am over the moon to share that I’m OK has been nominated for the BAFTA British Short Animation 2019, alongside Jonathan Hodgson’s Roughhouse and The Brothers McLeod’s Marfa. Stiff competition! I’m OK also will be screening in competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in February, and with support from the British Council I will be attending to see…

    11/01/2019
  • Simbiosis Carnal, Rocio Alvarez

    Female Figures 2018 – introduction

    After having hosted another invigorating Female Figures screening and panel discussion at London International Animation Festival, joined by my brilliant guests Jenny Jokela, Jez Stewart, Kate Jessop and Thalma Goldman Cohen (pictured here), I’d like to share the introduction I wrote for the festival catalogue: Female Figures was born from a desire to present an alternate view of…

    12/12/2018
  • how to make a ghost, Gabriela Escovar

    Female Figures returns to LIAF

    I am so thrilled to be bringing Female Figures back to London International Animation Festival for a second year in a programme that once again champions female animation talent in a programme of extraordinary works exploring female desire by contemporary animators and their predecessors. These stimulating works present a range of perspectives on the female…

    26/10/2018