Category Archives: Animation

Nominated for Best Short at the 2020 British Animation Awards, Samantha Moore’s fabric animated documentary, inspired by the sounds of industrial sewing machines, tells the story of Manchester lingerie factory Ella And Me.

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Afraid of intimacy? Beset by anxiety? Searching for some kind of meaning? Self-isolate no more – the School Of Life knows how you feel. To wit:

“We are, a lot of us, a great deal sadder, more anxious, more incomplete and more restless than we really need to be because of something very large that is missing from our lives. What’s worse, we don’t even know what this thing is and how much we crave it, because we don’t have the right concepts, experience or encouragement to help us locate it. What we long for and are slowly dying without is: community.

Tough times ahead, so.

Previously: No One Cares

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A Royal College Of Art, London graduation short by Natasza Cetner inspired by the true story of Nigel, the lonely gannet of Mana Island who fell hopelessly in love with a concrete statue.

His tragic tale of idealisation and delusion shows us a reflection of our own misconceptions in love.

Mmf.

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A short – inspired by (and rendered on) Herman Melville’s classic tale by French animator Marie Paccou – with a twist. To wit:

For obvious budget restrictions, the Pequod has been turned into a kind of launch boat and you have to imagine all the crew hidden in the hold.

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