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British Animation Awards (1-2)

VOL.1 (Running time: approx 92 mins)

1.Scat, The Stringalong Cat
Dir: Ian Sachs | 2:45
Scat the Stringalong Cat goes fishing… With no dialogue, the sound effects and music tell the story, set the mood and allow communication between the characters.
A shutterbug Production for Boxcar Productions | 1995

2.Butcher’s Hook
Dir: Simon Pummell | 6:30
A miniature horror film, which explores the imagery of medical and scientific experimentation, using digital technology to create bodies from multi-layered and translucent film images.
Produced by Koninck for Channel4 | 1995

3.The Wooden Leg
Dir: Darren Doherty & Nick Smith | 7:00
A young girl’s life is changed by a gift that develops a special love for her, a love she only sees when it is destroyed by jealousy of another.
Produced at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design | 1994

4.Many Happy Returns
Dir: Marjut Rimminen | 8:23
The disjointed debris of our childhood state still lurks within our adult consciousness and can act as a painful, disruptive force.
Produced by Tricky Films Ltd for Channel4  | 1997
www.trickyfilms.com/films/

5.The Wrong Brothers
Dir: Steven Weston | 5:00
A tongue-in-cheek look at the lifelong attempts of twin brothers Orville and Wilbur Wrong – contemporaries of those other famous brothers – to become pioneers of aviation.
Produced by Whitehorse Films & Bermuda Shorts for Channel4 | 1995

6.Jumping Joan

Dir: Petra Freeman | 8:00
Inspired by the children’s nursery rhyme of the same name. A series of dreamlike episodes in the day and imagination of a little girl.
Produced by Whitehouse Films Ltd for animate!/Channel4 | 1994
www.animateonline.org

7.Reputations: Title sequence
Dir: Philip Hunt & John Kennedy | 0:30
Title sequence for BBC TV documentary series ‘Reputations’.
Produced by Pizazz Pictures for the BBC | 1994
www.studioaka.co.uk

8.BBC2: Campaign Idents  
BBC| 0:35
BBC2 idents in which the ‘2’ takes on a variety of roles; a pouncing creature, a pin in a bowling alley, a cuckoo clock, a spy, a sneeze and roaming a corridor.
Produced by BBC Presentation | 1994

9.Ah Pook is Here
Dir: Philip Hunt | 6:00
In the scattered remains of a burnt out cosmos sits ‘Ah Pook the Destroyer’, last God of panic, debating with his Alter ego the trembling balance held between life and death. ‘When I become Death, Death is the seed from which I grow.’ – William Burroughs.
Produced at the Filmakademie Baden-Wurttenbug | 1994

10.Feeling My Way
Dir: Jonathan Hodgson | 5:18
A journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and sub-conscious mind.
Produced by Sherbet for Channel4/Arts Council England/Animate! | 1994
www.sherbet.co.uk | www.animateonline.org

11.Smarties: Smartipants
Dir: Luis Cook | 0:30
Produced by Aardman Animations for J. Walter Thompson | 1995
Courtesy of Aardman & JWT

12.Hilary
Dir: Anthony Hodgson | 9:00
Hilary worked in an office with a rubber plant and a man whose name she’d forgotten, and she lived with her mother and her mother’s father who was 76 and deaf and who secretly ate dog food. Although it wasn’t much of a secret…
Produced at the Royal College of Arts | 1994
www. Animation.rca.ac.uk

13.Martell: Legend
Dir: Pat Gavin | 1:00
Produced by Hibbert Ralph Animation for Ogilvy & Mather (Hong Kong) | 1995
www.hra-online.com

14.Terrence Higgins Trust: Knobs In Space
Dir: Luis Cook & Dave Alex Riddett | 1:00
Produced by Aardman Animations for Simons Palmer Denton Clemmow | 1995
Courtesy of Aardman Animations www.aardman.com and Terrence Higgins Trust www.tht.org.uk

15.Mr Jessop
Dir: Brian Wood | 8:15
When a man goes shopping, there are more social pitfalls to be avoided than you might expect.
Produced at the Royal College of Arts | 1994
www. Animation.rca.ac.uk

16.Triangle
Dir: Erica Russell | 8:00
The passion of two young lovers and another woman, the film makes powerful use of music and artwork styles that range from classical drawing to pure abstraction.
Produced by Gingco for Channel4 | 1994

17.Sticky Business
Dir: Ed Taylor | 7:30  
Ed and friends have a big night out, completely unware that meanwhile, some of his artistic creations are having a big night in!

Vol.2 (Running time: approx 92 mins)

1. Gourmand
Dir: Andrew Higgins | 5:57
A hungry man arrives to eat well at a top restaurant. The cuisine, though, is in particularly high demand.
Produced at the Royal College of Art | 1998
www.animation.rca.ac.uk

2. The Little Princess’ Birthday Party
Dir: Jim Lefevre | 5:30  
Once upon a time… How does a story go?
Produced at the Edinburgh College of Art | 1997

3. Bird Becomes Bird
Dir: Lucy Lee | 6:00
A little girl is captured by a bird on the cracking ice.
Produced at the National Film & Television School | 1998

4. 3 Ways To Go
Dir: Sarah Cox | 4:16
About the last moments of three lives. A range of filmic techniques are employed to illustrate each situation.
Produced by Picasso Pictures of Channel4/Arts Council England/Animate! | 1998
www.worldofarthurcox.com

5. Staggerings
Dir: Peter Collis | 6:00
As a slow, relentless state of transformation persists across the screen, elements of natural world are cut up and re-ordered, using a mix of traditional photography and filmmaking and new computer technologies.
Produced by Peter Collis for Arts Council England Hi-Tech Project & Channel4 | 1998

6. Swag
Dir: Daniel Edwards | 4:00
A bank robbery goes wrong…
Produced at Staffordshire University of Art & Design | 2001

7. Death and the Mother
Dir: Ruth Lingford | 11:00
A sick child is taken by death. The mother follows and overcomes obstacles and ordeals to win back her child. But the greates test for her love is still to come.
Produced by Ownbrand Animation for Channel4 | 1998

8. Stanley
Dir: Suzie Templeton | 7:00
While his wife wreaks violence and death in the kitchen, Stanley finds life and love in a beautiful cabbage he is growing in his back yard.
Produced at Surrey Institute of Art & Design | 2000

9. Unison: Ant
Dir: Jerry Hibbert
Produced by Hibbert Ralph Animation Ltd fro BMP, DDB Needham
www.hra-online.com
Courtesy of Unison www.unison.org.uk

10. Brisk: Rocky
Dir: Ken Lidster
Produced by Loose Moose Ltd for J Waltr Thompson, New York
www.loosemoose.net

11. Dairylea Dunkers: Dino Time
Dir: Ray Harryhausen & Mark Nunnally
Produced by Bermuda Shorts
www.bermudashots.com

12. Fisherman’s Friend: Contraption
Dir: Stephen Weston | 0:30

13. Flatworld
Dir: Daniel Greaves | 30:00
A visually stunning, humorous and exciting animated adventure featuring Matt Phlatt, his fat cat Geoff, and Chips the fish. When flatworld collides with flipside, Matt must save the day.

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