Tag / animation
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Crafty Women at LIAF 2015
In December I was invited to produce an event for London International Animation Festival (LIAF) 2015 that promoted female animators. I was delighted to be able to bring together three exceptional animators that I have worked with at Animate – Elizabeth Hobbs, Jo Lawrence and Noriko Okaku – as a fan of the work of…
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My Web Videos of 2014
I wrote this Top 5 for Sight & Sound back in January on behalf of Animate, but as it’s more than half way through the year already and S&S haven’t yet posted it online I may as well share it here before I find myself writing my Top Five of 2015 list. 2014 was a great…
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Inescapable animation
I recently presented a selection of films from Ars Electronica Animation Festival at the Austrian Culture Forum London. This was the third year that they invited to me to curate a programme, and this time I was fortunate to be able to also chair a panel afterwards and speak with three brilliant artists who all…
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Filmic Festivities at Flatpack
My March wrapped up with four days of sensory overload thanks to the 9th edition of the superb Flatpack Festival in Birmingham. Having been invited to be on the short film competition jury I was tasked with considering 48 films across five programmes for just two awards. The films that my co-conspirator, animator Joni Mannisto, and…
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Sharing a Persistence of Vision
At Underwire Festival back in November I presented a panel on how to make your mark in the animation industry and how to stay true to your vision at the same time. In keeping with the ethos of Underwire to support female talent it was both a useful exercise in showcasing the work of three…
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Time Out’s Top 100 animated feature films
I recently contributed to Time Out’s poll alongside filmmakers, critics, and the likes of Disney’s Jennifer Lee, animation historian Jerry Beck, and many independent animators producing award winning short films including Koji Yamamura, Jeff Scher, Martha Colburn, Robert Morgan and Lilli Carré. Interestingly the only restriction given to selectors was that the films had to…
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Changing Nature screening
After presenting a screening at the Austrian Culture Forum last spring on transformations in animation, I’m pleased to have been invited back this year to present another screening of work selected from the annual Ars Electronica animation festival. Changing Nature is a selection of films that explore our relationship with natural forms and the natural…
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Top 10 animations of 2013
Below are 10 films that I believe shows 2013 to have been a great year for animated film. As the majority of work I watch at festivals and online tends to be animation, I‘m keeping strictly to the medium with my review of the year and am avoiding straying into the realms of artists’ film…
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God’s special envoys in Iowa
I’m thrilled to have curated a film programme for the University of Iowa’s Exuberant Politics season. If you happen to be in the neighbourhood it screens on Tuesday 3 December at 8pm at the University’s Pappajohn Business Building. God’s special envoys highlights the horrors of conflict in a collective call to peace. Presenting images of the…
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Animation Sketchbooks
Published earlier this year, Animation Sketchbooks is a welcome anthology for anyone who is curious about the painstaking process that goes in to producing animations. It’s a lavish, weighty tome, with 320 pages, which are for the most part elaborately illustrated by the 52 animation artists that grace its pages. It’s as fantastically visual as…
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My exuberant, political programme
I am excited to announce that in December the University of Iowa will be screening a film programme that I have curated for their Exuberant Politics programme – a year long initiative that celebrates “recent intersections of art and activism in the US”.
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Transformations from Ars Electronica
Earlier this year I was lucky to be invited by the Austrian Culture Forum London to select and present a programme of films from the Ars Electronica 2012 festival programme. Ars Electronica is one of the top festivals for animation with a focus on how art, technology and society intersect, is based in Linz in…
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LOOP Barcelona 2013: My selected 5
I’m back from a few sun-filled days spent looking at artists’ moving image at LOOP Barcelona. It was my first visit to LOOP and I imagine that it won’t be my last. From the 44 international galleries that participated this year, here are five works that I felt stood out from the gamut of experimental,…
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Nightmares: three films
Cold and gloomy January is a fitting month to focus on bad dreams. As paranoid classic Rosemary’s Baby plays at the BFI Southbank and the delightfully morbid exhibition Death: A Self Portrait shows at the Wellcome Collection, my mind turns to some recent work I’ve seen. Beluga, Shin Hashimoto, 2012 A dark retelling of the Little…
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Don’t kill your babies
Underwire Festival has taken on the mantle of championing female talent. As a festival it’s young, self-assured and more renegade than those who have come before it. It gives firm support: sharing careers advice in forums across the country, keeping the community updated about the careers of previous festival winners on the website, and running an…
