Jo Lawrence joins Film Club

Jo mixes stop motion, puppets, paper cutouts and After Effects to create a visual creative feast. Film Club is delighted to welcome Jo to its directors roster.

Click here to view her profile on the Film Club website. 

EM COOPER at Sundance

Em is at Sundance this week with her Sierra Leone film 30%

The Artist as Indie Film Darling? 10 Films About Creativity at Sundance 2013
by Sara Roffino writing for BLOUIN ARTINFO

Published: January 25, 2013

Art-lovers among the filmmakers and fans gathered in the snowy Utah mountains for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival have a plethora of art-related viewing options this week. ARTINFO presents the 10 selections we are most excited about at Sundance this year……..

30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone)

While not about art, the use of oil-painted animation combined with documentary footage to tell the stories of three women working to change gender inequities in post-conflict Sierra Leone is possibly the most creatively produced film in the festival this year. 

Paul Bush wins Special Golden Dinosaur Award at Etiuda & Anima Festival

The Special Golden Dinosaur Prize for an outstanding animation artist has been awarded to Film Club director Paul Bush.

‘Paul is a legend of British animation, an artist with an enchanting technique who creates intriguing works. Bush often reinterprets classical literary works (such as Dante’s Divine Comedy) and art (e.g. Giorgio Morandi’s plates), taking inspiration from various branches of science. His latest work, Babeldom (2011) is a result of such inspiration.

Bush is a pioneer of a technique of scratching frame by frame directly into the surface of colour filmstock over live action footage (seen e.g. in The Albatross, 1998). This technique resembles traditional wood engraving and gives the artist the opportunity to focus on the material (in this case –  film stock). Bush also uses stop motion animation techniques, which can be seen in his film Furniture Poetry.’

Pauls latest feature animation Babledom  and his latest short animation Lay Bare have been extensively screened during 2012 at  28 International festivals including, Ontario, Montreal, Ottawa, Hiroshima, Holland and Annecy. Babledom will be screened next month at the ICA

TRAM makes OSCAR shortlist

Short animated film, Tram by Film Club director Michaela Pavlatova has made it into the OSCARs shortlist. Out of 56 qualifying films Tram is one of the 10 short listed films from which 3 to 5 will make it through to be nominated in the final round.

Tram tells the tale of erotic fantasy of a lady tram driver.

Good work Michaela!

Film Club shortlisted at the 2012 British Arrows Craft Awards

Film Club Commercial Tempo - Bike has been shortlisted in the animation section of the 2012 British Arrows Craft Awards.

The winners will be announced on 26th November.

Film Club Pentax films for Blueprint Magazine

2 Film Club directors David Anderson and Tom Jobbins have just completed short films commissioned by Blueprint Magazine. The films are running at the Designjunction as part of the London Design Festival and highlighted in the November issue of Blueprint Magazine

Blueprint provided a Marc Newson designed Pentax K-01 camera and a fairly open brief, 

Tom Jobbins chose London 2012, Tom decided to celebrate how well the Brits did in the cycling events at the London 2012 Olympics in this amazingly creative interpretation of the brief .

Click here to see his film  Pedal London 2012

http://youtu.be/cw_lbKice50

David Anderson chose Hidden and illustrated a poem by poet John Agard for his intriguing and
beautiful film.

Click here to see his film Hosana of Small Mercies

http://youtu.be/2PojRTmihMo

Tempo "Bike" shortlisted at LIA 2012

Tempo - Bike by Film Club has been shortlisted at this years LIA, in the category; TV/Cinema/Online Film - Production | Post Production — Animation

Em Cooper's short film '30%' features in todays Guardian

Short film '30%' co directed by Film Club director Em Cooper about women in politics in Sierra Leone is featured in todays Guardian

Em's animation style is a powerful mix of oil paint and live action and works to communicate strong messages and view points through animation using imagery that cannot ordinarily be filmed. The film was commissioned by Screen South.

guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2012/sep/26/sierra-leone-women-refuse-whistling-quota-video

Silver Shark for Tempo "Bike"

Film Club's animated commercial, Tempo - Bike by Film Club won a Silver Shark in the Best Animated TV category at the Kinsale Shark Awards this Saturday.

Tempo - "Bike" also won Best 2D animated commercial at the British Animation Awards earlier this year.

Click here to watch the full commercial.

Film Club shortlisted at this years Kinsale Sharks Awards

Film Club has 2 pieces of work shortlisted at this years Kinsale Sharks Awards.

Tempo - Bike is nominated in the Broadcast- Best Animation category 

and Chivas Regal - A Legend Reborn directed by Alon Ziv and Shay Hamias is nominated in the Digital  Animation category

UK premiere for BABELDOM at Encounters Festival

Babeldom, the latest feature film by Film Club director Paul Bush is set for its UK premiere in a special screening at Encounters Festival in the Arnolfini cinema at 6.00pm on Friday 21st september.

Also part of the Encounters Festival, Paul will be doing a retrospective programme of his work on thursday 20th September a 2:00pm and giving a masterclass the same day.

Paul is a member of the jury for the short animated film competition at the festival.

Click here to watch the trailer for Babeldom.

TRAM WINS MORE AWARDS

Since winning the Grand Prix, The Annecy Cristal/ Le Cristal d'Annecy and the FIPRESCI press awards at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival - Annecy, France, TRAM, a short animated film by Film Club director Michaela Pavlatova has been busy sweeping up awards on the animation festival scene 2012. It has also won;

Grand Prix - Festival du Film Court en Plein Air de Grenoble (France)

Best animated short film (1-10min),International Animation Film Festival Golden Kuker (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Best International Female Participation Award -FEMINA - International Women Film Festival (Brazil)

Selected: La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs/ Directors’ Fortnight (Cannes, France) 2012

Mchaela Pavlatova wins top award at Annecy

Annecy International Animation Festival is the world's top reference for animated films, the Cannes of animation, it is the most highly regarded world animation festival. This year, the 50th anniversary of the festival.

One of 223 films screened between 4th to 9th June, Film Club director, Michaela Pavlatova won the Annecy Cristal prize for Best short film plus the press and critics prize 'FIPRESCI Award' for her new short animated film ' Tram'.

Little Clay Men

Film Club director Em Cooper worked with Ceramic artist,  Lawrence Epps, to leave 8,000 little clay men for Manchesters commuters on Wednesday 16th May.

The 8,000 men were placed all around Manchester during Tuesday evening to surprise the commuters on Wednesday morning.

The event was part of Future Everything festival running from 16 - 19th May in Manchester.

EMERGENCE at Turner contemporary, Margate

‘Emergence’, a new piece of work by Film Club director, Em Cooper, will be screening at the Turner Contemporary, Margate, on Friday evening this week, 20th April, as part of their 1st anniversary celebrations.

The piece is a collaboration with composer Jim Perkins, and combines Em's signature style, oil-painted animation with Jim Perkins’ score, which will be sung by soprano Red Gray, to the projection in the gallery.

It will be performed 3 times during the evening between 6 and 10pm. The piece is inspired by the philosophical concept of Emergence, and can be read as a meditation on the creative process...

You are very much invited, if you happen to feel like a spontaneous Friday-night trip to the seaside on the high speed train (only an hour from london!)...

TEMPO WINS AT BAA

We are delighted to announce that TEMPO Bike won best 2d animated commercial at last nights British Animation Awards.

We would like to thank the whole fantastic team who helped to create this commercial

Film Club would like to thank everyone at th1ng for their continued support.

Erica Akerlund .... Theatre d'Idyotique

Erica Akerlund, Film Club director, who joined us this year, has been working on a project for Le Theatre Idiotique.