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    Programme notes for Figures in Focus 2024: Wanderlust

    For this year’s ‘Figures in Focus’ programme, we are going on an adventure. The selected films examine the urge to explore the world, to travel, to feel the delight to roam. Hand in hand with this sense of wanderlust is the restlessness felt by some, the need to escape their situation, or to return to…

    13/11/2024
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    Figures in Focus: Wanderlust at LIAF 2024

    For this year’s ‘Figures in Focus’ programme at the London International Animation Festival, we are going on an adventure. The selected films examine the urge to explore the world, to travel, to feel the delight to roam. Hand in hand with this sense of wanderlust is the restlessness felt by some, the need to escape…

    09/10/2024
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    Animated Shorts at EIFF 2024

    If you’re heading to Edinburgh International Film Festival, on Saturday 17 August, 7pm, catch the animated shorts programme at Inspace, as selected by yours truly. ·      SILENT PANORAMA (Nicolas Piret, Belgium 5’)  ·      TAKO TSUBO (Sorgo Fanny, Pedroza Eva, Austria/Germany 6’)  ·      ON HOLD (Delia Hess, Switzerland 7’)  ·      BUNNYHOOD (Mansi Maheshwari, UK 9’) ·      THE BLEACHER (Adam Wilder, Nicole…

    14/08/2024

  • Invitation to the Academy

    I am over the moon to have been invited to join the Short Films and Feature Animation branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This year 38 professionals were invited in this field. I’m delighted to join artists Tal Kantor, Ülo Pikkov, and Atsushi Wada (who I have had the pleasure of…

    16/07/2024
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    Experimental short ‘The Debutante’ is now online

    Wonderful to share Elizabeth Hobbs’ The Debutante is debuting as a Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere. This experimental short has travelled extensively over the last two years. It has made appearances at 118 screenings, and has been graced with 15 awards. Plus it’s been shortlisted for the European Film Awards and the Academy Awards. The Debutante…

    08/05/2024
  • The Debutante, Elizabeth Hobbs

    Recent good fortune

    At the British Animation Awards ceremony on 7 March, Elizabeth Hobbs’ The Debutante won the award for Best Short Film. What a thrill! Samantha Moore’s Visible Mending, was also nominated for the Audience Award. (I exec produced this short, along with Sue Gainsborough from MediaActive Projects, working with producer Tilley Bancroft.) Visible Mending was also…

    08/03/2024

  • Figures in Focus: Apocalyptic at LIAF 2023

    I’ll be returning to London International Animation Festival on Saturday 25 November for a late night programme of prophetic shorts. Book your tickets here. This cathartic selection of artists’ animations includes films that delve into our darkest fears and our greatest hopes. Whilst we’re living through a time that feels eerily as though we are…

    03/11/2023

  • Animated shorts at Edinburgh International Film Festival

    Wonderful that EIFF returns to Edinburgh this August after a challenging period of uncertainty. I’m so pleased to have been asked by the new Artistic Director Kate Taylor to pull together an animated shorts programme for this year’s festival. Catch the programme on 23 August at the Vue – tickets here. Whilst the McLaren Award…

    13/07/2023
  • The Debutante, Elizabeth Hobbs

    The Debutante features in the 95th Oscars Shortlist

    I am thrilled to share that Elizabeth Hobbs’ film The Debutante has been shortlisted for the Oscars’ Animated Short Film category and will advance to the next round of voting. You can read the Academy’s announcement and discover the other shortlisted films here. You can watch the making of here: And read articles about the Oscar nominees here…

    10/01/2023
  • Impossible Figures and Other Stories II, Marta Pajek

    Introduction to Figures in Focus: The Magical World

    Everyone who loves the art of animation knows that there is some sorcery in its making, conjuring up impossible worlds from one’s imagination onto the screen. Having spent the last few years working on an animation with artist Elizabeth Hobbs, based on The Debutante, a wicked, short story by artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2111), Leonora’s formidable…

    18/11/2022
  • O Black Hole!, Renee Zhan

    Conjuring up Figures in Focus: The Magical World for LIAF 2022

    “I’ve always had access to other worlds. We all do. Because we dream.” Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) I am delighted to be presenting a selection of shorts inspirited by the esoteric art of Leonora Carrington at London International Animation Festival 2022 at the Barbican Centre on Tuesday 29 November – tickets here. Leonora’s work was influenced…

    16/10/2022
  • A Language of Shapes, Samantha Moore

    Describing A Language of Shapes

    In celebration of International Microorganism Day on 17 September, A Language of Shapes, will be shared on Labocine.com. This fairytale about the microscopic world of dysentery, has been created by animated documentary maker Samantha Moore, is based on the scientific research of the Mostowy Lab at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and…

    13/09/2022

  • EIFF programmes announced

    Coming up in August, the Edinburgh International Film Festival returns to the cinema once more. I’ve programmed several screenings of shorts and features and a special behind-the-scenes talk. Excitingly this year will be the first year that the McLaren Award winner is decided by a jury of animation professionals. Book your tickets now: McLaren Animation…

    22/07/2022

  • Watch Samantha Moore’s Treasure

    The story of two lives, separated by 3,000 years, but connected through belief, sacrifice and a priceless treasure. In celebration of the summer solstice, Treasure by Samantha Moore is now available to watch on Vimeo. Treasure is a film by Samantha Moore, produced by Animate Projects commissioned by Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, and funded by BFI NETWORK via Film Hub Midlands,…

    26/06/2022

  • Chado is now online

    Dominica Harrison’s Chado was recently launched online with an interview on Directors Notes and has since been given a Vimeo Staff Pick. “It boasts a beautiful, heartbreaking story which concerns a young child spending a long hot summer at a grandparents before being confronted by her returning mother who brings unsettling news. Harrison’s enchanting illustrative…

    27/11/2021

  • Presenting Figures in Focus – Up Yours! at LIAF 2021

    This edition of London International Animation Festival, I’ll be presenting on the opening night a celebration of radical animators making politically charged work. At a time in the UK when our right to protest is being challenged, this programme reflects on the power of animation to spread a message. The title is a nod to…

    17/10/2021

  • Figures in Focus – Up Yours! introduction

    This year’s programme for LIAF is inspired by the seminal work Oh Bondage Up Yours! written by British, feminist, punk pioneer Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex, and its message to break free from the bondage of a patriarchal and consumerist society. (For anyone in doubt, the expression ‘up yours!’ is a very British retort of…

    17/10/2021

  • Discover Jessica Ashman’s Dawta at Flatpack Festival

    An exciting new audio-visual project by artist animator and musician Jessica Ashman will premiere at the Flatpack Festival Autumn Edition on Saturday 25 September. Book now to witness this sci-fi inspired work live at MAC, Birmingham. Combining experimental animation techniques and live musical performance – guitar and loops from Jessica Ashman, and drums from visual artist Bimpe Alliu – this…

    01/09/2021

  • Where to uncover Samantha Moore’s Treasure

    In Treasure, a metal detectorist’s quest through the Shropshire Marches leads us to a spectacular gold masterpiece, and the leader who sacrifices it for the sake of her child. This glorious, animated adventure, is inspired by the discovery of the amazing  Shropshire sun pendant, which it will be exhibited alongside at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery from 10…

    28/08/2021

  • Chado: Dreaming in Textures in Bath

    Dominica Harrison’s solo exhibition, Chado: Dreaming in Texture will be showing at Bath Artists’ Studios from 6 August to 5 September. There will be a drop-in preview event, 6-8pm on Thursday 5 August, with an opportunity to speak to the artist about the work. The exhibition Chado: Dreaming in Texture was first presented at Leicester Print Workshop from September to November…

    01/08/2021