Programme Two in the British Animation Awards contains a selection of animated shorts, music videos and TV commercials. Cast your vote after the programme to help select this year’s winners.
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Wallpaper
Dir Fiona Geilinger/GB 2011/4 mins
A transformation occurs, through which using elements of clothing, patern and architecture, a woman hides and reveals herself…until she choses to abandon her identity by absorption into the fabric of her surroundings.
The Boy Who Wanted to be a Lion
Dir Alois Di Leo/GB 2011/9 mins
National Film and Television School
Jake is a 7-year old deaf boy growing up in the 1960s. One day he goes on a school trip to the zoo where he sees a lion for the first time. A feeling begins to grow inside him that will change his life forever.
Remembering Formby
Dir Sue Elliott/GB 2011/5 mins
University of the West of England
The film offers a bright insight into the life and work of one of the safest men who ever lived.
Being Bradford Dillman
Dir Emma Burch/GB 2011/11 mins
A tale of a mother and daughter relationship shadowed by alcohol, loneliness and a dislike of boys.
Loose Fit: Table Beggar
Dir Abbie Stephens/GB 2011/4 mins
A man who has been physically torn out of the frame, leaves an animated hole in his place, whilst struggling with his condition, he discovers the healing properties of water.
DeVotchKa: 100 Other Lovers
Dir Chloe Rodham/GB 2011/4 mins
A simple story of a bird loving Babushka and many luminescent wings. If you love something enough, you have to let it go.
London Elektricity: Round the World in a Day
Dir David Gilbert & Maxim Lucas/GB 2011/4 mins
Richard the heartbroken dolphin gets away from it all, but is it all as it seems?
Robots of Brixton
Dir Kibwe Tavares/GB 2011/6 mins
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce.
Get Well Soon: Tarrant
Dir Bill Elliott/GB 2011/2 mins
There are hidden dangers playing the Chris Tarrant games machine down your local.
Out on the Tiles
Dir Anna Pearson/GB 2011/3 mins
Edinburgh College of Art
An inebriated woman pays a visit to the ladies loo for a cigarette, but not everything goes to plan….
Tempo: Bike
Dir Vida Vega/GB 2011/30 mins
Boy meets girl …..
Knife Crime Animation
Dir Vicki Haworth & Harriet Buckley/GB 2011/2 mins
How knife crime affects a group of Scottish teenagers. Part of their “No Knives better lives” campaign.
Radioshack: Big Trip
Dirs 12foot6/GB 2011/5 mins
Make sure you’ve got enough time for your trip. You may meet a crazy person and want to take a picture for Twitter.
Nokia: Dot
Dirs Sumo Science/GB 2011/2 mins
Dot is a tiny 9mm girl who wakes up in a magical, magnified world to discover her surroundings are caving in around her.
Eagleman Stag
Dir Mike Please/GB 2011/9 mins
Royal College of Art
Nearing the end of his days, Peter undertakes progressively extreme measures to control and counter time’s increasing pace. He discovers repeating the word ‘fly’ for long enough makes it sound like ‘life’. This is of no real help to him. His answers lie in the brain of a beetle.
A Morning Stroll
Dir Grant Orchard/GB 2011/7 mins
When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we’re left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.
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