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British Animation Awards 5
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Available from British Animation Awards
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The Girl and the Horse
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Another version of Jessie’s story from Toy Story 2, about a girl who loves a horse, only to abandon it for womanly conceits. She develops a hole in her abdomen, realizes her emptiness, tries to fill it with birthday cake, then becomes despondent. The horse fills her up (wink wink, nudge nudge). Strident Windham Hilly piano accompanying simple smudgy black figures on tan canvas with occasional photographic overlays. |
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Rebecca Manley
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Taps
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| Sparse pencil drawings of three faucets on white background. No music, just effects. Two faucets (okay, taps) groove on rhythmic drips and ostracize the third when it tries to join in (oh, those cruel plumbing cliques). It rains, depressing all three. Mediocre at best. |
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Matthew Gravelle
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How Mermaids Breed
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Odd computer animation about mermaids knocking a man out of his boat, dragging him to the sea floor, and extracting his sperm with a machine (where can I get one of those?) to fertilize their eggs. Characters are like roughly carved stone blocks—nearly monochromatic with blues and greys. No music. Interesting airbrushed hourglass and mermaids fluffing water like sheets to knock the boat over. |
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Joan Ashworth
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Survey
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| Inventive and unusual look at structures near a seaside. Highly rhythmic soundtrack accompanies multi-image geometric loops of buildings and wires. Very hard to describe, but quite wonderful. |
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Joe King
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Gifted
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| A student struggles with letters, lagging behind the others. She (?) discovers reading, grows wings of pages, and flies away. Appears to be done with chalk on a blackboard. Distorted impressionistic soundtrack. |
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Emily Mantell
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Takuskanskan
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| Smudgy monochromatic scenes of dark seal-like creatures making nature. Very much like a creation myth—washing clouds, splitting ladders into antlers, etc. Acoustic guitar picking throughout. Pretty. Boring. |
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Selina Cobley
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Extn. 21
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| Paranoid fever dream of surveillance. Extremely Quay Brothersy beautiful decrepit urban environment with an agent—real or not—trying to reach a Mr. Langley (get it?). Perfect Quay puppet replication except with an actual human head. Impressive and oppressive (as well as expressive). Quite good. |
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Lizzie Oxby
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Tennets: body armour
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| Another Aardman CSI beer advert (see British Animation Awards 4), this time featuring “body armour” (otherwise known as “cans”). Murder some more tonight |
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Darren Walsh
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NSPCC: cartoon
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| Gruesome mix of live action abusive father with cartoon cliché child. Dad beats the shit out of the kid, who turns real in the end. Real kids don’t bounce back. |
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Frank Budgen, Russell Brooke
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Cavern Club
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| PSA from the Terrance Higgins Trust promoting safe sex. Uncut dick tries to get into the Cavern Club (get it?), but is turned away because he’s not properly dressed. Music is ”Shaft” - ha ha. |
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Sam Morris
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Butterfly
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| A trippy kaleidoscopic visual fantasy using butterfly forms. Slow, drony music accompanies slowly evolving, impossibly complex patterns of patterns, intercut with blurry isolated shot of a girl spinning around a pole. |
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Glenn Marshall
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Killing Time at Home
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| Short form AI. Bored, wired homebody orders last available on-line pal from DisposableFriend.com: Zinc Dude (activated by immersion in zinc). They pal around, ponging it up, until guy gets bored and throws him in the closet with the other discarded disposable friends. Alty-emo acoustic guitar-driven score and lots of text details. |
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Neil Coslett
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Little Things
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| Flat World (British Animation Awards 2) maker’s rhapsody on annoyances. Similar look, but not so elaborate. Vignettes of annoying physical humor (lights that go off, alarm clocks that change weather, whistlers, etc) that eventually overlap in humorous ways. Very funny. |
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Daniel Greaves
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Dad's Dead
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| Strange, dark, disturbing multimedia piece about fragments of memories revealing the truth about a falsely incarcerate man’s friend Johnny, who is an abusive, manipulative fuck. First he lies about his dad being dead, then abuses a blind guy and sets his place on fire. Then, after his friend goes up the river, Johnny insinuates himself into his friend’s mother’s life. Relentlessly cruel. |
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Chris Sheppard
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To Have and To Hold
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| Sketchy, abstract, headless women tote penii around like pets. Set to a stuttery, loopy soundtrack, film is black ink on a vignetted beige background. Humorous, but a little thin. |
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Emily Mantell
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Fish Never Sleep
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| Minimal black and red (mostly) ink animation of a Japanese woman who works at a conveyer belt sushi place and has insomnia for two weeks. Sleepless again, she rides out on her scooter, crashes off a bridge, and is processed in a sushi factory. Whatever. It’s got that slightly Japanese-Brazilian axis music going on. |
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Gaelle Denis
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How to Cope with Death
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| Traditional animation tale of an old woman sleeping in front of a staticky television. Death—in the form of a bony Alien—comes for her. She springs in ninja Granny mode and kick’s Death’s ass. Nicely detailed with a carefully controlled palette. Amusing and short. |
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Ignacio Ferreras
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copyright 2008 Christopher Earl
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