18th October 2009 Lines and Scratches
This programme featured a selection of animated films that explore the communicative and expressive energies of lines, marks, scratches and drawings within narrative and non-narrative contexts. The evening also included a panel discussion with selected filmmakers George Gendi, Matt Abbiss, Belle Mellor, Will Bishop-Stephens and
Pedro Serrazina who spoke about the contexts of their work methodology.

15th November 2009 The Animated Documentary
The Animated Documentary is a genre of film, which combines the genres of animation and documentary. This programme showcased contemporary examples of the animated documentary that covers a wide range of animated techniques used to depict real-life stories based on interviews, articles, journals, participant art works and experiences of the filmmakers. Professor Bella Honess Roe interviews filmmakers Veselina Dashinova, George Gendi, Christoph Steger, Tim Webb.

20th December 2009 Bob Godfrey
Roland Frederick Godfrey (born 27 May 1921) is a distinguished British animator whose career spans more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children’s cartoon series Roobarb and Custard. The evening included an introduction to Bob Godfrey by Jim Walker, Senior Lecturer in Visual Theory at University for the Creative Arts Maidstone.

17th January 2010 The Animated Metaphor
This programme hopes to help re-think and re-invent the viewing of animated films. In extending Trevor Whittock’s (1990) ideas on metaphor in film, it explores the very notion of the animated film as being metaphoric. The programme introduce films by helping viewers to read the mechanisms of metaphors, metonym, synecdoche, object correlative etc that might shed light on the meaning making processes of animation, followed by discussion with filmmaker Martin Pickles.

21st February 2010 Authorship: written and Drawn
While writing is an important aspect of most auteurist live action cinema, mark making and movement are additional determinants of authorial ownership in an animation film. The fifth episode of Animated Worlds look at collaborations between writers, graphic novelists and animation filmmakers and their roles and authorial contributions in the creation of the films screened. Jim Walker speaks to Stephen Appleby, Linda Mccarthy and Will Bishop Stephens.

21st March 2010 Experimental Animation
The term Avant-garde meaning “advance guard” or “vanguard” is used to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo. With influences coming as vitally from art, music and literature as from technology, and with experimental filmmakers defining their own paths of exploration and often crossing paths, Avant-garde in Animation filmmaking is a vast area and difficult to define.
German abstract animation filmmaker, Max Hattler tracks the progress of experimental and abstract animation from the 1920s to 2010, with a selection of films that illustrate the genre.

18th April 2010 The Channel 4 Factor
For much of the 1990s Britain regularly walked off with the world’s major animation awards, including the Oscar, Cartoon d’Or and top festival prizes. Most of the winning films were commissioned by television channels – and most of these by Channel 4. For this special edition of ‘Animated Worlds’ Clare Kitson (commissioning editor at Channel 4 from 1989 to 1999) spoke to the audience about animation’s fluctuating fortunes within the Channel. The evening also included book signing and sales.

16th May 2010 The Films of Yuri Norstein
The 8th episode of Animated worlds included the screening of all of Yuri Norstein’s films to date. Animation filmmaker Martin Pickles introduced the audience to the life and works of Yuri Norstein. For information on Martin Pickles go to: www.martinpickles.com

20th June 2010 A Celebration of Cult
A Cult film is one that has acquired a highly devoted but specific group of fans. Cult films emerge mainly from the world of Independent, B-grade and low budget cinema and generally tend to fail commercially on initial release. However, they have also sometimes been produced within Hollywood. While there are several types of Cult films, all with their own reasons for attaining cult status, what they all have in common is their ability to attract and maintain a small group of obsessive fans. Animation filmmakers Celia Galan Julve, David Retamero Lopez and Edward Suckling discuss their work with the audience.

18th July 2010 Goodbye Mr. Christie by Phil Mulloy
Good Bye Mr. Christie depicts the Christies who live in Wellington Green, a picturesque English village with a church, a pond and acricket pitch. Outwardly Mr Christie is a perfect gentleman. Inwardly he is a selfish arrogant monster. When the whole world sees him on television having sex with a French sailor, his life is changed forever. Prepare to be shocked. This film will take you from the leafy garden suburbs to hell and beyond. Q&A session with Phil Mulloy

Photographs by Suzanne Ludwig
www.susanne-ludwig.de

The British Dental Association Museum was one of six medical history museums in a participatory film making scheme. Medicine at the Movies, funded by NIACE (The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education), seeks to engage different groups in communicating by film.

As part of the project, Bhavesh Hindocha, a live-action filmmaker and Pooja Pottenkulam, animation filmmaker, led a group of 7 mentally disabled participants through the making of their own live action and animation films.

The final outcome is a 15 minute documentary that records their experience of the workshops held at the British Dental Association. The animation shorts are included within the longer film.

Feliz, coloured cut-glass animation on paper, colour, 36 seconds, 2010
Savaas, paper cut out animation, colour, 30 seconds, 2010

Screenings
Medicine at the Movies Premier, Thakray Museum, Leeds, Saturday, 13th March, 2010

Related Links
www.bda.org/museum
www.elfrida.com
www.loudminority.co.uk

A group of 6 year old primary school students were asked to each think of a feeling that they could not reavel to each other. They then created characters out of plasticine and pipe cleaners. After the characters were created, students paired up and were asked to use their characters to express the secret emotion that they had chosen, using stop-motion animation. Once the first of the pair had expressed their emotion, the second student would react to the first student’s emotion with their own character and secret emotion.

The still and the two films included are ‘Nauseous vs Nauseous’ and ‘Tired vs Happy’.

Screenings
Osmani Primary School, Tower Hamlets

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Synopsis
The Village of Moo is kept standing because the inhabitants speak Moomoo. If they stop speaking Moomoo, the village would crumble and fall. A little boy realises that his grandfather has died and that he is the last person in Moo. Cracks begin to appear on the walls…

About the Project
This film was written in collaboration with Ambjorn Elder for the 2009 Commonwealth Awards. The theme for the Vision Awards was Global Challenges and The New Generation. The story was based on disappearing languages and how the new generation played an important role in keeping disappearing languages alive.

Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the languages spoken on Earth- many of them not yet recorded, may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture and the natural environment.

The images below are a few sketches from the project.

Screenings and awards
2009, Highly commended Prize, The Commonwealth Vision Awards ceremony, London

About the Project
The videos were shot using Sony HD camera and edited with After effects and Final Cut Pro

Credits
direction and post-production
Pooja Pottenkulam
production assistant
Joe Pottenkulam

The images below are a few sketches from the project.

Screenings and awards
2008, Armaec

About the Project
This video was edited using after effects and Final Cut Pro

The images below are a few sketches from the project.

Screenings and awards
2008, none yet

External links
www.creative-partnerships.com
www.designheroine.co.uk

About the Project
Creative Partnerships is the UK Government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of young people across England. They support thousands of innovative long-term partnerships, between schools and creative professionals- from architects to scientists to multimedia developers and artists.

As part of one of their projects, Design Heroine, an architecture firm, worked with children in Stormont School, Hackney, East London. Through various creative execrsies, the children were asked to illustrate changes they would make to their school to make it more fun.

Walking On Water With Fish In It is a animated film illustrates a conversation between two students about one of their ideas for an underground fish tank. The conversation was first recorded on a DAT recorder and then the film was animated using paper cut-out characters from a collage created by them.

The film was used as documentation material by Design Heroine and Creative Partnerships.

Cast
Mother: Vanessa Mildenberg
http://web.me.com/vanessamildenberg/Site/VM.html
Child: Sky Robinson

About the Project
The Royal College of Art is the world’s only wholly post-graduate degree course in the field of Art and Design. Nap was directed and animated independently as a graduation film at the RCA. During the graduation show, licensing rights of the film were sold to Channel 4 for a period 5 years.
The images below are a few sketches from the project.

Screenings and awards
2007-2012, Three Minute Wonder screening on Channel 4, UK
2009, Videoholica Film Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
2008, Krok Festival, Russia
2008, Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia
2007, Roxy Bar and Screen, London, UK
2007, Institute of Contemporary arts, London, UK
2007, Muestra International de Cine de Animation, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
2007, Exposures UK Student film Festival, Manchester, UK
2007, EmergeandSee, Berlin, Germany
2007, Special Mention, Tricky Women, Vienna, Austria
2007, Vienna Independent Short Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
2007, Second Prize, Monstra De Sagunt, Valencia, Spain
2007, Animated Dreams, Black Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
2006, Generation, Royal College of Art Degree show, London

External links

http://load.mtv.co.uk

About the project
These fillers created for MTV Load Europe. This project was directed and animated independently. Below are a few sketches from the project.

About the project
2005, MTV Europe

About the Project
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is the world’s only wholly post-graduate degree course in the field of Art and Design. Drawing Class was made during my first year of my Animation MA at the RCA. It was then sent to Israel as part of a UNICEF project called the Big Small People Project, that explored Children’s rights
through the medium of animation. Subsequently the film has been aired on National television in Israel, India, Hungary, Germany and the UK.

The project was made directed and animated independently. The images below are a few refined sketches from the project.

Screenings and awards
2008, Best Student animation prize, China International Cartoon and Digital Arts Festival, Beijing, China
2007, Platform International Animation Festival, Portland, USA
2007, Animae Caribe: Caribbean Animation Festival, Trinidad and Tobago
2006, Animated Dreams, Black Film Fesival, Tallinn, Estonia