Experience reimagined histories, compelling documentaries and curious visions of our future. Director Abigail Addisonwill present a selection of Animate’s productions which feature a range of animation techniques, including: stop motion, collage, charcoal, digital, ink and paint. Animate Projects works at the intersection of film, art, and animation. Led by producers/curators Abigail Addison (Folkestone) and Gary Thomas (Derby), they have worked with more than 150 artists and animators to produce award-winning experimental moving image work since 2007. Find out more about Animate Projects here.
Works to be shown at Strangelove 2020:
Z, Alan Warburton (2012)
Shift, Max Hattler (2012)
Regarding Gardens, Carolina Melis (2012)
We Are Not Amused, Vicki Bennett (2013)
Tiny People Tribe, Motomichi Nakamura (2013)
Sleepless, Ellie Land (2016)
Immunecraft, Eric Schockmel (2016)
The Foundling, Leo Crane (2018)
144 Units, Ian Gouldstone (2018)
Hold Tight, Jessica Ashman (2018)
I’m OK, Elizabeth Hobbs (2018)
Bloomers, Samantha Moore (2019)
Animate Projects work in collaboration with a range of partners, in a variety of contexts – engaging audiences in the gallery, cinema, museum, public spaces, online and through broadcast. Partners include the Wellcome Trust, The Photographers’ Gallery, QUAD Derby, Channel 4, Vivid Projects Birmingham, Art on the Underground, Phoenix Leicester, BFI Southbank, Flatpack Festival Birmingham, London Sinfonietta, FACT Liverpool, and the National Trust.
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Programme 4:
Japanese Animation Auteurs
curated by Nobuaki Doi
Experience work by four artist animators who have all won the Japan Grand Prix at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, the only animation festival held inside an airport terminal building that is directed by curator and critic Nobuaki Doi.
On a summers day a strange man who teaches Russian at the beach took me to a town. The familiar town looked totally fresh from a different point of view. The man should be there at the beach tomorrow.
Yoko Yuki is an animator, filmmaker and VJ, living in Tokyo. She graduated in 2015 from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Animation. She makes her animation films using various materials. Her films are often based on her real experiences.
Wandering Mouse, Nohara Tsukiji, 2019, 6 mins
On October 11, Tsukiji fish market moved to Toyosu. It was my 24th birthday. On that date, the estimated 10,000 rats suddenly lost their home, their paradise. A mouse sets out on a journey. He doesn't know where to go, but he decides to go anyway.
Nohara Tsukiji was born in Kanagawa on October 11, 1994. In 2017, she graduated from Tokyo Zokei University Department of Animation. Then in 2019, she graduated from the School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Nohara is now working as Research Associate at the Department of Animation, Tokyo Zokei University. She likes the fusion of two and three dimensions and the mouse.
Self-Honest Me, Kazuki Sekiguchi, 2017, 5 mins
One day, the protagonist watches a movie with her friends. She finds the film to be boring and reveals her discontent, but somehow no one agrees with her.
Kazuki Sekiguchi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1991. She is a graduate of the Tama Art University and Tokyo University of the Arts. Kazuki started working as a freelance animation filmmaker from 2018, making animations about animal characters with soft drawn lines and humor.
Autumn from Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons', Atsushi Wada, 2018, 11 mins
Dear Mr. Vivaldi, I apologize for setting your music to animation without your permission. But I wanted to depict "autumn" in my own way with various animals. Thank you for understanding. Yours sincerely.
Atsushi Wada, born in 1980, is a graduate of the Osaka Kyoiku University, Image Forum Institute of Moving Image and Tokyo University of the Arts. His film, In a Pig's Eye (2010) won the Best Film at Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, and Silver Jabberwocky at Etiuda and Anima, and The Great Rabbit (2012) won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and a Special Prize at Hiroshima Festival.
Paul Bush's films challenge the boundaries that separate fiction, documentary and animation. His background in Fine Art is an influence on all his work and this is reflected in its inclusion in art collections and exhibitions as well as cinema distribution and television broadcast. During the 1980's he wrote and directed several short and medium-length films that were critically acclaimed but it was not until the 1990's that his films became widely distributed and he was able to concentrate all his attention on film-making. During the 90's his films were commissioned by all the major broadcasters, won numerous awards and were shown in cinemas, exhibitions, and television all around the world. During this period he usually used single-frame techniques often involving live-action elements. In 1999 he was polled in second place in Creation's list of top directors of animation. In 1996 he set up his company Ancient Mariner Productions to produce his own films and he also directs commercials and his clients have included Panasonic and Philips. In 2003 he was awarded a Nesta fellowship to develop feature films. His first feature Babeldom was completed in 2012.
Bush will present two screenings within our Animation line-up.
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Programme 6:
Astrid Goldsmith presents…
Based in Folkestone in Kent, Mock Duck Studios was set up by animation director Astrid Goldsmith in 2012, after a decade of industry experience as a model maker for film and TV. While making puppets and props for clients including Duracell; Ford Fiesta; Chivas Regal; Leeds Castle; Hammer & Tongs (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy); and a weird commission for the boyband Blue, Astrid completed her debut short film Squirrel Islandin 2016. Squirrel Island went on to compete at many top international film festivals (including Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, LSFF, Aesthetica, and Warsaw Film Festival), and won several prizes for Best Film.
Since then, she has animated a Channel 4 Random Acts film, made a 2-minute monster movie, and created a belligerent stop-motion troll for the Nike ‘Never Ask’ campaign. In 2018, Astrid was selected for the prestigious BFI / BBC4 Animation 2018 talent scheme, designed to find and support the UK’s most exciting emerging animators. Her commissioned film, Quarantine, had its premiere at the BFI Southbank in November, was broadcast on BBC4 in December, and is now available to watch for free on BFI Player (UK only). In February 2019, Astrid was nominated for the Debut Director Award for Quarantine at the Edinburgh TV Festival’s New Voice Awards.
Astrid is currently making her new film, Red Rover – a colonial monster movie set on Mars -which was awarded BFI Network funding in April 2019.
For Strangelove Animation, ‘Squirrel Island’ & ‘Polymer’ will be showcased.
We’re stoked to announce that David Shrigley’s work, ‘one of the UK’s most consistently funny and perceptive visual artists’, will be showcased within Strangelove’s Animation week. Shrigley is a contemporary British artist with an internationally renowned drawing practice. Shrigley’s work is humorous, interspersed with his witty observations and written commentary that satirizes everyday life and awkward interactions. He works loosely and improvisationally: “It’s not the kind of drawing where you’re trying to get their eyes in the right place, you’re just trying to tell somebody something as directly as possible,” he explains. “It’s somewhere between handwriting and drawing. But then again there are also certain rules to what I do, like I’m not allowed to re-draw or anything and it just is what it is.” His illustrations has been featured as album art for musicians like David Byrne, Franz Ferdinand, and Bonnie Prince Billy, as well as in the form of large-scale public sculptures, published books, and hand-drawn animations. Born on September 17, 1968 in Macclesfield, United Kingdom, Shrigley went on to study environmental art at the Glasgow School of Art. Today, his works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, among others. He lives and works in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
