UK Tag Archive

Animation

Velvet Tissue Zoetrope

The other day I was idly flicking through channels and landed on this fantastic Velvet toilet tissue spot directed by Geoffroy de Crecy for Fallon: Our new ad

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Animation, Art & Fashion

Calculate

One of the greatest measurements of a successful short film is if it leaves you wanting more. I think I could happily watch JamVee’s (the collaboration

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Animation

Bang

A very short film about having an idea for a very short film.

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Live Action

Junkhearts

Opening with close up shots of a disturbed looking Eddie Marsan as he greedily swigs from miniature whisky bottles and rummages through the remains of a

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Music Video

Machine

At Reading Festival this year I was lucky enough to witness the audio visual delight that is Radio Soulwax, as they blew the roof off the NME/Radio 1 stage

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Music Video

Summer Camp: Down

Down from London director/animator Chris Boyle is a great Halloween party promo that finally justifies the existence of looping animated GIFS – the video

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Animation

Pythagasaurus

Voiced by comedians Bill Bailey, Martin Trenaman and Simon Greenall, Pythagasaurus the new animation from Aardman directed by Peter Peake, not only delivers

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Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire – Daniel Edelstyn

I’m pretty sure that Daniel Edelstyn is the only director I met at the London Film Festival this year who’s the rightful heir to a Russian vodka

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Art & Fashion, Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Shock Head Soul – Simon Pummell

Based on the famous book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness from German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, Simon Pummell’s feature Shock Head Soul depicts

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Art & Fashion, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Somnambulists – Richard Jobson

Angered by the way he and the rest of us allowed the UK to sleepwalk into the Iraq war, Richard Jobson’s The Somnambulists is a departure for the

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Live Action

Short Film in Fake English

Billed as “A Short film in Fake English” and created for Kino Sydney #47, Brian Fairbairn’s Skwerl is a film about the importance of

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Live Action

Tyrannosaur

Let me preface this review by saying that I’m one of them ones with a lady garden. Having been subjected to the chatter of philosophical men (suspected)

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