#Manchester Animation Festival

[disneytva]

Disney Europe Middle-East and Africa CEO Orion Ross was part of Manchester Animation Festival where they showcases clips for Dragon Striker and Magicampers and new images from The Doomies and The Sunnyridge 3

Additionaly Disney Europe Animation is also working with so many talented African directors and studios for upcoming animated story-driven serialized and preschool shows for Disney+

[somecynicalanimator]

Module - Professional & Cultural Context

We held no lectures this week, as Manchester Animation Festival was held this week. This was my first time visiting the festival, getting to visit the MAF Marketplace, where a number of studios had set up shop, such as Aardman, Blue Zoo, Realtime, Flipbook Studios & Karrot. Getting to see demoreels of all these different companies was interesting, while also seeing armatures from companies like Aardman have used in the past of their productions. Even if I focus more on 2-D than Stop Motion, being able to see professionally made armatures was fascinating. Being able to discuss my work, and their work, with each studio set up there was an important step for me, the first time I've felt more like a practitioner on somewhat more equally ground than as a student. Other institutions such as ScreenSkills and Edge Hill University were there. Getting to speak to some familiar faces from Edge Hill made me think about how important networking can be, having connections and knowing people giving me opportunities I wouldn't ever be able to find on my own. While I was there, I also managed to take some business cards from the studios I talked to. Looking at these business cards has given me some ideas about what I could make my business card look like, as they've given me a good idea of what a professional card so feature. Given the contacts I managed to make there, I am also considering refining my showreel, so I can send it to these different studios and receive feedback on how I could improve it.

[baanimationbournemouth]

Great news in festival land. Manchester Animation Festival have selected Noise Film and Suburb to screen at Manchester Animation Festival 2022.

Suburb will play in the Student Films 2 programme as part of the official competition.

Noise Film has been selected to play Out of Competition as part of the Student Panorama programme.

Both films will also take part in the online section of the festival.

Manchester Animation Festival will take place at HOME - Manchester's centre for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books - from the 13th – 18th of November 2022.

Congratulations to all.

[isanimalcrossingswitchoutyet]

[jwrightyart]

Thank you @deadnorthernofficial for having @mercurymachine fictional mind play at your festival in the Music Videos section amongst other cool horror music videos #animation #musicvideo #rock #manchester #2d #handdrawn #music #horror #fictionalmind #framebyframeanimation #plaguedoctor #scary #mercurymachine #feelthereel #internationalfilmfestival #filmfestival #film #festival #animationart #animationfestival #cartoon #horrorfestival #horrorfilm #horrorfilmfestival #horrorfilmmaking #horrorshort #horroraddict #horrorlover #horrormovies https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci5IVQqKMke/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dhiings]

𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ Jane's family ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼

Jane's an only child. She used to live with both of her father and mother in Scotland  But, after her father passed away, she and her mother decided to move to South Korea.

CAVAN ENNIS ANNISTON [papa] BORN : October 24, 1965, Manchester, United Kingdom DIED : December 25,  2006 SPOUSE : Choi Hwa Young (1994--2006) CHILDREN : 1 ETHNICITY : British  OCCUPATION : Veterinary CLOSENESS : 5/5 NICKNAME BY JANE : papa others... • Her father treat her like a princess. If there's anything Jane wants, he will get/buy/made it for her . Literally, the definition of papa's princess. • Their love languages toward each other are mainly quality time, acts of service, and physical touch. • Jane was told that when she was still a toddler, she get very jealous when her father is only paying attention to her mother. • Always stick like a glue, even when her father is working in a vet clinic his dad owns. • Since her father passed away on Christmas Day, she decided to tell her mother that she doesn't enjoy Christmas as she used to be. So, they stopped celebrating it in like festive way and treat it like a normal day passing by. • Her favourite memories w/ her papa : Going to loch/lake during winter time to learn ice skating. Visiting her dad's vet clinic. Bedtime stories. Her father sharing all kinds of information about animal life, especially the one who live in ocean/water(?). Seeing her father brought bouquet for her mom and herself.

CHOI HWA YOUNG (최화영) [eomma] BORN : April 19, 1970, Seoul, South Korea SPOUSE : Cavan Ennis Anniston (1994--2006) CHILDREN : 1 ETHNICITY : Korean OCCUPATION : Medical Director  CLOSENESS : 4/5 NICKNAME BY JANE : eomma others.. • Compared to her father, Jane didn't spend that much time with her mother as a kid because her mother was busy with her study and work in the medicine field. • Because of her busy schedule, her mother make it up by having a mother-daughter day every twice a week. • Their love languages toward each other are mainly words of affirmation, receiving gifts, and physical touch. • Her mother is heart broken when she knows her daughter was bullied in school when she moved to Seoul. She decided to move her to international school so she could adjust better. • Jane's finally getting to know her grandparents when she moved to Korea. They love her so much. • Iconic moment when Jane just found out that her mother's side is very verry rich on internet several years after her debut. • Her favourite memories w/ her eomma : Learning how to do pottery in the garage but ended up sping cleaning it because it got very messy and slashed of clay everywhere. Collecting shells when going to a beach. Picnic in a field full of bellflower. Baking madeira cake and jammy dodgers as a tradition for every year, it started because her mother wants to make it for her husband but kept on failing, thus why she always practice to make it until it's perfect with Jane.

[papaver-decervicatus]

Headcanons- Simon "Ghost" Riley

Sorry in advance, these are the least organized by FAR and the longest because Roach is my all time fav COD character so a lot of Simon's is just "this is how I would put roach in the story :)" and I also love tattoos and piercings so

Birthday December 22nd, 1993

Early life

The calculation used for his birth year was that he would have been about 29 during the events of MW2 (he enlisted at 17 in 2001, so in 2013 during MW2 he would’ve been about 29.) Therefore, 2022-1993 would be 29 years old during the MWII campaign.

Born in a small rural village outside of Manchester, but moved to the city when he was 10.

His mother, Meredith met his father, Paul at a music festival in Manchester and became pregnant shortly after.

She had Simon at 17 and married Paul, 23, at the urging of her devoutly Protestant parents once they found out she was pregnant.

His father was a construction worker, and was terribly abusive to his family, his mother never had a job or a way to escape because she was practically abandoned by her family after Simon’s birth.

Tommy was 4 years younger.

Undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder. Mostly manifests in masking, sensory issues, unwillingness to break schedules, etc. 

I consider most of the Ghost comic canon, except moved up to the appropriate time. 

Specialty Section: Roach

I can't wait for this all to need a rewrite in November

Grew up with Gary Roach Sanderson. Some headcanons about Gary include

Is not deaf, but both of his parents are so he almost exclusively communicated in BSL as a child. 

Simon was one of the “weird kids” from a combination of his autism and abusive home life. The two got put together on a project once and were inseparable ever since. 

Gary definitely always had more energy but Simon was the more outgoing of the two. Simon used to be a very outgoing, casual flirt to the point that Gary would have to drag him away from parties. (The personality of MW2 Ghost, very talkative.)

The two are like brothers. They enlisted at the same time.

Simon and Gary got into some minor teenage shenanigans, drinking, smoking at school, playing truant, etc. they both were definitely the sort of kids that went under the radar, nothing special. 

Gary got his name Roach from escaping various explosions relatively unscathed, which led to the joke “only a nuke could kill Roach”. 

Unfortunately, this was not the case. Roach lost both his left arm and leg in an IED explosion of which he was the only survivor. He retired from combat after this and now works remotely as a radio technician and software engineer for the SAS in Manchester. 

Ghost genuinely considered retiring to help take care of Roach, but Roach wouldn’t let him. He knows Simon can’t really live in a civilian setting anymore. 

Ghost lives with Roach when on leave and not doing other things. He the only person outside of the army he really considers a friend that knows his full story.

Brief and nonspecific timeline

As a private, was under Price’s US friend for a few missions. Put in a good word and had him and Gary sent to Price. 

Met Price as a corporal, at the time he was charismatic, flirtatious, and generally outgoing after he got over his initial month or so of shyness. Was in Price’s squad for a mission along with Roach. 

Went back and specially trained with prices US sniper friend. This is where Simon met Alex as well. 

 All of her Snipers got names based on “pest animals” (affectionately named “Pest Patrol” or “The Critter Corps” by graduates and Price.)

Gary got Roach for being able to bounce back from any explosion

Alex got Cotton Mouth because he casually picked one up and broke its neck during training once

Simon got the name “Possum” because he was incredibly skilled at “playing possum” or playing dead. Survived multiple really tight missions for his ability to blend in with corpses. 

Went to a different squad, gains his Lieutenant rank

Roba happens, Ghost is born. 

Captain Price pulls a lot of strings for Simon to make "the Ghost" a tenable position. This makes Price a lot of enemies out of higher-ups but he doesn’t give a damn. 

Ghost and Roach are put into a squad together not with price. Work together for three or so years before the IED that wounds Roach. 

Roach retires. Ghost bounces around positions because he’s legally “an asset” and not a man anymore. 

Task force 141. Knows Gaz for about a year before he meets Soap in Las Almas.

General

He is triggered by Christmas and the holiday season, he found his family massacred on his birthday so neither Christmas or his Birthday are a positive association anymore. 

The only person who’s given him a birthday or Christmas present since the massacre is Gaz, which didn’t upset Ghost like he thought it would. Mostly because Gaz didn’t know and Ghost couldn’t have expected him to. 

Does not have any technology besides a cellphone and a computer he is required to for his job. The only three non-work related numbers in his phone are his tattoo artist/piercer, Roach, and his therapist

He genuinely enjoys gardening and baking but doesn’t do them frequently because of his life status. 

Has a terrible, terrible, terrible sweet tooth, when he can get away with it. When no one is around this man is putting 5 heaping tablespoons of sugar in his tea, but no milk. Never milk. 

Doesn’t like hard or sour candy, but does enjoy chocolate and biscuits. 

He can, and will, and frequently does, eat all three meals in one sitting. He will eat 400 grams of protein in 4,000 calories in 20 minutes. He eats alone in his room because this shit terrifies people.

Endothermic body build, he’s built like a rugby player. His musculature is not “lean and mean” he is built like a discus thrower.

VENUS DIMPLES

When in public only wears a black surgical mask so as not to frighten others 

It’s specifically to cover his Glasgow smile and lip scarring, which is prominent on his lower face

Jeans, t-shirts, hoodies, trainers, the occasional football-themed jersey or cap, nothing special 

He has a fake civilian identity that not even Price knows the details of for anonymity's sake.

Has a full sleeve of tattoos and also a patchwork arm sleeve

He's actually famous in the Manchester tattoo scene as a lot of apprentices' first human canvas, under his fake civilian name of course.

Originally he got the war sleeve after his first deployment but went back after he became Ghost to get a tattoo over Roba’s name that was burned into him

The first tattoo artist asked him what tattoos he wanted on the wall and he said “All of 'em.”

His current tattoo artist is a scarification expert, she helped him design a piece to cover Roba’s name on his left hip, it’s a memorial piece to his family with the names “Merideth, Tommy, Beth, and Joey” held on a scroll by an Angel with the massacre date in Roman numerals

He continues to go back to this artist whenever he wants new ink, she is also his piercer. He does not care about his body and the ink on it, so she tries to schedule apprentices with him as their first because he can sit well/is not picky about his ink.

She sends him various pieces of body jewelry for his piercings at random under the guise of “let me know how this goes, wanna know if I can recommend it” etc but it’s really because she cares about him but also knows he won’t let her get him gifts for no reason. 

A massive picture of his pierced nipple is in her shop as an example of her work

Has a shitton of piercings including but not limited to:

Quadruple lopes

Two conch

Rooks

Helix

Flats

Industrial (left only)

Bridge (taken out, since healed)

Tongue

Smiley

Lower lip (taken out, since healed)

He’s missing his left nipple, so he has both a vertical and horizontal nipple piercing on his right 

4 Jacob’s ladder

Prince Albert's

Ghost wanted a married life and a family before Roba but does not anymore. He intends on dying in the field, he does not think about kids or retirement or alternative careers or dating. He loved Joseph and Tommy and Beth and his mum with all his heart and was a little jealous of the happy companionship they'd found for themselves, he stopped wanting it when he realized how quickly it could be taken away.

Typically avoids attachments because he knows how “loose ends” can end up harming loved ones. He has failed at this, very very very badly.

Ghosts most toxic trait is that he is falsely cynical. He will tell himself til he's blue in the face that he doesn't really care, it doesn't really matter, he doesn't really deserve love, that it's just not important when in reality he cares deeply. Caring is a liability so he tries very hard to cut that part of his brain out, he works out, he doesn't socialize, he avoids attachments because he is convinced he will ruin it for others. He doesn't even know what it is, until it's too late, just like how it took Johnny in Las Almas almost dying for him to open up to him.

Talents, special bonds, ETC

Trained to be a butcher in high school, before he and Roach joined the army. He retained his butchering and knife skills from this time.

Phenomenal aim, he can throw even the least aerodynamic thing and it will hit it's target.

He is a great baker, but a terrible cook besides grilling. No one knows its him, but he will leave trays of fresh baked goods in base rec-rooms.

Surprisingly, he is the softest on recruits when they mess up. He has an uncannily calm ability to diffuse most any situation and turn it into a learning experience, he also will not tell Price if he doesn't think it's that bad.

The inverse of this is if it's bad, his explosion about it is fucking bad.

Kids gravitate towards him and when push comes to shove he is great with kids. He is not terribly comfortable around children but kids love him. Its bittersweet because they remind him of Joey.

Is incredibly close with both Gaz and Soap but in different ways. He sees them both as reflections of him and Roach. As much shit as he gives them, he could not see himself without Gaz's quiet and calm understanding helping him remember how to be human or Soap's loud and explosive personality helping him remember just what being alive feels like.

Price may see Ghost as an equal, but Ghost does not see Price as one, he considers Price very far above him in every possible way. He does not know what Price sees in him.

[amphtaminedreams]

June 2021->June 2023: Photo Dump No.23

DATE SAVED, L-R BY ROW:

11th July 2021 [Bella Hadid photographed in Miami, December 2019], 10th November 2021 [Southbank, Lambeth], 26th June 2023, 24th August 2022 [GIANT Art Gallery, Bournemouth Town Centre], 16th September 2022 [Et Ochs RTW S/S23], 30th June 2023, 2nd March 2023, 28th November 2021 [the Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea], 27th June 2023 [Lyme Regis, Dorset]

26th September 2023, 1st June 2023 [Colors Festival @ Camden Lock, Camden], 10th January 2023 [Scorpio Platform Boot, Shelly’s London S/S23], 15th September 2023 [Bermondsey, Southwark], 24th September 2022, 8th December 2022 [Twisted Museum, Oxford Circus], 22nd July 2023 [Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons @ the Factory International, Deansgate, Manchester], 6th September 2023, 14th November 2021 [Glass Animals live @ Portsmouth Guildhall, Hampshire]

17th February 2022, 29th September 2022, 17th October 2021 [the Other Art Fair @ the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane], 12th July 2023, 31st May 2023 [source: instagram account @howtobehumanpod], 26th August 2023 [Salou, Tarragona], 9th April 2022 [source: instagram @_brightsouls_], 5th September 2021 [John Galliano RTW S/S92], 27th August 2023 [Salou, Tarragona]

31st March 2023 [He Cong photographed by Leslie Zhang for Marie Claire China, issue 298, April 2023], 28th August 2023, 15th July 2021 [Normani BTS on the set of the “Wild Side" music video, released July 2021], 27th May 2023 [source: instagram account @howtobehumanpod], 30th May 2023 [details @ Coach RTW F/W23], 13th March 2022, 21st July 2023, 23rd August 2023 [Sitges, Catalonia], 27th September 2023 [The Design Museum, Kensington]

27th September 2023 [“Hallgarth” boots, Roker RTW F/W23 @ REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion exhibition, the Design Museum, Kensington], 15th March 2024, 1st December 2022 [Yayoi Kusama: Mirror Infinity Rooms exhibition @ Tate Modern, Bankside], 28th July 2021 [Christchurch, Dorset], 22nd March 2023, 3rd February 2024 [source: instagram account @sadborderlinebitxh], 14th February 2024 [Luar RTW F/W24], 16th March 2024 [CUTE exhibition @ Somerset House, Strand], 11th August 2021 [Beyonce shot by Campbell Addy for Harper's Bazaar, August 2021]

8th January 2024 [Disneyland Paris, Marne-la-Vallée], 7th December 2022 [Liberty London, Soho], 9th December 2023, 13th December 2023, 3rd November 2021 [Ulyana Sergeenko, Haute Couture S/S19], 29th December 2021 [Untitled from the Fractal Scars, Salt Water and Tears collection, Ester Teichmann @ GIANT Art Gallery, Bournemouth), 30th November 2022 [source: instagram account @mantramagazine], 9th January 2024 [Marne-la-Vallée, France], 28th May 2023 [Elle & Dakota Fanning, February 2023, via @ellefanning on instagram]

6th May 2023 [source: instagram account @howtobehumanpod], 1st August 2021 [Dua Lipa wearing archive Jean Paul Gaultier on the set of the “Demeanor” video, released July 2021], 9th August 2023 [the Southbank Centre, Lambeth], 29th December 2021 [It's a Rave Dave exhibition @ GIANT Art Gallery, Bournemouth], 21st July 2023, 28th October 2023 [Nili Lotan RTW F/W23], 31st October 2023 [Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets], 15th October 2023], 1st November 2023 [Disney, 100 Exhibition @ ExCel Centre, Custom House]

5th April 2024 [Museo Picasso, Málaga], 8th February 2024 [Bella Hadid for Italian Vogue, May 2024 issue], 28th July 2021 [Bournemouth Centre, Dorset], 23rd January 2024 [source: instagram account @wrencraftt], 21st March 2023, 28th September 2023 [Philipp Plein Resort 2024], 9th February 2024, 21st August 2023 [source: instagram account @_mysunbeam], 7th April 2024 [Benalmádena, Andalusia]

9th April 2024 [Málaga, Andalusia], 29th August 2021 [source: instagram account @aniko.arts], 4th April 2024, 21st June 2023 [Summer Exhibition @ the Royal Academy, Mayfair], 10th May 2023 [Zendaya photographed by Elizaveta Porodina for Vogue Italia, July 2022 issue], 2nd October 2023 [source: instagram account @eggsdoodz], 14th July 2021 [Lana Del Rey performing live @ L'Olympia, Paris, 27th April 2013], 22nd December 2023 [source: Pinterest account @gobrielle], 30th March 2024 [Hove, East Sussex]

February 2nd 2023 [Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924-Today @ the Design Museum, Kensington], 10th April 2024 [Benalmádena, Andalusia], 3rd April 2024 [Mijas Pueblo, Andalusia], 19th September 2021 [Van Gogh Alive lmmersive Exhibition, Kensington Gardens, London], 7th November 2023 [Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture F/W23], 28th October 2023 [Bermondsey Street, Bermondsey], 2nd April 2024 [Benalmádena, Andalusia], 10th April 2024, 10th April 2024

[mayakern]

Omg - part of the reason I got the bee skirt (in both midi and mini) is because I used to work at Manchester Animation Festival (and still attend) and it perfectly matches the logo. The zoetrope skirt would be PERFECT for the animation festival too!!

omg thats very cute 🥺🥺

[riesenlied]

Is it in any uk festivals? 👀 I might be going to the Manchester animation festival this year...

Hii! You will unfortunately not find the film there. Didn't manage to submit it there. (I recommend you still go! More people need to know about and go to animation festivals. They're great.) I also got a rejection from another UK festival just 3 days ago. It did actually screen in the UK once, at Indie-Lincs in Lincoln in February. (But I failed to actually let people here know). There are 5 other UK festivals I am currently waiting for a response from. With projected notification dates spanning from October to April. 😅 I hope to submit it to more of them, of course.

[disneytva]

Disney Europe Animation Secretly Announces New Serialized Animated Comedy "ENKI" Manchester Animation Festival

Disney Europe Middle-East and Africa CEO Orion Ross was part of Manchester Animation Festival, the panel featured a showcase of their upcoming slate "Dragon Striker","The Doomies","The Sunnyridge 3" and Disney Junior "Magicampers".

One of the NDA projects is "ENKI" which audiences have described it as "absolutely beautiful - we love those giant purple pineapples!", probably will hear more about it on Annecy Film Festival 2024.

[lagroupie]

Interview: Life - North East Coastal Town

Life at Croc' The Rock festival, shot with my good old Nikon.

Back in October 2023 at Croc the Rock festival, I wrote an email to the British band Life to ask them if they would be down for an interview. I had discovered them live at Paleo Festival a couple years ago, and I thought they sounded amazing. The band kindly agreed and I met with Mez and Stew backstage a couple hours before their set to have a chat. As we talked, I discovered that we shared the same working-class background.

Join us as they tell me about their hometown Hull and their favorite places, their record North East Coastal Town, their day to day lives as a band and more. Many thanks to Life for taking the time to have a chat with me and letting me take pictures!

I know that your latest album North East Coastal Town came out back in 2022, but I still wanted to talk about the theme of Hull, your city, which is reflected in the record. What is your life like when you are not touring, and do you have any recommendations if I ever visit your city?

Mez: For us, Hull is like our anchor. It’s what we would describe as our moral compass, or our inspiration. So making an album like North East Coastal Town was always going to naturally come to us. We all live and work in Hull. We’ve never throught about moving away. Sometimes, people say ‘why don’t you move to London?’ or ‘Why don’t you move to Manchester?’. But Hull is very important to us. It’s embedded in our fabric. The sense of community and family there, everyone looking out for each other. It’s a very fiece city of independence as well. There’s a lot of creating stuff that’s going on in Hull and that’s really inspiring to us. We wrote that album for that.

As for places to recommend, most of us live in a postcode area called HU5. There’s a coffee place called Higher Ground, a bar called Dive, another bar called Pave and my brother (ndlr: Mick, the guitarist) works in a bar called 80 days, it’s a German Bier Haus. It’s very small and intimate, you can go there and talk to people. There’s a lot of bands and creatives that go in there as well. Any other recommendations Stew?

Stew: There’s a thing called the Deep. It’s like an underwater Sea World, it has sharks and penguins.

Mez: It’s the largest subaquarium in Europe. To be fair, there’s one where our hotel is.

Do you mean Aquatis? (ndlr: an aquarium showcasing fish and animals living in fresh water located in Lausanne.)

Mez: Yes. So the one in Hull is kind of like that, but bigger and out on the sea.

Stew: There’s also a big landmark called Humber Bridge, which used to be the biggest single-span bridge in the world. It’s a mile long, and it’s a really beautiful bridge, like the Golden Gate bridge.

Mez on stage at Croc' The Rock festival, shot with my Nikon.

Do you manage to make music full time?

Stew: No. (laughs)

Mez: Before the pandemic, we were kind of full time. But since then, the music landscape has changed. We’ve always had careers though. We all work within the community or creatively.

Stew: We’ve made choices that we’re happy with. We want to do the band as we want to, so we’ve made sacrifices and conscious decisions not to just follow the industry. Because we disagree with a lot of it, and if that means that we have to work other jobs, that’s fine. We’d rather keep our intergrity and authenticity, rather than what the industry expects us to do. We’ve all got so many things going on that we got a lot out of part of being workers in our city, doing things for our community.

Mez: If you took away the fact that you were a full-time musician, sometimes that might actually take away some of the creativity. We get a lot of influence from what we’re doing day to day. And it keeps you grounded. We would never turn our back on that. I’ve had that chance and embracing that is totally cool, but sometimes maybe it detaches you from what you’re doing.

Stew: When we were full time, we missed that connection with being at home, and being everyday people. Living in a bubble of touring can mess with your head, because it’s quite a hard life in terms of constantly moving. You need to get back to reality and be grounded to inspire your music. It’s not that we’re ungrateful for doing that, but I think we’ve gained a lot from making the decision to do it how we want to do it.

In Hull, we’ve managed to use a cheap place to live. So we can afford our own studio, creative office and record label (ndlr: Afghan Moon). We’ve got everything we need. We don’t need anymore. We’re not greedy people, we don’t need be famous and earn lots of money. We just need to be friends in a band that can survive.

Mez: And be self-sufficient.

Stew: Actually, we had to stay grounded because we’re all working class people. We didn’t get money from our parents. We have families to look after as well. So we have to be realistic. So it’s a choice, but we don’t know any other way.

I also wanted to talk about your latest music video, for the song Our Love Is Growing. The video seems to be recorded on an older camera.

Mez: We tend to document a lot of stuff, and we use whatever we we’ve got around. We had a lot of old hand-held cameras. For us, that record was about being intimate. The whole record described our community and our feelings at the time. When we look back at the footage we’ve recorded, there’s bits where we’re just actually just scratching the surface of the songs. We look quite fragile, and that’s what we wanted to portray. It meant a lot for us.

Stew: I’m a photographer and a film-maker myself, so I’m always documenting everything. We ended up recording the whole album in two days. We recorded it live at Chapel studios. We didn’t have a lot of time to document it- I was drumming for two days. And months later, when I looked at the footage, the only song we documented was Our Love Is Growing. We didn’t know at the time, but that was the only footage from that studio recording. It was almost meant to be. We don’t have a lot of money to make music videos, so those kind of homemade videos mean a lot to us, because aesthetically we want them to feel personal. It shows that you can still do something powerful with nothing, and that’s what we’re about really.

Life at Croc' The Rock fest, still shot with my Nikon.

I was also wondering about the song Incomplete – as I listened to the record, it sounded different from the other tracks. Do you remember how it was written?

Mez: This song is from my brother. It seems separate, because most of the songs are written from my perspective, and then Mick brought that one in. We’re talking about the day to day grind, the day to day living – from the start to the end of the day. It’s a classic songwriting, a bit like Kurt Vile. Our fist album, Popular Music, was all about the 9 to 5 grind.

Stew: I think it’s a product of the lockdown as well. We write a lot together, but I think it was a song that Mick wrote at home. It was his idea, and we turned it into what we wanted it to be. It’s interesting from my perspective, because I don’t write lyrics. Mick and Mez both write together and separately from the same kind of experiences, but in different styles. Mez brings a lot of abstract into it and Mick is more on the side of commentary on everyday life.

Overall, I really liked the care you put into the lyrics in general. It’s kind of refreshing.

Mez: As the vocalist – when you listen to bands, often the lyrics are the last thing that come. But for me, the lyrics are an instrument. If Stew plays an amazing drum set, the lyrics have to perform as well. If I’m not bringing that, then I’m not owning my instrument.

Stew: The way Mez writes is interesting. He doesn’t write music, but he will come with words. He’ll tell us what the song sounds like in his head. We all have different ways of writing and sharing music, but the majority of what we do happens without words. We just get in a room and it naturally comes togeher.

Mez: Sometimes, we’ll be in the room and the band will be playing. They won’t know that I’ve written anything. They won’t even have asked me what lyrics I’ve got. And I’ll listen to that particular thing they’re jamming, and that’s when I’ll deliver one of the lyrics I’ve got.

Stew: We don’t have any set of rules or ego problem with who does what. I’m the drummer, but I’ll pick up a guitar and write something, and Lydia might go on the drums. We just write music, it doesn’t matter where it comes from. Because we’ve got our own studio, we record everything. So we’ve got hours and hours of recordings – just shit and rubbish! But in there, there will be loads of nice bits.

Mez: It might be one phrase with one loop of music.

Stew: It will be an interesting document over the years. For example, we’ve got ten versions of a song that led to the version on the album.

If you had to drink one thing for the rest of your lives, what would you choose between tomato juice and red wine?

Mez: You know what? This is going to sound sad, but I buy tomato juice most weeks.

Stew: I mean, if I had to drink something, I’d say tomato juice is fine. Because I wouldn’t want to be an alcoholic. But red wine tastes better.

Mez: I mean, I do like red wine as well. So I’d be on the fence.

Either you live a long life, but you are bored, or you die quickly, but happy. (laughs)

Mez: I’d go red wine.

Stew: I’d go quick and happy.

Lydia: I’d go with tomato juice. It’s a meal and a drink!

Stew: What about a bloody mary? (laughs)

What can we expect from Life in the future?

Mez: At the moment, we’re demo-ing and writing our 4th album. We have a lot of concepts in place.

https://www.lifeband.co.uk/

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[baanimationbournemouth]

We are delighted to announce that we have a whopping three graduate animations screening in the Animated shorts section at Manchester Film Festival.

This year is the 10th edition of Manchester Film Festival.

The festival will be taking place in the Odeon, Great Northern in Manchester from Friday the 15th March to Sunday the 24th March, featuring a line-up from across the globe.

Huntress, Static Focus and Ego Death will all be screened on the 24th of March.

[aboutanimation]

All Those Sensations in my Belly from Adriatic Animation on Vimeo.

While transitioning from male to female gender, Matia struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship with a heterosexual man.

Director, scriptwriter, editor: Marko Dješka With participation: Matia Anna Pleše Art director, designer: Hana Tintor Animation: Hana Tintor, Laura Martinović, David Lovrić, Marko Dješka, Draško Ivezić Interviews: Ljubica Letinić, Maja Flajsig Dramaturgy: Ivor Martinić Artistic advisor: Chintis Lundgren Music: Sofie Birch, Gustavo Lima Sound design: Pedro Marinho Sound editing: Bernardo Bento Foley: Francisca Campos Sound mix: Vasco Carvalho Voice recording: Jure Buljević Producer: Draško Ivezić (Adriatic Animation) Co-producers: David Doutel, Vasco Sá (BAP animation studio) Distribution: Bonobostudio bonobostudio.hr/en/distribution/all-those-sensations-in-my-belly .. adriaticanimation.hr/ .. Marko Dješka (1983) is an animation director, scriptwriter and comic book artist. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Animated Film and New Media. His student films Slaughtered and The Son of Satan, as well as his first professional film Ghost Town have been awarded at numerous film festivals. Marko is one of the founders of the studio for animated film, Adriatic Animation. Filmography:

All Those Sensations in My Belly (2020), Ghost Town (2016) The Son of Satan (2012, student film) Slaughtered (2010, student film)

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markodjeska.com/ instagram.com/markocomix/ .. All Those Sensations in my Belly awards/mentions: �Best Film in Balkan Competition, Anibar International Animation Festival, Peja, Kosovo 2020 �Special Mention in Croatian Competition, Animafest Zagreb, Croatia 2020 �Best Croatian Short Film, Festival mediteranskog filma Split, Croatia 2021 �Best Film Award, I+N Festival Courts Queer Short Film Fest, Montreal, Canada 2021 �Best Innovation Award, I+N Festival Courts Queer Short Film Fest, Montreal, Canada 2021 � Flickers' Youth Film Jury First Prize for the Best LGBTQ Film, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA 2021 �Special Mention, Festival MiX Festival Internazionale di Cinema Lgbtq+ e Cultura Queer, Milano, Italy 2021 �Best Animation, Linz International Short Film Festival, Linz, Austria 2021 �Best Script, Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), Canada 2021 �Best European Short Film, 3D Wire Fest / Weird Market International Animation Market and Festival, Spain 2021 �Special Mention, Videomedeja Video Art Association, Video Art Library & Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia 2021 �Special Mention, Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote, Italy 2021 �WIA Diversity Award, Spark3D Animation Festival/Women in Animation, Canada 2021 �Special Jury Prize, Большой фестиваль мультфильмов Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia 2021 �Special mention, Festival Festival Cinéma et Droits Humains, Paris, France 2021 �Youth Jury Award for Best Short Film, Exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany 2021 �Best International Short Film, Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, Israel 2021 �Special Mention, Manchester Animation Festival, UK 2021 �Best Short Film, SocialMed Mediterranean Human Rights Festival, Valencia, Spain 2021 �Special Mention, Merlinka International Queer Film Festival, Serbia 2021 �Special Mention in Monstrinha Competition, Monstra Lisbon Animated Film Festival, Lisabon, Portugal 2022 �Junior Jury Award, Animocje International Animated Film Festival, Bigdozsc, Poland 2022 �Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation, International Filmmaker Festival of New York, USA 2022 �Jury's Personal Pick (Asako Fujioka) in A Slice of Society Category, Hiroshima Animation Season, Japan 2022 �Best film in international category, Animasivo International Animation Festival, Mexico City, Mexico 2022

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[praxedis]

Downfall from rona fayad on Vimeo.

Enya's journey trying to make it as a dancer is hindered as her behaviors drag her downhill.

Animated and Directed by Rona Fayad Sound Design and Music by Ryan Fayad

Awards: - Best Music Video Award - Animocje, Poland - Audience Award - Icona 2021 Animation Festival - Audience Award - Animaphix International Animation Festival, Italy - Special Mention - Lago Film Fest, Italy

Festival Screenings: - Manchester Animation Festival, UK - PÖFF Shorts (Black Nights Film Festival), Estonia - Pictoplasma, Germany - Arab Film Festival Zurich, Switzerland - Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland - Festival of Animation - Berlin - Imaginaria, Italy - OFF - Odense International Film Festival, Denmark - Nickel Independent Film Festival, Canada - Très Court International Film Festival, France - Ficam, Morocco - Leiden shorts, Netherlands - La Guarimba Film Festival, Italy - Flatpack Festival, UK - Annecy Festival, France - Athens Animfest, Greece - Cardiff Animation Festival, UK - Anima - Brussels International Animation Film Festival, Belgium - Piaff - Paris International Film Festival, France - International Film Festival ZOOM - ZBLIŻENIA, Poland - Reanimania International Animation Film & Comics Art Festival of Yerevan, Armenia