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Films : Mr Price : all

animate! synopsis

A reflection on life from mid-life. Memory, expectation, disappointment, education, hero worship, all human failings. Mr Price is about illusions and representation – how we understand the world and people around us.

key credits

director: Tim Webb
director of photography: Tony Hill
sound recording: Mark Hewis
sound post production: Jake Roberts; Barnaby Templer
production manager: Jayne Bevitt
producer: Jonathan Bairstow

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

15th February

Mr Price

a film by Tim Webb

direction

director: Tim Webb

cast in picture

James: Tim Webb
James (younger): Sam Webb
James' wife: Janice Biggs
Mr Price: Stephen Todd
boy in class: Charlie Bishop; Peter McNulty
Donovan: Steven Nolan

live-action personnel

director of photography: Tony Hill

image personnel

animator: Ronald MacRae; Jonathan Hodgson; Barry Murphy
colourist: Lisa Flaher; Andrea Friedrich
editing and compositing: Wes West; Shelley Revill; Adam Aiken

sound personnel

music: Dominic McNulty; Alex Franklinos
singer: Star; Ruth Lingford; Chris Bullock; Angela Prince; Emma Sue Prince
sound recording: Mark Hewis
sound post production: Jake Roberts; Barnaby Templer

incorporated music and sound material

Mellow Yellow instrumental courtesy of Donovan Leitch

production personnel

production manager: Jayne Bevitt
producer: Jonathan Bairstow
production company: Sherbet

support

thanks: Locations: Margate Winter Gardens, Ann and Phill McNaulty, Dover Athletic Football Ground, Upton Junior School.
Lighting provider: George Duck
primary funding: an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4