- Animating the City
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- Film Screening
- Saturday 25 March 2006
7.30pm | 65 mins
animate! presents a dynamic, diverting, sometimes disturbing but always hugely imaginative exploration of urban lives and locales. Nine diverse films, selected from the ever-expanding catalogue of animate! commissions, reveal fresh perspectives of the city.
Running order:
Ferment Tim Macmillan 1999 5 min
A momentary lapse of motion as Macmillan cuts a cross section through the city's day. Mobile photography or freeze film? Small epiphanies and the human trace whatever the terms.
What She Wants Ruth Lingford 1994 5 min
Lust is in the air, everywhere I look around... Sex and shopping, underground thoughts on the underground train, and everywhere capital trying to keep (it) up with desire. Amiga anger about the limits of attraction.
Soho Square Mario Cavalli 1992 11 min
Hot time, summer in the city... A hued thought in a green shade - the life of a square from flesh to paint via video. Characters, lives and stories interweave across the city space. Through 24 hours of light.
Dad's Dead Chris Shepherd 2002 6.5 min
Fights, camera, live action. Its dark days in sink town. Teenage kicks all through the night, for sure (peer pressure you see: balancing fear and admiration). Friends for life? Well, maybe not.
Black, White & Green Ian Bourn 2003 8 min
In a traditional London eel and pie house, solitary diners ponder their steaming dinners, each glimpsing a personal landscape within the food on the plate. What do you see in your pie and mash?
Stressed Karen Kelly 1994 6.5 min
Soft bodies, hard landings. tenement times and the living ain't easy. Drawing (pencil and chalk) our own conclusions about the city.
The Nuclear Train Daniel Saul 2002 9 min
Drama, animated. james is deeply disturbed by the heavy vibrations from the train carrying nuclear waste past his home. When he runs away from the house and a failing relationship, he eneters a surreal dreamscape from which he may never return.
13 Simon Faithfull 2004 5.5 min
A melancholy journey along the A13 trunk road. Created from pixillated Palm Pilot drawings, and taking place in the mind of a dying dog, the film conveys an elliptic and fantastical journey through a parallel universe.
Flight Dryden Goodwin 2005 8 min
A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces: city, motorway, forest, coast and sea, with pen and ink drawn interventions into this live action journey.
animate! call for entries
animate! trailblazes fresh narrative and aesthetic possibilities in film, way beyond live-action and the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation. animate! has commissioned 78 risk-taking films since 1990, refreshing, expanding and redefining animation.
We now want proposals for more path-breaking works. Deadline for submissions is Friday 31 March 2006. We are seeking spirited, radical content... new forms, tools and processes... and fresh ideas.
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