EARLY ANIMATION & SHORT FILMS
SHARING THE SAME SHADE: 2007 (Moving-Image Designer)
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Triple screen projection for the Holland Festival: a series of ultra-slow motion video portraits of the dancers Adi & Shani Kesten to counterpoint their performance as part of the Veenfabriek Music Theatre production Sharing the Same Shade.
Veenfabriek Music Theatre for The Holland Festival 2007
STOP FOR A MINUTE: 2000 (Writer, Director)
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A visual meditation of just how long a minute lasts, for my newborn baby and his great-grandmother. A one minute film for Web and TV.
FilmFour and Dazed and Confused Productions
Broadcast FilmFour Channel.
Streaming at www.stopforaminute.com
Screenings in Public space Large-scale urban screens in Leicester Square London & Time Square NYC
STORY BROWSER (Snow White): 2000 (Installation Artist)
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An interactive digital model of the deep narrative structure of Snow-White story: the work allows users to view many variations of the narrative. The work is the result of Artist in Residence at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas, Brussels (2000) in collaboration with students.
Exhibited as a stand-alone installation at:
Sint-Lukasgalerij Brussels 2000
BLINDED BY LIGHT: 2000 (Writer, Animator)
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A blind man receives corneal transplants. He is fifty years old. For the first time since he was ten months old he has complete functional use of his eyes. What does he see? This is the story of a man’s struggle to learn to see. The film is a dramatic monologue with special effects to take us into the world of the newly sighted man
Arts Council ANIMATE commission for Channel Four Television
Selected Festival Awards, Nominations & Screenings
Visions Festival, Montreal ‘Best International Video’
Broadcast Channel 4
Exhibition as Installation Barbican Gallery London Animation: a Passionate Obsession
RAY GUN FUN: 1997 (Co-writer, Director, Animator)
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A little boy plays with a magical ray gun, and finds himself trapped in worlds within worlds. Digital VFX animation in a live action world. Written with the science fiction author M. John Harrison.
Finetake & Hot Property for Channel Four Television
Broadcast Channel 4 Television UK
Spanish Public Television
Selected Festival Awards, Nominations & Screenings
Nominated British Animation Awards 2000
The British Short Film Festival, 1999
Locarno Film Festival 1998
Edinburgh International Film Festival 1998
Sitges Film Festival 1998
London Film Festival 1998
Rotterdam IFF 1999
Positano Film Festival ‘Auteur Shorts for TV’ programme
ICA London April 1999
NFTVS / BAFTA Digital Futures Symposium
Krakow Short Film Festival 1999
Annecy Int. Anim. Festival 1999
HEARTACHE: 1996 (Writer, Director)
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A short musical drama about love and tattoos. Made as a narrative promo for the QUEEN music track Too Much Love Will Kill You
Hot Property for Queen Productions/British Film Institute
Selected Festival Awards, Nominations & Screenings
Opening film 1996 Venice Film Festiva
Cannes Film Festival screening as part of portmanteau feature of Queen music films Made in Heaven.
EVOLUTION: 1996 (writer, director)
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Portrait of the performance artist Stelarc & his robotic '3rd Hand' from a Japanese medical lab. Made as a narrative promo for the QUEEN music track This Could Be Heaven
Hot Property for Queen Productions/British Film Institute
Broadcast Maximum rotation' schedule MTV
Selected Museum Screenings
Kaaitheatre Studio's/Studiowerk, Brussels, 1996 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
BUTCHERS HOOK: 1995 (Animator, Co-writer)
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A miniature horror film, which explores the imagery of medical and scientific experimentation to create an animated baroque revenge drama: the reckoning between a taxidermist and his animals. Written with the science fiction author Simon Ings.
Koninck Studios for Channel Four Television
Broadcast Channel 4 Televions UK Digital Passions (including a 'making of ‘ documentary)
NPS Dutch Television The best of European Computer films.
Selected Festival Awards, Nominations & Screenings
British Animation Awards: ‘Best Use of New Technology’ (Winner)
Rencontres Internationales Art Cinema-Video Ordinateur, Paris 1998
Selected Museum Screenings
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1998 Loplop / re/presents: The im/pulse to see
Kaaitheatre Studio's/Studiowerk, Brussels, 1996 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies)
DIGITAL BABY: 1995 (Installation Artist)
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This project grew out of the invitation to apply for an Arts Council Research Bursary for research into creating artist's moving image work in co-operation with commercial post-production houses. The bursary I was awarded paired me with Moving Picture Company in Soho London. The research work was undertaken in co-operation with their producers and artists.
A group of perfect babies floating in an infinite black space. Their stretching and bobbing motions are in an infinite loop. However many clones are made, every digital baby remains an original. Digital 3D animation created as a test for an installation.
The artist for Channel 4/Arts Council
Broadcast Channel 4 Televions UK Digital Passions (including a 'making of ‘ documentary)
ROSE RED: 1994 (Animator, Co-writer)
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A science fiction short drama. A man's recurring dreams and an investigation into a security breach at a secret Virtual Reality project: Two threads that lead to a disturbing climax.
Koninck Studios for British Film Institute
Broadcast Channel Four Television as part of The Shooting Gallery
UK Distribution BFI Film and Video Distribution
Selected Festival Awards, Nominations & Screenings
Panorama Section Berlin Film Festival
London Film Festival, 1994
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy, Thriller & SciFi Films 1995
Tampere Film Festival, 1995
BLOND ECKBERT: 1994 (Designer, Animator)
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A 15 minute animated film designed to allow a performer on stage and an animated version of herself to interact as the action develops. The film depicts Bertha, the heroine of Judith Weir's opera Blond Eckbert, making her way through a forest of woodcut style heavy black and white lines.
Projected within English National Opera production directed by Tim Hopkins, premiered in London on 21 April 1994.
TEMPTATION OF SAINTHOOD: 1993 (Writer, Director, Animator)
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The story of a man who believed God was changing him into a woman so he could save the world. Daniel Paul Schreber was a famous case study of Sigmund Freud, and famous as the author of the finest autobiography of the psychotic experience written Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken (Memoirs of My Nervous Illness–1903.
Koninck Studios for Channel Four Television /Arts Council of England
Broadcast Channel 4 (as part of the series Out of the Blue)
SBS Australia
ZDF Germany
Arte/La Sept France
Selected Festival Awards, Nominations & Screenings
Main Prize Oberhausen International Kurzfilmtage 1993
Special Jury Commendation British short film Festival 1994
Prize for Best Short Film Fantasporto International Film Festival 1994
Special Prize Mediopolis Berlin Videofest 1994
3rdICA Biennale of Independent Film and Video, London 94/5
European Media Art Festival (Osnabruck) Tour 1994
Copenhagen Film & Video Workshop Festival 1994
Selected Museum Screenings
Kaaitheatre Studio's/Studiowerk, Brussels, 1996 Extinct Anatomies
Tate Gallery, London, 1993 This Side of the British Channel: British Video 1990-1993
The Tate Gallery 1994 Key video works of the 90s
CUPID: 1992 (Designer, Animator)
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MTV Ident Sequence. A bird flies towards a beating heart. It plunges its beak into the heart. Blood gushes out - to be captured in a glass bowl - in the shape of the MTV logo.
Koninck Studios produced Title Sequence for MTV Europe
STAIN: 1992 (Designer, Animator)
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Created for the slot "one minute television" on the Late Show. The medieval dance of death re-invented.
Koninck for BBC Late Show/Arts Council of England
Broadcast BBC Late Show
SBS Australia
Arte/La Sept France
Selected Festival Awards, Nominations & Screenings
British Film Institute for the Centenary of Cinema program
Festival do Minuto, Sao Paolo, 1993
Viper 92, Luzern
SECRET JOY OF FALLING ANGELS: 1991 (Writer, Animator)
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An 11 Minute re-telling of the annunciation story which blurs the sacred and the profane. The film combines many different optical film techniques with an exploration of drawing the human body which breeds Mickey Mouse with Michelangelo.
Koninck Studios for Channel Four Teleivision
Broadcast Channel Four Television Dazzling Image Season
Channel Four Television Four-mations Secret Passions Season
DVD Distribution BAA – Desire & Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious
UK release British Film Institute Film and Video Distribution
Selected Festival Awards, Nominations & Screenings
Oberhausen International Kurzfilmtage 1992 Grand Prix
Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart1992 Best Experimental Film
European Media Cartoon D'Or (Nomination)
Copenhagen Film and Video Workshop Festival, 1994
Leipzig International Documentary and Animation Festival, 1993
Pandemonium, Cardiff, 1994
Melbourne International Film Festival, June 1992
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, 2002
Ottawa International Animation Festival 2004 Words in Motion
BFI Symposium Animating the Unconscious Feb 2006
National Film School's Passport to Cinema series at the National Film Theatre 2009
Nederlands Instituut voor Animatiefilm (NIAf) Animatie Binnenstebuiten 2009
Fantoche Animation Festival Images of human beings in the animation film 2009
EYE Film Museum Shadow Boxing (William Kentridge Some Context) 2015
EYE Film Museum Simon Pummell Shadow Drawings, Trick films & Science Fictions: a Retrospective 2016
Taichung International Animation Festival (TIAF) 2018
Selected Museum Screenings Museum Boymans van Beuningen Rotterdam 1998 Loplop / re/presents: The im/pulse to see
ICA, London Art and Animation Symposium 1998
Harvard University VES Carpenter Centre Gallery 2007
SURFACE TENSION: 1986 (Writer, Director, Animator)
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Intercutting live action footage with animation, a depiction of the possible memories, repressions and fears of the leading character. The animated sections are monologues by a male figure drawn to highlight the tensions between rigid and fluid body structures, skeleton and flesh.
Graduation Film from the Royal College of Art Masters Program: Animation, Audiovisual and Film Production
Selected Festival Awards, Nominations & Screenings
London Film Festival 1986 Mari Kutna Most Original Animation Award
Thames Television Supporting New Talent Bursary
UK Release British Film Insitute Film and Video Distribution
DVD Release Animation is 25 Years Royal College of Art, Best Films, 2010
