Animate Projects
By Animate Projects
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Podcast Description
Animate Projects presents a selection of short experimental animations and interviews with artists. Animate Projects champions experimental animation. For more information about the films and filmmakers visit animateprojects.org.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | VideoAdam Butcher Interview | Adam Butcher has been writing and directing since 2006. His work combines live action, puppetry, hand-drawn and computer animation. Adam has directed music videos and charity promos, and designs and programs freeware computer games. His film Bradley Manning Had Secrets is the story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks 'hacktivist', but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-gender-identity. The Digitalis Commissions are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoBradley Manning Had Secrets by Adam Butcher | Using Adrian Lamo's chat logs of instant messenger conversations he had with Bradley, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation. Commissioned by Animate Projects, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoJames Lowne Interview | James Lowne is an artist who has worked commercially in post-production, and has exhibited drawings, animation and film in London. In Our relationships will become radiant three narratives unfold together. Inside a vast nature reserve sits a solitary building where an important meeting is being held by executives. Outside in the park, the collective singular lounge about wearing fancy garments. Meanwhile, the dormant wildlife fades away. The Digitalis Commissions are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoFive Year Plan by Matilda Tristram | It is an appreciation of the arbitrary nature of symbols found in emoji mobile applications, where you can find such things as an egg, a poo, a syringe, a sun, a puppy, an old man, a palm tree or a saxophone in one category to punctuate text message conversations. The script is based on a selection of symbols; it is an attempt to connect them, and to celebrate the unpredictable, hilarious, moving and complicated nature of communication and understanding. Commissioned by Animate Projects, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoOur relationships will become radiant by James Lowne | Inside a vast nature reserve sits a solitary building, a café, where an important meeting is being held by executives. Outside in the park, the collective singular lounge about wearing fancy garments. Images are exchanged, participation simulated: the interminable present. Meanwhile, the dormant wildlife fades away. Commissioned by Animate Projects, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoFountain (zoom) by Lizzie Hughes | A slow zooming shot of a particularly exuberant fountain was filmed beginning from the far distance and stopping when it reached full frame, before immediately zooming back out again. The resulting footage was divided into just over 3,700 still frames and each of these images digitally manipulated so that the size of the fountain within the frame of the screen remains constant for the duration of the film. Commissioned by Animate Projects, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoLizzie Hughes Interview | Lizzie Hughes is an artist whose work includes installation, sound, text and video works. Aside from her studio practice, she has undertaken residencies and commissions which have taken her work into a broad public realm. Her film Fountain (zoom) is a slow zooming shot of a particularly exuberant fountain. The footage was divided into 3,700 still frames and digitally manipulated so that the size of the fountain remains constant for the duration of the film. The Digitalis Commissions are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoMatilda Tristram Interview | Matilda Tristram graduated with an MA Animation from the Royal College of Art in 2008. She has worked as an animation director on music videos and online virals and as a scriptwriter and developer for Ragdoll Productions. Her film Five Year Plan is an abstract comedy for devices such as iPhones or iPads, using emoji (Japanese text message character pictures) as material with which to draw. The Digitalis Commissions are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoMelting Point by Bill Balaskas | Bill Balaskas: "The gadgets that surround us often combine the promise for 'digital perfection' with the assertion that the 'special' moments of our lives only deserve an equally 'special' and 'perfect' means of documentation. For this project, I set up and documented such a stereotypical, 'perfect' moment, using the gadget that has acquired an almost symbolic status in today's digital culture: Apple's iPhone. After applying filters that 'fix' digital noise on both image and sound, I juxtaposed sequentially a frame of original footage with a frame of manipulated footage. The value of the filters applied on each manipulated frame is slightly bigger than the one applied on the previous frame. As a result, the effort to 'improve digital perfection' ends up becoming an agent of disruption, confusion and decay." | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoGalaxy by Jordan Baseman | Galaxy is a somber, back and white film that portrays the stark architecture of Brighton's Horror Hotel and the end of the pier Galaxy ride. Washed out, barely-there images flicker in silhouette. In a landscape that is normally teeming with people - this ride, this place, is empty. Summer is over. Shot on 16mm film using stop-frame animation techniques. The recorded material was then hand-processed, then professionally digitised. As the surface of the emulsion on the negative was intentionally physically punctured, torn and damaged through this most basic of developing processes, the resulting film is flecked with scratches and streaked with black scars. | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoEngine Angelic by Katerina Athanasopoulou | Katerina Athanasopoulou: "The film started by walking through the remains of old, disused gasworks, shooting with a handheld digital camera. I was there looking for inspiration, without a storyboard or shot list, but observing and imagining how these particular machines could come to life. The live action was then masked and cut up digitally, removing the background elements mostly frame by frame. I used still images from the same machines to create extra 2D elements such as pipes and scaffolding. Further videos of working machines were cut out to animate the scaffolding. The entire process was like a collage of still and moving elements, created in After Effects and Photoshop, using the live action that I originally shot. After calculating the 3D space, I created tentacles that flowed freely, attracting cell-like amoebas. The latter were composited on top and through the live action - animation mix. " | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | ExplicitVideoAn Odd Little Opus by Chris Newby | Chris Newby: "Taste in the human tongue has five receptors: Salty, Bitter, Sour, Sweet and Umami. Umami is to be found in bacon. I imagined a great deal of this film while sitting on the end of Southend Pier which in itself is a kind of tongue or spit. I always set out to make jolly films but somehow they always go sinister on me. This one is no exception." | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoSuper-Whip by Jordan Baseman | Super-Whip is colourful and bright: a frenetically spinning/stuttering/stopping depiction of the Super-Waltzer ride on Brighton Pier. Presented in a split-screen frenzy, Super-Whip is frantic and relentlessly joyful because of its hallucinatory nature. The driving soundtrack of original music propels the visuals ever faster. Shot on 16mm film using stop-frame animation techniques, the recorded material was then hand-processed, then professionally digitised. As the surface of the emulsion on the negative was intentionally physically punctured, torn and damaged through this most basic of developing processes, the resulting film is flecked with scratches and streaked with black scars. | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoOf Unknown Origin by Edwin Rostron | Inspired by the tape recordings of Raymond Cass, a hearing-aid specialist from Hull and one of the UK's foremost researchers into 'Electronic Voice Phenomenon' (EVP). EVP recordings present messages 'of unknown origin' heard in radio frequencies and background noise, and possess a distorted, unearthly quality. Many researchers into EVP believe they are the voices of the dead. Through a series of fragmentary scenes rendered in pencil and watercolour animation we enter into an unsettling territory somewhere between the real and the abstract. We hear the strange sounds of EVP, and Cass himself talking about his work. But the film is not about Cass, instead it takes the details of his life and work, and the recordings themselves, as a route to explore the hidden realms of the unconscious mind. The film mirrors the uncanny, inexplicable nature of EVP, the mystery and poetry of the recordings, and challenges rational explanations. | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoInternational Fauna by Melanie Jackson | International Fauna is a blast, an anti-anthem, a parade of the animal symbols designated by nation states quick change through a background of digital colour fields. The representations are matched back with their animal call, for the duration of the image - a concrete composition of the absurd. International Fauna is commissioned by Relational and produced with Animate Projects and Picture This as part of the Anti-Bodies programme Anti-Bodies is co-ordinated by Relational, with support from Arts Council England, and granted the London 2012 Inspire mark as part of the Cultural Olympiad. | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoEdgeland Mutter by Andrew Kötting | Drawing on Kötting's own extensive Super 8 archive and growing body of Mini DV footage, and featuring a voiceover from Iain Sinclair, the film attempts to portray a fragmented and nostalgic view of a part of the world that has proved vital to the very fabric of Kötting's existence. One of three short film 'coastcards', commissioned by Animate Projects as part of the Sea Change initiative. | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoTeign Spirit by Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore | The Jones family holidayed in Teignmouth from 1934 to 1939, their summer activities captured forever on black and white film. A lifetime later the town is still here: ships in the docks, bathers on the beach, people promenade. Teign Spirit celebrates this continuity, mixing these home movies with new waves. One of three short film 'coastcards', commissioned by Animate Projects as part of the Sea Change initiative. | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoLove Brid by Susan Collins | An animated postcard, Love Brid has been made with a view to an online/iPhone context and is intended to be browsed interactively as a series of stills, or digital flipbook, as well as be seen as a linear animated film. One of three short film 'coastcards', commissioned by Animate Projects as part of the Sea Change initiative. | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoDamage Limitation by Phil Coy | A public information film becomes affected by the flooding it warns of. Co-commissioned with RSA Arts & Ecology. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoSevered, The Deracinater & The Isle by Simon Woolham | The three short animations, Severed, a landscape in peril, coughing up its own blood, The Deracinater, a tree trying to communicate and uproot itself and The Isle, a whole landscape under threat, heighten the human impact and presence on our landscape, both social and ecological. Co-commissioned with RSA Arts & Ecology. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | Videod is for dodo by Jordan Baseman | A nocturnal, single shot of an illuminated, urban, store-front sign that reads: Chez Dodo. We see silhouettes of people as they pass in front of us. We hear an evocative, somber piano lament. Co-commissioned with RSA Arts & Ecology. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoMake it snow! make it snow! make it snow! by Manu Luksch | A short meditation on the manipulation of winter landscapes for tourism that points to the landscapes fragility and recalls the need for a holistic perspective. Co-commissioned with RSA Arts & Ecology. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoI'm Sucking on a Tailpipe in Seoul by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries | A sushi dinner with friends during which they talk of other climates, other dishes. Co-commissioned with RSA Arts & Ecology. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | Videoit's like this. by Elodie Pong | The film takes on the industrial wasteland, replacing the lost nature with artificial beautification. Co-commissioned with RSA Arts & Ecology. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoAtlantis by Christine Ödlund | A hand drawn animation of an apocalyptic scenario: the earth is covered in mould and fungi due to global warming. Extreme weather has forced man to take refuge under the sea surface. Co-commissioned with RSA Arts & Ecology. | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
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