Public Choice offers UK audiences a chance to participate in the bi-annual British Animation Awards. Vote for your favourites from this diverse selection of short-listed work, ranging from student films to offerings from former Oscar and BAFTA winners, hit vids by Franz Ferdinand and Gorillaz and mind-blowing adverts. Below is a brief outline for Programme Two, for full details please see www.britishanimationawards.com
Films featured in Programme 2 are listed below:
Duration of Programme 3: 78 mins
Bus Stop: A father and son pass the time while waiting for a bus.
Beginning Middle & End: An animated metaphor for the cycle of life.
Careful: A 7-year-old girl is sent out to post a letter by her over-controlling mother.
Moving: A granny’s tranquil, secluded life is disrupted by an invading city.
Perfect: Jan & Brian start their married life on a raft of shiny new objects. The objects tarnish and break… Can their love survive?
Minema Cinema: Love Then First Fight: Crowbar Bob Brakinlot, a reformed criminal, meets Blossom, a shirt whose life has been torn apart. They seem to offer one other a chance to be average in a nasty world.
Camera: Out on the Water: The whimsical travels of a curious young maggot..
Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out: A Dadaist inspired photographic montage created in a graphic collage style.
Gorillaz: Feel Good: Another big night at the Feel Good Inc tower in a grey city. 2D, the last one standing, sees Noodle pass by on a floating island.
While Darwin Sleeps: 3,000 insects appear each for a single frame, as if the genetic programme of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes.
Beach Buoy: The film follows a ball’s journey across the memory of a British Seaside.
Beasty: A macabre tale of a line-dancing bear’s revenge.
Who I Am and What I Want: This film is about who I am and what I want. It’s not about who you are and what you want….
Film Noir: A non-linear narrative recalling the spirit of classic film noir.
Rabbit: A selection of 1950s educational stickers provide the ingredients for this adult fairytale, about greed and the random justice of nature.
Pepperami: Swimmer
United Airlines: A Life
MSN: Adventures
Carte Noire
Johnny Walker: Paintings
OM: From Abba to Zappa