Films : 15th February : all
animate! synopsis
From a poem by Peter Reading, symbol and sadism meet live-action and stop-motion in this tale of rejection and its aftermath. There’s even a credit for ‘hair knotting on heart‘.
short synopsis
15th February mixes live action and animation to describe a symbolic rejection and its sadistic outcome, as related in the poem by Peter Reading.
key credits
- director
- Tim Webb
- Janice Biggs
- narrator
- Peter Reading
- lighting camera
- David Green
- Colin Hawkins
- David Pritchard
- animator
- Tim Webb
Tim Webb
short biography
Tim’s first film after his 1986 BA in Animation at West Surrey College of Art & Design was the multi-awardwinning A is for Autism for Channel 4 in 1992. He has made one previous film for animate! – 15th February received the 1995 ICA Dick Award as “the most provocative, innovative and subversive short film of the year” and the first ZEBRA Poetry Film Award , Berlin 2002.
He lives in Broadstairs and is Senior Tutor in Animation at the Royal College of Art.
Mr Price is his first digitally-based film.
June 2003
animate! films by this artist
Janice Biggs
in collaboration with Janice Biggs
direction
- director
- Tim Webb
based upon
- actual credit
- based upon
- title of original material
- 15th February
- author
- Peter Reading
- type of adapted source material
- poem
- copyright
- © Peter Reading 1983
voice-over
- narrator
- Peter Reading
live-action personnel
- lighting camera
- David Green
- Colin Hawkins
- David Pritchard
image personnel
- animator
- Tim Webb
sound personnel
- dubbing mixer
- Colin Martin
support
- thanks
Dick Arnall, Jeremy Moorshead, Jonathan Hodgson, Lisa Beattie and Soho Images.
- primary funding
Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award
© Tim Webb 1995
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master copy format
- format
- 16mm
- colour or black & white
- colour
video distribution format
- video format
- BetaSP
- screen aspect ratio
- 4:3
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
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Arts Council of England
