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

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