Animation

Total Running Time: 55 min

Full of stunning sights and immersive stories, come get lost in a world of colour and imagination.

Times / Places

Thur 28 Aug.

1200 - 1255

Museum in Docklands

Fri 29 Aug.

1300 - 1355

Cineworld

Sat 30 Aug.

1900 - 1955

East Wintergarden

Sun 31 Aug.

1500 - 1555

Museum in Docklands

The Films


The Accident
Dir. Sarah Nesteruk
Dur. 3min

A childhood memory is presented in a number of ways to reveal the story of an uncle’s unfinished task.
Dancers of the Stolen Heart
Dir. Miho Matsuda
Dur. 6min 33secs

One night, one girl’s strange, beautiful, gleaming heart is stolen by a lonely man.
The Deeply Concerning Dreams of Jayne Fortesque
Dir. Alice Dunseath
Dur. 4min 30secs

A mockumentary about a film star who hates his typecast role of the victim. Stop motion animation represents reality and CGI the film world.
Feasibility Study: Indulging Anxiety
Dir. Ryan Fedyk
Dur. 4min 15secs

An illustration of a man’s anxious emotional struggle the day after being terminated from his job.
Harbinger
Dir. Dulani Wilson
Dur. 3min 20secs

In a futuristic, dystopian Britain, violent protests erupt, and it is Harbinger who signals the coming of absolute change.

Jack
Dir. Emma Ewing
Dur. 4min 55secs

When little Jack’s mother abandons him, the poor tyke seems all but lost. He quickly runs out of money and attracts the interest of the weirdo next door. Who will save poor Jack?
Joystick
Dir. Kevin Richards
Dur. 3min 30secs

The co-dependent nature of relationships, expressing the power of love with a metaphor: a faun comprised of conjoined male and female bodies.





A lavishly painted masterpiece contrasts with the depiction of a nightmarish world. Even in the mind, is escape ever possible?
Landing Lights
Dir. Graham Young
Dur. 4min

An antidote to the prevailing politics of fear. More of a dream than a nightmare. A contemporary haunting.
Like Me, Only Better
Dir. Martin Pickles
Dur. 5min 20secs

A laconic comedy about neuroses, Catholicism and Prozac.

Little Dinosaurs
Dir, Dana Dorian
Dur. 1min 12secs

How a group of small dinosaurs can stop a big dinosaur from picking on them. A lesson for anyone who’s ever been bullied.
Nothing Happened Today
Dir. Réka Gacs
Dur. 4min 48secs

Misunderstood and fake memories of a relationship in the semi-conscious state between awake and asleep.
Sun in the Night Time
Dir. Anne Wilkins
Dur. 3mins 20secs

A story about a mother and a daughter, a son who isn’t there any more, and an imaginary friend called George.