animate!

Wednesday 18 - Saturday 21 October 2006

animate! rates NIAF as the most important and unmissable event for the future of animation in the UK. Totally artist-orientated and hungrily in pursuit of the best in manipulated moving image work, both new in competition and from the archives, the festival also offers unique seminars plus lashings of [...]

October - November 2006

A special programme of this year’s animate! tv commissions. animate! challenges artists to transcend the ordinary and re-vision the world with unexpected tools, to refresh their eyes and minds - and ours too. The project believes passionately in spirited, radical content, and in film-based work as well as digital process.

Six exciting, diverse [...]

Thursday 5 October 2006 18:45

In the first of a unique monthly series, experimental animation project animate! presents features, shorts and documentaries that take life beyond live action into a delirious, unsettling, inspiring and stunningly imaginative realm, where the visual meets the visionary. Guest directors, onstage discussions and live music events accompany the series.

animate! Rogue Talents [...]

Saturday 2 September 2006 19:30

In a suitably rural forest setting just outside of Exeter, animate! and Halloween join forces to present a spectacular multi-media event mixing film and live music at the brand-new Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World.

The Memory Band, featuring Stephen Cracknell plus special guests, present a live soundtrack to the [...]

Sunday 27 August 2006 13:00

A maelstrom mix of animate! commissions enlivens the famous Leeds Festival, the UK’s biggest music festival in 2006. Relish a collection of spooky stories revealing the darker side of animation - and life - before the big bands play on the final day of this Mean Fiddler celebration for the Bank [...]

4 & 5 August 2006

A special programme of recent commissions from the animate! project, venturing into fresh narrative territories and visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation.

In each of the ten films in Extending the Image : animate! 02-05 the artist breaks the rules and the exhilaration is compelling:

13 by Simon [...]

Saturday 22 July 2006 18:00

Often referred to as the ‘Glastonbury for books’, Port Eliot Literary Festival is celebrated for the wide-ranging list of artists, writers, thinkers, stinkers, chefs, dress-makers and ne’erdowells that have appeared over the last three years. The animate! project is proud to curate a special film programme from its back catalogue as [...]

Friday 21 July 2006 21:00 - 01:00

In a major Hayward Night for the Gallery’s Undercover Surrealism exhibition, animate! joins forces with Halloween to present The New Flesh, a visceral evening of musical and cinematic interventions exploring Georges Bataille’s trademark themes of sex and death, and the legacy of his dissident surrealism in popular culture.

Buck 65 [...]

Sunday 16 July 2006 17:00

animate! raids the archive to hand-pick a programme of strikingly diverse and entertaining films at Latitude Festival, Mean Fiddler’s long packed weekend of music & arts near Southwold, Suffolk, and their most ambitious event this year. The visual treats on show include:

15th February by Tim Webb, Cowboys by Phil Mulloy, Dad’s [...]

Saturday 15 July 2006 12:30pm

On the final day of this year’s acclaimed Curzon Soho Short Film Summer School, animate! presents a special programme of commissions that were captured in live-action then super-charged into the animated realm.

The screening is followed by a discussion with Tony Grisoni, one of Britain’s leading screenwriters for directors including Terry Gilliam [...]