International Program #3 (2008)

The history of animation condensed in three and a half action packed minutes - with a reminder of how hard it is to animated hair!

Animation is created one frame at a time, 24 frames for a second. A bold imaginative experiment using real people with giant flipbooks strapped into a giant, revolving zoetrope. An absolutely unique perspective on the art of creating an animated image.

Bugs don't live long, not long at all. In fact in the time it takes to read this, your average bug will have.....

Fine art with a raw edge. A combination of water colour montages, captivating sketches and imagery borrowed from archives of short film and auteur animation.

Layer upon layer, our character gets parred down to his intrinsic essentials.

A street-level response to the Beaufort Wind Scale in which an unseen visitor whips up all kids of chaos on the inhabitants of an unsuspecting neighbourhood.

A crazy kitchen, an inspired chef and some pretty happy pasta.

Ancient Japanese graphics and samurai tattoo design is brought to startling digital life in this sumptuously animated work.

One of the finest examples of the manipulation of light in an animated film that you will ever see. An extended illumination of lives lived amongst the machinery of mankind.

Gorgeously drawn in deep blue ink, this films perfectly captures the depth of the main character Paul, a man caught in a life not entirely of his own making.

Ah, can there be any greater love than samosa love?

A deceptively simple film which strips away the visual complications of scenery to more fully capture the clash of cultures that exist between the man woman.

Hoh man! The dangers and various burdens of being one of the tastiest kids on the block.

Although wrapping us in its painterly beauty, Beton brings home of the complex horrors of war and the simple desires for peace in all its forms.

A small boy rides a wave of dark blue ink all the way into a strange parallel universe where he gets to pain the wall with a family of box heads.

....than never to have photographed at all. If every picture is worth a thousand words, these walls have a lot to say.

An intensely detailed drawn cascade of fascinating, intertwining elements combine to create of wall of vision that will kickstart the most dormant of imaginations.

Reaching deep into the dreams of the town's children, evil Mister Sandman finally meets his match when he too must close his eyes.