A character is drawn then brushed away only to return and endure repeated clashes with the creator. Winner of the Oscar for Best Animated short in 1992.
A bedtime story for adults. Based on a Hoffman story, this nail-biting gothic version of the classic story conveys the full horror of the original-and also offers another reading as a primer in Jungian theories:sleep equals denial of life, unconsciousness is therefore an invitation to death.
This enigmatic work bears a certain literary weight, not unlike a wordless Beckett play. In five minutes of stop-action clay animation both brooding and scintillating, the saint inspector shows a higher being in a state of pious bliss enduring the attentions of a meddling official from some sort of high altitude bureaucracy.
Old Mr. Pascal dreams of his youth as he sits beside a crucifix. He then decides to liberate the tortured figure of Christ and the world about him is transformed.
Winner of the BAFA for animated short and an Oscar nominee a year later. This brilliant pastiche of Hollywod movies, featuring three versions of Kirk Douglas at different ages, caught the attention of Quentin Tarrantino, who insisted it was released in the UK as a short with his own debut feature Pulp Fiction.
A little old lady shops by post for an inflatable friend but the goods fall short of her expectations. Nominated for an Oscar in 1985. With her partner David Fine, Snowden later won an Oscar for their short film Bob's birthday.
This film follows the residents of a tenement block who's interwoven lives are made tougher by the tension and stress of city life. We watch to see how various stressful events of the day make them behave and in turn have a knock on effect on others.
The Film in which the creator of the internet's most downloaded animation piece, Angry Kid, developed his own distinctive technique of combining masks with pixillated live-action.
Just an experiment, made up as i went, no real plot, and i couldent get him to walk due to the armature inside. The scenes that make sense i never filmed, i also left the shadows in because i couldent be bothered to re film it. It took about 10 mins to film each scene.
