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British Animation Awards 4
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Available from British Animation Awards
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Home
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The British Animation Awards website
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BAA 2002 titles
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| Weird stone-head sheep make an epic journey through all possible dangerous elements (making Led Zep crop circles on the way) to arrive at the shores of London and the eponymous event. Raucousness ensues. |
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Bob Cosford
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Novelty
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| Umm...okay. Little live stop motion girl gets goofy face slippers, which she imagines are the heads of animated creatures who live upside down under the floor. Sort of. She feeds them colors from her socks and exasperates her mother and punishes them with black stockings. Eventually, she puts on toenail polish and abandons them to Toy Story 2 neglect, the novelty having worn off. |
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Leigh Hodginkson
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Metalstasis
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| Anthropomorphized robot life cycle. Robot gets old and sluggish due to rats living within it. Robots place in life cycle is ingeniously displayed by robot running on edge of a turning screw. He tries traps, he tries poison, eventually runs off end of screw and lands...on another, bigger, slower screw, watching a rat in a cage. |
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Matthew Hood
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The Lucky Dip
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| Elaborate sets and Rudolphesque characters with fairground music. Little girl travels to a seaside resort in winter with faceless parents (ah to be in England). She wanders into an arcade and tries to capture an animated teddy bear with the eponymous (I like that word) game. Titular game? She fails. She’s scared by Pin Man, who breaks the machine. She and Teddy fall through a hole, Teddy runs away, Pin Man saves her, and she gets on the bus with her folks. Well done if a little so whaty. |
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Emily Skinner
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Intolerance
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Odd simple morality tale about a film recovered from space depicting the customs of the Zogs, who are like humans, but not. Genitals for heads, they fuck for greetings, shit through their mouths, and get off by dressing up and shaking hands. The Zog film so infuriates the Earthlings that they demand the planet be hunted down and annihilated. Curiously, precisely the same thing happens on Zog. Very stark black and white painted animation. People are all black, Zogs all white. Very subtle. |
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Phil Mulloy
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| Very clever telling of a pool game told as if the balls were athletes and the inner chamber of the table is the locker room. Balls come in one at a time, reacting as though they’ve been benched from the big game. Very expressive ball animation—especially considering it’s only the angle that ever changes. Balls of a feather flock together, cue ball passes through to wolf whistles, game ends when black ball enters (poor largely misunderstood eight ball) and they all leave. Eight sticks, so unseen player tilts the table to get it out. Clever and amusing. |
Rockin' and Rollin'
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Richard Jack, Daniel Greaves
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Daddy
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| Odd moody Texas tone poem. Small town life of adultery and aliens from outer space rendered in flat new wave characters—like paper cut-outs with a limited and controlled palette. Very noiry graphics. Little girl find’s lecherous stepfather’s secret alien mercury T2 goo and gives it back. Great clean design and evocative imagery. |
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Stephen Cavalier
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Home Road Movies
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| Charming, bittersweet reminiscnece of a British family and the road trips with their father. Beautiful mix of live action and still photography, done up in a stylized over-saturated postcard look, with jaunty stock music accompaniment. The kids get older, their father loses his luster as king of all he surveys and the family drifts apart. Lovely. Included as a bonus disc, though apparently meant to go here. |
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Robert Braddock
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Plain Pleasures
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| Mixed style adaptation of a Jane Bowles story from the woman who brought you 3 Ways to Go (British Animation Awards 2). Translucent rotocam mixed with blocky, sparse scrawls. Awkward first date with a drunk chick and building mate. Fair. |
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Sarah Cox
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Q4 Music.com
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| Series of crude black and white drawings of a three-piece punky band singing microjingles for Q4, complete with bad camera moves and dead drummer jokes. |
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Sam Morris
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Tennets: pintlings
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| CSI for/by pint glasses of Tennets tracking the horrible pink monsters that drank them. “Murder One Tonight” is an interesting slogan. |
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Darren Walsh
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Aero: kiosk
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| Live action commuter buys a candy bar and is treated to a dancing mouse, who (whom?) he rejects. All bubble, no squeak. Gotta love those Limeys. |
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Alyson Hamilton
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Hot Spot
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| Two chumps try to impress a bored Asian hottie at Tosserz nightclub. Humorous deadpan computer animation from Aardman with great cheezy disco music. Entertaining. |
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Mark Brierley
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Father and Daughter
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| Tragic impressionistic tale of a little girl whose father rows away on a boat and never comes back. She periodically visits the spot throughout her life until, as an old woman, she discovers his sunken boat, dies, and is reunited as a young girl. Romantic and hopelessly tragic. Wonderfully done to French accordion and piano music. |
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Michael Dudok de Wit
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Mr. Grimby's Video Diary
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| A “video diary” (with all the attendant conventions) of a couple of out of work clay puppets. They bicker and needle, then get jobs on the show Mr. Grimby hates most, the Chums Vig show. Mildly amusing...once. |
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Neil Jack
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copyright 2008 Christopher Earl
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