Films : Body Projections : all
animate! synopsis
Written on the body, a pixillated pillow book of all flesh, this film questions adornment through rhythm and ritual, dream and suggestion, asking why? Sex, territory or cellular expression?
short synopsis
Body Projections examines the human body through body painting, sound and pixillation. Rhythm, ritual and suggestion replace measurements and learning in an attempt to understand why we are drwan to body enhancement.
long synopsis
In Body Projections, rhythm, ritual and suggestion replace measurements and learning in a dreamlike exploration of why, as a species, we have such a history of body decoration. Using projected animation on pixiliated bodies, the film asks why humans paint their bodies – is it a sexual or even territorial gesture or are the body’s cells shouting out in self expression?
key credits
- director
- Tony Donoghue
- editor
- Dave Borthwick
- music
- Peter Brandt
Tony Donoghue
short biography
Tony Donoghue worked as a zoologist at the Natural History Museum before becoming a filmmaker. He studied animation at West Surrey College of Art and runs the animation course at Dun Laoghaire, Eire.
1997
a film by Tony Donoghue
direction
- director
- Tony Donoghue
cast in picture
- bodies
- Michelle Blower
- Liz Lewitt
- Stefan Marjoram
- John Hayward
- Sue Khosravi
- Richard Lynn
image personnel
- editor
- Dave Borthwick
sound personnel
- music
- Peter Brandt
production personnel
- technical support
- Glen Hall
- Lew Gardner
- Nigel Davies
- Mark Taylor
support
- thanks
Todd-AO, Metrocolor, Technicolor, A for Animation
- primary funding
Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award
© Tony Donoghue 1998
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master copy format
- colour or black & white
- colour
video distribution format
- video format
- BetaSP
- screen aspect ratio
- 4:3
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
info@lux.org.uk
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www.lux.org.uk
