Films : Rotting Artist : all
animate! synopsis
People try it on in the Croxley bunkers, and when the head of the household shoves his bendy cane brush right up the chimney we would do well to run to the other side of the road and watch it appear out the top for the lucky sight of it.
key credits
- director
- Ann Course
- Paul Clark
Ann Course
biography
Ann Course was born in 1965, in Watford. Ann and her partner Paul each studied at the Royal College of Art. They live and work in London, Ann as a practising artist and Paul as a painter, with a rapidly-expanding catalogue of their darkly amusing animated films.
Their work has been widely exhibited and screened.
filmography
Ann(i)mated 1993, 3‘, sound, video
Prince 1999, 1’ 10“, sound, video
Me 1999, silent, video
Untitled (Night Beast), 1999, 1‘, sound, video
Waitin for Waste, 2000, 3‘, sound, video
The Artist 2000, 3‘, sound, video
Mother 2000, 1‘, sound, video
Recruitment Video 2000, 2’ 30“, sound, video
Shit Belt 2000, 3’ 10“, sound, video
Rotting Artist 2002, 3’ 10“, sound, video
Black Magic 2002, 2‘, sound, video
Paul Clark
short biography
Paul Clark was born in Ilford, in 1965. He studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic, and then at the Royal College of Art. He lives in London with his partner Ann Course and is a practising painter.
a film by Ann Course & Paul Clark
direction
- director
- Ann Course
- Paul Clark
production personnel
- line producer
- Steve Connolly
support
- primary funding
An animate! production through Finetake for the Arts Council of England and Channel 4
© Ann Course & Paul Clark 2002

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technical
process summary
A non-linear story using line drawings and photocopies shot ‘live’ under a rostrum camera in response to the music soundtrack.
master copy format
- format
- DigiBeta
- colour or black & white
- black & white
video distribution format
- video format
- DigiBeta
- screen aspect ratio
- 16:9
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
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