Hayley Morris, Vimeo Staff Pick and Promo News

Hayley Morris' stop motion music video for Iron and Wine's track 'Joy' has continued to recieve great responses since release. The music video was recently chosen as Vimeo Staff Pick and last week posted up on Promo News!

Nice work Hayley, click through the image to watch the music video.

Tom Jobbins screening at BUG 37

Music Video 'We Can Be Ghosts Now' by Hiatus & Shura directed, designed and animated by Film Club director Tom Jobbins is being screened tomorrow night, Thursday 23rd May at sold out event, BUG 37 at the BFI, Southbank, the screening is at 8.45 PM.

The music video was chosen as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Click through to watch on Vimeo. 

Toms short film 'My Face Is In Space' was a Vimeo Staff Pick last week AND was selected as Short Of The Week....GOOD WORK TOM! Click through to watch on Vimeo. 

Hayley Morris' stop-motion music video featured on Dragonframe

Hayley Morris' stop-motion music video for Iron and Wine's track "Joy" has become a great success, being featured on highly respectable websites, such as, Motionographer.

She has now been interviewed and featured on the blog for the industries stop-motion software, Dragon.

Below is the music video, full feature from Dragonframe, and the making of.  

The music video

The making of

Film Club in New York

The Film Club team are back home in London, still a bit jet lagged from our New York trip. It was great to have our New York office as a base too. We are all very excited about the fantastic reception at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere screening of ' Kiss The Water', the documentary feature film which includes 10 minutes of beautiful oil paint animation by Film Club director Em Cooper.

We had a great time in New York and hope to be visiting our New York th1ng group office more often.

Heres a few of our favourite pictures.

LEFT: Manhattan from Williamsburgh Bridge
RIGHT: Manhattan from Hotel room window at 4am 

LEFT: Empire State from roof top of  230 5th Avenue

LEFT: Em Cooper presents Kiss The Water, director Eric Steel and producer Kate Swan with stills from animation of the film.
RIGHT: Kiss The Water team after the Premiere. (From Left) Kate Swan- Producer, Sabine Krayenbeul- Editor,
Em Cooper - Animation Director (Film Club), Eric Steel - Director, Sue Loughlin - Animation Producer (Film Club) 

LEFT: After Kiss The Water screening
(From Left) Sue Loughlin - Film Club. Em Cooper - Film Club, Carolyn Hill  - From Carolyn Reps (Film Club New York sales rep)
RIGHT: After dinner outside 'Lucien' on 1st Avenue
(From Left) Sue Loughlin, Hayley Morris - Film Club director, Amanda Rosengurgh - From Carolyn Reps,
Andrea Torres - From th1ng New York

Audience goes wild for Kiss the Water at the World Premiere

“Kiss the Water: ‘a combination of being in a dream and eating dessert” – guess who said that? None other than Mr Jerry Seinfeld at the World Premiere of this great film at The Tribeca Film Festival on Monday. 

So pleased that so many people in the audience said that the Film Club animation by Em Cooper was fabulous, which makes my job of talent matching all the more rewarding. Eric Steel, the Kiss The Water director,is really pleased that he went with our suggestion for animation style. The audience just loved Kiss the Water not only Jerry. Uber designer Ralph Lauren was there too and everyone was talking about the animation afterwards. 

It was so cool to hear Jerry asking questions at the end. Three more screenings to go with the press and industry one tonight – these are the people we really want to impress, so we hope they love it too. 

Check out his picture after the screening here!

Film Club flying the flag for British film in NYC!

World-class British Film is something we want you to shout about, so Friday’s reception held in New York by the British Film Commission and the New York branch of UK Trade and Industry was a fabulous way to showcase our country's involvement in the films at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. It was amazing to have so many luminaries from the British film world together in one spectacular room at the gorgeous Norwood Members Club - a 'home for the curious.'

Fitting -- as everyone was curious to find out about Film Club’s involvement in creating the animation in Eric Steel's documentary Kiss the Water. I got the chance to speak to Tara Halloran of the British Film Commission and Katie Ellen of BFI aided by the fantastic Sabine Krayenbuehl, the film's editor.
 

The evening was beautifully timed as we want as many people as possible to see the stunning hand painted animation that our director Em Cooper produced for the film. Rubbing shoulders with the great and the good gave me the opportunity to let everyone know about the first screening of Kiss the Water. We really want the film to be well received since it's a truly beautiful story. Here's hoping our Film Brit Pack are as excited about it as we are!

It is always good when your reputation precedes you: having worked with BAFTA and Childline on 'Losing the Plot' for the Create and Make competition they ran. I got some lovely comments from BAFTA New York: Harlene Freezer, the chairman and Christina Thomas, its CEO. All in all, it was a really great evening and hopefully a taste of things to come!

For any of you visiting the festival in New York, here are the screening times for Kiss the Water.

Wednesday, April 24 5:30pm  -  Chelsea Clearview Cinemas 4

Thursday, April 25 12:00pm  -  Chelsea Clearview Cinemas 7 (press & industry)

Saturday, April 27 7:30pm  -  Chelsea Clearview Cinemas 9 

Sunday, April 28 7:00pm  -  AMC Village 7 Cinema 2

Tom Jobbins' music video on Vimeo Staff Picks

In March Film Clubs, Tom Jobbins released his beautiful stop-motion music video for Hiatus' new track 'We Can Be Ghosts Now'. Since the release the music video has received a high volume of interest across the web, with YouTube views clocking over 37,000.

This week the video was successfully shown as a 'Vimeo Staff Pick', and instantly received plenty of appreciative reviews in the comment section.

Congratulations Tom, well deserved.

Em Cooper animation to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

Documentary feature directed by Eric Steel with 10 minutes of animation sequences by Film Clubs Em Cooper to premiere at the Tribecca film festival on Monday 22nd April at &.00pm at the Chelsea Clearview Cinema.

Kiss the Water: Tribeca Film Festival Screenings

Monday, 22 April (7:00pm) - Chelsea Clearview Cinemas 5

Wednesday, 24 April (5:30pm) - Chelsea Clearview Cinemas 4

Thursday, 25 April (12:00pm) - Chelsea Clearview Cinemas 7 (press & industry)

Saturday, 27 April (7:30pm) - Chelsea Clearview Cinemas 9

Sunday, 28 April (7:00pm) - AMC Village 7 Cinema 2

Running Time: 80 Minutes

Hayley Morris Iron & Wine - 'Joy' on Motionographer

Since the release of Hayley Morris' stop-motion music video for Iron & Wine it has been well receieved and is now featured on the creative industry blog, Motionographer.

Below is the making of from the beautiful stop-motion animation, which took in total, 2 months to create in Hayley's New York studio.

Hayley Morris music video for Iron & Wine on NPR's 'All Songs Considered'

New animated music video by Film Club's New York based director, Hayley Morris 'Joy' by Iron & Wine. The video is premiered on NPR's 'All Songs Considered'.

Hayley has created a beautiful colourful world within this fantastical stop motion animation.

Click here for the first watch on NPR.

'Losing The Plot' ranked No.1 on David's Reviews

Our short film for Childline and BAFTA Kids Vote directed by Yui Hamagashira is ranked no.1 on David's reviews top 20 for March. Get your votes in to keep it there as long as possible. Thanks so much to everyone that has voted for us. 

Tom Jobbins music video for DJ Hiatus featuring Shura

The music video 'We Can Be Ghosts Now' by Film Club director Tom Jobbins for DJ Haitus featuring Shura, which went live last night on Dummy, is a retelling of a tragic love story with the protagonists played by stop-motion triangles.

Tom was inspired to make a film using only simple shapes and colour because he didn't want to interfere with the songs underlying dark beauty. Abstracting the world gave him a lot more manoeuvre to be playful and create a short hand to bring out emotive feelings with the characters.

Click here to watch the full music video.

Babeldom Reviewed in The Guardian

Film Club director Paul Bush has received some very good reviews since his feature film Babeldom had its theatrical release. Read the review below by Peter Bradshaw in last Thursdays Guardian.

Click here to read when Babeldom was reviewed in the March issue of Site and Sound.

Tom Hiddleston introduces Film Club Childline & BAFTA film

The short animated film made by Film Club director Yui Hamagashira for Childline and BAFTA Kids' Vote is introduced by Tom Hiddleston.

Tom Hiddleston has had major film roles in Thor: God of Thunder, War Horse, Avengers Assemble, Deep Blue Sea and Midnight in Paris plus many more and numerous TV shows. He was voted sexiest star in movies right now by Total Film Magazine.

Click here to see his intro.

New short animated film for Yui Hamagashira

Film Club  director Yui Hamagashira has designed and directed the short animated film 'Losing The Plot' for Childline and BAFTA Kids' Vote.

The story was the winning entry in the create and make story competition run by Childline and BAFTA Kids' Vote. Owain aged 12 won the competition with his winning story. His prize was for Film Club to turn his story into an animated film.

BABELDOM - Theatrical Release

Babeldom, the feature film made by Film Club director Paul Bush is on theatrical release. Its first screenings will be at the ICA cinema on the Mall from 8th to 14th March. There will be a special screening on 10th March at the ICA with a selection of Pauls short animated films followed by a Q&A with Paul.

For screening times and to book tickets please go to the ICA Box Office on 0207 930 3647.

As part of its theatrical release the film will also be screened at the following venues:

• Glasgow Film Theatre 3rd March plus Q& A session with Paul 
• Bristol Watershed 8-14th March
• Nottingham Broadway 8-14th March plus Q&A with Paul on 11th March
• Sheffield Showroom 8-14th March
• Birmingham Flatpack Festival 24th March plus Q&A with Paul
• Cambridge Arts Picturehouse 25th March plus Q&A with Paul

Babeldom is reviewed in the March issue of Sight and Sound, read the review below.

Em Cooper gives talk at Freud museum tonight

Film Club director Em Cooper is giving a talk tonight at the Freud Museum in Hampstead. Her films; The Nest, Confusion of Tongues and Laid Down will be screened followed by a discussion between Em and Andrea Sabbadini. Em's 3 short films explore the complex and chaotic world of inner experience from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Em's films have been screened internationally, including at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Her work has also shown at Turner Contemporary, Margate and discussed at various psychoanalytic conferences including the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival in London and the International Ferenczi Conference in Budapest. Her film Confusion of Tongues was nominated for the 2012 British Animation Awards.

Em is currently working on animated scenes within a feature documentary for the BBC...watch this space!