01.07.08
: The Control Master is featured
this Thursday night at 11.20 pm on BBC2
as part of The
Culture Show Uncut. Turn on
and Tune in. Great performance from The
Raconteurs amongst other delights...
For the film's debut on
a bigger screen, check
out the Animation programme at the forthcoming
Soho
Shorts Festival, which runs from 23-31
July.
Other festival dates coming soon.....
03.05.08 : "THE CONTROL MASTER" is online
01.05.08
: The Control Master will be going online on
3rd May at Veer.com, whose CSA
archive provided the
images for the film.
16.04.08
: After a heads down three months I have
completed a new short. 'THE CONTROL MASTER' will
be hitting various screens soon, stay tuned for
details.....
Rabbit has been nominated
for a webby award,
in the Experimental Film & Video category...feel
free to vote for it in the People's Voice Award
here.
05.12.07
: The Rabbit keeps on running, collecting
awards this Autumn in Kiev
and St.
Louis, big thanks
to the respective juries. The film also features on the
latest DVD from Cinema16,
a fine selection of the
best in European Short Film, available in the US only.
05.11.07
: Remember, remember....we have moved,
and I am now enjoying the arcadian pleasures of the Kent
countryside as a backdrop for developing a new film...
the Meatheads are coming.
As its November, time to start thinking about all things
festive, so take a look at the Christmas Cards and
other delights available in the SHOP.
New T-shirt designed for
Animate Projects too, available
at their forthcoming spangly new
website.
30.07.07
: Can it be that summer has finally arrived?
Hope so, as I will be at the Big Chill this weekend
re-mixing the past in the Media
Mix tent as part of
the Halloween
programme. Rabbit also showing
at the festival in a bicycle
powered cinema...
Despite this year's monsoons, it stayed dry and
sunny for my wedding to Lisa on 21st July.
Hooray!! We had a glorious day and owe a big
Thanks to all who were a part of it....
Thanks also due to the Platform
Animation
Festival in Portland, who awarded Rabbit
the prize for best film under $50,000.00.
Nice One.
15.06.07
: Festival time is here once again, and those of
you lucky enough to be going to Glastonbury can enjoy
Rabbit in the back of a solar powered London taxi in
the Green Field, courtesy of the Wreck
Collective.
Also showing in Lost Vagueness as part of a
programme by Future
Cinema. I wish I was going...
I will however be going
to the Big
Chill, where I'll
be stirring
the past once again on the Friday night.
Full details to follow...
05.06.07
: Just finished work on visuals for the Genesis
anthem 'Follow You, Follow Me' coming to a stadium
near you soon, as part of the Turn It On world tour...
If you find yourself in Paris in the coming
week, check out the Pockets
Film Festival at the
Pompidou Centre, where the mobile ringtones I made
for DMove in Tokyo will be screened, on mobile phones.
Rabbit is being screened
in Brooklyn on June 29th
courtesy of Rooftop
Films, and this week at the
Museum
of Modern Art in New York.
Finally, a recently recorded interview is now online,
courtesy of Chief Magazine.
26.03.07 :
Spring is sprung today as the light returns.
Rabbit collected the audience award for animation
at the recent San
Francisco Independent Film Festival
The film will be featured at a forthcoming show at the
Monster Truck gallery in Dublin, as well as screenings
coming up on 13th and 15th April in Philadelphia
and
June 6th and 8th in New
York. More
importantly than
all that though, Florence is walking.
09.02.07 :
Happy New Year, well new-ish
anyway.
Rabbit picked up another award in January at Flickerfest
in Sydney, a rare victory for an Englishman in Australia
this winter. It is also now touring the US as part of
The
Animation Show and showing at forthcoming festivals
in Finland
and Germany.
There are screenings lined up at
The National Gallery in London, Museum of Modern Art
in New York, and Victory Arts in Dallas, details coming soon.
Previously unavailable artwork from various
productions is currently available to view and buy at
the DVA
gallery in Chicago.
22.12.06
: Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...and its that time of
the year once more. Happy Christmas to one and all,
a big thankyou to all those who have helped
make 2006 such a great vintage for me and here's to
2007 being even better..........
I am taking part in an animate!
event on 6th January,
part of the Halloween
Short Film Festival, should be
good, aaaaaaaaand Rabbit is now online at
Atom Films.
I promise I will update
recent work and biography street
as soon as I can......
14.11.06
: Just back from a few days in the tropics as a
guest at Resfest
Singapore, thanks to everyone there for
making it such a great trip.
Prior to that I was in
Europe, firstly as part of
Impakt festival
in Utrecht, and whilst there I attended the
Holland Animation
Film Festival, where Rabbit was awarded the Grand Prix.
Also had a few days in
Leipzig, as a guest of the
DOK festival.
Rabbit again honoured, this time with the festival's
Golden Dove for animation.
Thanks to the teams behind all three events.
30.10.06
: Rabbit wins the Grand Prix at the Imago
Film Festival in Fundao, Portugal and is awarded a Diploma
at the Balkanima Festival in Belgrade.
Recorded an interview for abc news last week,
CLICK
HERE to view
02.10.06 : At last, the shop is now OPEN
12.09.06
: Arrived back in London on Sunday after
a fantastic 3 weeks criss-crossing Japan and Taiwan
with the family, big shout to Andy and Rumi at Creative
Hybrid in Tokyo for being such good hosts.
Big thankyou also to all at Hiroshima Animation Festival,
where Rabbit picked up a Special Jury Prize and
to the Taiwan Animation Festival in Taipei, who made us feel
so welcome. Thanks also to SCV
in Shizuoka City.
While I was away, Rabbit collected
the McLaren award
for Animation at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Best
Animation Award at the Palm Springs Short Film Festival.
Look out for the forthcoming issue of RES
magazine,
featuring a Run Wrake front cover and interview.
04.08.06 :
A good party in Soho last
night, Rabbit
winning the best animation award at the Rushes
Shorts
festival, handed over by David Soul! Lovely.
Have just completed commercials for Triaminic through
Saatchis in NYC, and illustrations for UK Film Council
diversity website, both will be in recent work soon....
I am off to France tomorrow
to read books and catch
fish, and then off to the far east for festivals in Hiroshima
and Taipei.
Other screenings coming up at Telluride,
Palm Springs, Madrid,
and Edinburgh.
Stocktaking in the shop
is nearly complete, and we'll be
open for business on October 1st. A limited edition DVD
of Rabbit is among the delights available. Have a browse now.
11.06.06
: Rabbit will be screened on August 4th
on a giant 50 foot open-air screen in Hyde Park,
as part of Time Out's 'Park
nights' at the Serpentine
Gallery. It will be shown before the main feature, which I
believe is the 1970 classic, "Performance", should go together
well, and in a great setting.
Also showing at forthcoming festivals in Ireland,
Portugal,
New York, Brazil
and Australia.
More awards in the shape of a diploma of
honour at the Cracow Film Festival, and a special
distinction at Annecy, thanks to the relevant juries.
23.05.06
: Rabbit now available to download (UK
PCs only I'm afraid) at BBC
film network, all comments
gratefully received. Also selected for forthcoming
Onedotzero World tour,
kicking off at the ICA in June.
It has also picked up a couple more awards
at Lisbon Independent Film Festival and Cartoons on
the Bay in Positano.
06.04.06 :
Rabbit wins one of the CFX
Short
Film awards, and will soon exist as a shiny 35mm print.
Forthcoming screenings at festivals in Poland,
Germany,
Australia, Croatia,
South Korea, France,
USA, and
Norway.
BAA
Vol 6 DVD has been released,
featuring a selection of winners from this year's
awards, including Rabbit.
10.03.06
: Rabbit picked up awards for Best Short
Film and Best Film at the Cutting Edge at the British
Animation Awards last night.
28.02.06 :
February has been quite a month. Little
Florence Wrake entered the world on the 15th, 8lb and
perfect in every way. Lisa & I are proud as punch.
Rabbit is currently available to download
for a limited period only, at Lovefilm!
and has received
more nominations, for Best Film and Best Film
at the Cutting Edge, at the British Animation Awards,
Best Film at the Dresden Short Film Festival, and
Cartoons on the Bay in Positano in Italy.
The shop will be opening soon with a selection of original
artwork from Jukebox available for the first time.
Watch this space.
31.01.06 : Just
back from a flying trip to Rotterdam
where Rabbit received a Tiger Award for best short.
23.01.06
: Happy New Year.
2006 gets off to a flyer
with 'Rabbit' receiving a nomination
at this year's
BAFTAS, in the best animated short film category.
The ceremony takes place at the Odeon Leicester Square
on Feb 19th.
Also shortlisted for the Tiger Short Film Award at the 2006
Rotterdam Film Festival,
2006 CFX Short Film Award, and best film
at January's Halloween Film Festival.
27.11.05 :
Channel 4 have announced
that "Rabbit" will
be screened on December 6th at ten past midnight, so
brew up some coffee and set the video.
22.10.05
: And so, as the parasol mushrooms disappear
for another year, the new website arrives...tell
your friends.
"Rabbit", my new short film, completed in August with
funding from the animate!
scheme, has received it's first
screenings : at FACT in
Liverpool, at the Norwich
Animation Festival, and at the NFT and outdoors in Trafalgar
Square as part of the London Film Festival.
It will be airing on Channel 4 in a month or so, details here
as soon as I have them...check recent work
for a taste.