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Programme notes for Figures in Focus 2024: Wanderlust
For this year’s ‘Figures in Focus’ programme, we are going on an adventure. The selected films examine the urge to explore the world, to travel, to feel the delight to roam. Hand in hand with this sense of wanderlust is the restlessness felt by some, the need to escape their situation, or to return to…
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Figures in Focus: Wanderlust at LIAF 2024
For this year’s ‘Figures in Focus’ programme at the London International Animation Festival, we are going on an adventure. The selected films examine the urge to explore the world, to travel, to feel the delight to roam. Hand in hand with this sense of wanderlust is the restlessness felt by some, the need to escape…
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Animated Shorts at EIFF 2024
If you’re heading to Edinburgh International Film Festival, on Saturday 17 August, 7pm, catch the animated shorts programme at Inspace, as selected by yours truly. · SILENT PANORAMA (Nicolas Piret, Belgium 5’) · TAKO TSUBO (Sorgo Fanny, Pedroza Eva, Austria/Germany 6’) · ON HOLD (Delia Hess, Switzerland 7’) · BUNNYHOOD (Mansi Maheshwari, UK 9’) · THE BLEACHER (Adam Wilder, Nicole…
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Invitation to the Academy
I am over the moon to have been invited to join the Short Films and Feature Animation branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This year 38 professionals were invited in this field. I’m delighted to join artists Tal Kantor, Ülo Pikkov, and Atsushi Wada (who I have had the pleasure of…
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Recent good fortune
At the British Animation Awards ceremony on 7 March, Elizabeth Hobbs’ The Debutante won the award for Best Short Film. What a thrill! Samantha Moore’s Visible Mending, was also nominated for the Audience Award. (I exec produced this short, along with Sue Gainsborough from MediaActive Projects, working with producer Tilley Bancroft.) Visible Mending was also…
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Figures in Focus: Apocalyptic at LIAF 2023
I’ll be returning to London International Animation Festival on Saturday 25 November for a late night programme of prophetic shorts. Book your tickets here. This cathartic selection of artists’ animations includes films that delve into our darkest fears and our greatest hopes. Whilst we’re living through a time that feels eerily as though we are…
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Animated shorts at Edinburgh International Film Festival
Wonderful that EIFF returns to Edinburgh this August after a challenging period of uncertainty. I’m so pleased to have been asked by the new Artistic Director Kate Taylor to pull together an animated shorts programme for this year’s festival. Catch the programme on 23 August at the Vue – tickets here. Whilst the McLaren Award…
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Introduction to Figures in Focus: The Magical World
Everyone who loves the art of animation knows that there is some sorcery in its making, conjuring up impossible worlds from one’s imagination onto the screen. Having spent the last few years working on an animation with artist Elizabeth Hobbs, based on The Debutante, a wicked, short story by artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2111), Leonora’s formidable…
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Conjuring up Figures in Focus: The Magical World for LIAF 2022
“I’ve always had access to other worlds. We all do. Because we dream.” Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) I am delighted to be presenting a selection of shorts inspirited by the esoteric art of Leonora Carrington at London International Animation Festival 2022 at the Barbican Centre on Tuesday 29 November – tickets here. Leonora’s work was influenced…
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Describing A Language of Shapes
In celebration of International Microorganism Day on 17 September, A Language of Shapes, will be shared on Labocine.com. This fairytale about the microscopic world of dysentery, has been created by animated documentary maker Samantha Moore, is based on the scientific research of the Mostowy Lab at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and…
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EIFF programmes announced
Coming up in August, the Edinburgh International Film Festival returns to the cinema once more. I’ve programmed several screenings of shorts and features and a special behind-the-scenes talk. Excitingly this year will be the first year that the McLaren Award winner is decided by a jury of animation professionals. Book your tickets now: McLaren Animation…
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Watch Samantha Moore’s Treasure
The story of two lives, separated by 3,000 years, but connected through belief, sacrifice and a priceless treasure. In celebration of the summer solstice, Treasure by Samantha Moore is now available to watch on Vimeo. Treasure is a film by Samantha Moore, produced by Animate Projects commissioned by Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, and funded by BFI NETWORK via Film Hub Midlands,…
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Chado is now online
Dominica Harrison’s Chado was recently launched online with an interview on Directors Notes and has since been given a Vimeo Staff Pick. “It boasts a beautiful, heartbreaking story which concerns a young child spending a long hot summer at a grandparents before being confronted by her returning mother who brings unsettling news. Harrison’s enchanting illustrative…
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Figures in Focus – Up Yours! introduction
This year’s programme for LIAF is inspired by the seminal work Oh Bondage Up Yours! written by British, feminist, punk pioneer Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex, and its message to break free from the bondage of a patriarchal and consumerist society. (For anyone in doubt, the expression ‘up yours!’ is a very British retort of…
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Discover Jessica Ashman’s Dawta at Flatpack Festival
An exciting new audio-visual project by artist animator and musician Jessica Ashman will premiere at the Flatpack Festival Autumn Edition on Saturday 25 September. Book now to witness this sci-fi inspired work live at MAC, Birmingham. Combining experimental animation techniques and live musical performance – guitar and loops from Jessica Ashman, and drums from visual artist Bimpe Alliu – this…
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Where to uncover Samantha Moore’s Treasure
In Treasure, a metal detectorist’s quest through the Shropshire Marches leads us to a spectacular gold masterpiece, and the leader who sacrifices it for the sake of her child. This glorious, animated adventure, is inspired by the discovery of the amazing Shropshire sun pendant, which it will be exhibited alongside at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery from 10…
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2021 screenings
The programme is now live for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021, which takes place from 18-25 August. Check out the brochure here for all of the exceptional films that will be screening live and online including the Black Box experimental shorts curated by Kim Knowles ay Lydia Beilby, the fiction shorts curated by Jenny Clark,…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
