The Study of animation at the Royal College of Art began in 1963 within the Film and Television Course. Animation became a separate area of study in 0ctober 1985 under the direction of Professors Bob Godfrey and Dick Taylor. The first of these graduates were in 1987. The Animation Department is located within the School of Communication, and the Head of Department is Professor Joan Ashworth who has ran the course since 1994. The range of films shown is from 1983 - 2005.
Jonathan Hodgson, UK, 1983, Beta, 6’02’’
A striking and engaging view of the bizarre rituals and disturbing characters found in Liverpool’s Casblanca Nightclub.
Karen Kelly, UK, 1989, Beta, 7’40’’
A tribute to the South African gold miners.
Run Wrake, UK, 1990, Beta, 4’15’’
An exercise in the juxtaposition of sound, rhythm and moving pictures, intended to provide the viewer with a flowing and surprising 5 minutes. The images were chosen for their suitability.
Stuart Hilton, UK, 1991, Beta, 1’23’’
Nine photographs of a house.
Stuart Hilton, UK, 1991, Beta, 1’20’’
A cyclic process of dark room manipulation and refilming destroy a short strip of found footage to create a decaying corridoor of noise with hilarious results!
Ann Vrombaut, UK, 1992, Beta, 5’32’’
What goes up must come down.
Brian Wood, UK, 1992, Beta, 8’15’’
When a man goes shopping there are more social pitfalls to be avoided then you might expect.
Anthony Hodgson, UK, 1992, Beta, 8’56’’
Hilary worked in an office with a rubber plant and a man whose name she’d forgotten.
Jan Otto Ertesvag, UK, 1996, Beta, 1’
Surge is an interpretation of the gravity between the Moon and Earth. You cannot see gravity. But abstract visuals and sounds can represent this force, which creates the tides on the ocean.
Laurie Proud, UK, 1998, Beta, 2’
A gothic-noir journey through sexual perversion and corruption.
Jenny Bowers, UK, 1999, Beta, 1’
If your house was burning down and you could rescue one thing, what would it be?
Jack Hague, UK, 1999, Beta, 1’
A visual interpretation of an epileptic seizure based on Dostoevsky’s descriptions of his attacks. An attempt to visualise the physical, sensory and physic manifestations of specifically, the pre-seizure state of an epileptic attack. This state called the ‘aura’ was documented in letters by Dostoevsky as an exhilarating transcendant experience.
Richard Kentworthy, UK, 1999, Beta, 9’15’’
"When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in 7 years."
Mark Twain
Marie Paccou, UK, 2000, Beta, 6’
A woman who lives with her childhood.
Celia Galan Julve, UK, 2001, Beta, 2’
Despite his suspicions, he can only go forward.
Gaëlle Denis, UK, 2002, Beta, 6’30’’
Naoko is a complete insomniac. She tried everything to sleep. She works in her own sushi restaurant and she is living close to the Tsukiji Market, the biggest fish market in the world.
Kate Porter, UK, 2002, Beta, 2’
There’s a woman on her bike and she knows you can see.
Matt Abbiss, UK, 2003, Beta, 2’30’’
A priest goes to see God for a little chat.
Hiromitsu Murakami, UK, 2003, Beta, 1’14’’
A small wish of a girl where her teddy bear does her homework.
Sumito Sakakibara, UK, 2003, Beta, 2’15’’
Crow Boy is overlooking at the Fox Kid walking and reveals the past of Kid’s life.
Max Hattler, UK, 2005, Beta, 2’30’’
Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colours and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection.
Ian Gouldstone, UK, 2005, Beta, 8’
A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the internet.
Tony Comley, UK, 2005, Beta, 6’30’’
As the gap between the ground and flight 502 gets smaller, one passenger doesn’t want to sing along.
Suzie Templeton, UK, 2001, 35mm, 5’30’’
A young boy longs for reassurance about how his mother died.
The presentation of the programme was kindly supported by the British Council.