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The following transcript is taken from animate!’s three-part series of screening & discussion evenings in Spring 2006 at the National Portrait Gallery, London, entitled Tracing the Contours: Portraiture and Place in Contemporary Animation, investigating the unique way in which animation, the manipulated moving image, can amplify notions of portraiture.

The second evening Route Masters: Portraits in [...]

May 2006

A special programme of recent commissions from the animate! project, venturing into fresh narrative territories and visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation.

In each of the ten films in Extending the Image : animate! 02-05 the artist breaks the rules and the exhilaration is compelling:

13 by Simon Faithfull, Dad’s Dead [...]

13 May 2006 - 2 July 2006

An exhibition illustrating what it means when fine art - usually the stillest of all the art forms - begins to move. The animations of seven UK artists are on show alongside the other kinds of artworks they make - paintings, photographs, sculptures and live events.

The artists represented are [...]

Thursday 11 May 2006 19:00

animate! concludes its three-part series of special evening screenings during the National Portrait Gallery’s 150th anniversary year, exploring portraiture and the dynamic medium of contemporary animation.

The primary focus of the season is the fascinating relationship between portraiture and place. Examining the implications of interior and exterior spaces, as well as the [...]

The following transcript is taken from animate!’s three-part series of screening & discussion evenings in Spring 2006 at the National Portrait Gallery, London, entitled Tracing the Contours: Portraiture and Place in Contemporary Animation, investigating the unique way in which animation, the manipulated moving image, can amplify notions of portraiture.

The first evening Face to Place: Portraits [...]

Saturday 22 April 2006 19:30

A special programme of recent commissions from the animate! project, venturing into fresh narrative territories and visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation.

In each of the ten films in Extending the Image : animate! 02-05 the artist breaks the rules and the exhilaration is compelling:

13 by Simon [...]

Entry deadline Friday 26 May 2006

This November the celebrated pair of Bristol international film festivals, Brief Encounters and Animated Encounters, unite into one Encounters Short Film Festival. animate! is proud to add a new award to the exciting list of Encounters’ prizes, the animate! Artist Award for innovation in manipulated moving image.

This is not the [...]

Thursday 13 April 2006 19:00

animate! continues its three-part series of special evening screenings during the National Portrait Gallery’s 150th anniversary year, exploring portraiture and the dynamic medium of contemporary animation.

The primary focus of the season is the fascinating relationship between portraiture and place. Examining the implications of interior and exterior spaces, as well as the [...]

Run Wrake’s animate! commission Rabbit won two major categories in the British Animation Awards 2006 on 9 March - Best Short Film and Best Film at the Cutting Edge.

And David Shrigley & Chris Shepherd’s animate! Who I Am and What I Want shared the Public Choice Best Short Film Award with Gaelle Denis’ City Paradise.

The [...]

Thursday 9 March 2006 19:00

We are delighted to confirm that Booker Prize-winning novelist AS Byatt is our guest in conversation for Face to Place: Portraits in Public, the first evening of the three-part animate! series Tracing the Contours: Portraiture and Place in Contemporary Animation at the National Portrait Gallery London.

AS Byatt has been interested for [...]