Animate!: The Digital Curve

70 minutes
Animate!: The Digital Curve

One of two programs devoted to Animate!, which commissions early career animation artists to research and produce work in response to contemporary themes. This program focuses on the use of computer graphics.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2004

Showing in this program

Animal Tragic

Animal Tragic

  • Tim MacMillan
  • United Kingdom, 2003
  • 6 min.

An unsettling take on the 'natural history' of our contemporary urban environment.

Biogenesis

Biogenesis

  • William Latham
  • United Kingdom, 1993
  • 11 min.

Survival of the most aesthetic in a synthetic digital universe of constantly evolving coral forms.

Dad’s Dead

Dad’s Dead

  • Chris Sheperd
  • United Kingdom, 2002
  • 6 min.

A young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past.

End of Restriction

End of Restriction

  • Robert Bradbrook
  • United Kingdom, 1994
  • 5 min.

Village life through the eyes of a boy on a bicycle.

Go West Young Man

Go West Young Man

  • Keith Piper
  • United Kingdom, 1996
  • 3 min.

Father and son resist the stereotypes of race and gender in personal survey of bias and prejudice.

Hypnomart

Hypnomart

  • Joe Magee / Alistair Gentry
  • United Kingdom, 2001
  • 3 min.

It's a digital day out and the mall just got madder.

Kingdom Protista

Kingdom Protista

  • Andrew Kotting
  • United Kingdom, 2000
  • 5 min.

Pond life with attitude gets it on in a digital debauch.

LMX SPIRAL

LMX SPIRAL

  • Richard Wright
  • United Kingdom, 1998
  • 7 min.

A fast-forward ride through the high-rise eighties and lottery-led nineties for the punk in us all.

Season’s Greetings

Season’s Greetings

  • Phil Mulloy
  • United Kingdom, 1999
  • 3 min.

Maverick Mulloy is back with a Christmas card for the crisis.

Soho Square

Soho Square

  • Mario Cavalli
  • United Kingdom, 1992
  • 4 min.

Hot time, summer in the city?

The Nuclear Train

The Nuclear Train

  • Daniel Saul
  • United Kingdom, 2002
  • 9 min.

James flees his house and failing relationship and enters a surreal dreamscape.

What She Wants

What She Wants

  • Ruth Lingford
  • United Kingdom, 1994
  • 5 min.

A woman travelling on the underground is bedevilled with images of desire. What She Wants - wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer – is a film about sex and shopping, the social deployment of sexuality, and capitalism in detumescence.