Films produced by Animate

Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no...

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

A maid and her mistress in an Edward Hopper hotel, in a jazz-inflected piece about women's solitude and swapped identities, mixing live action and...

Short stop motion animation Directed by Paul Bush

Who I Am And What I Want is a 7 minute animated short directed by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley in 2005. Based on the David Shrigley book of the...

Mixed animation and live action techniques tell the stories of those with a schizophrenic parent, childhood scenes in which everyday events gradually...

A vivid imagination can offer a seductive distraction from life’s duties. Showers of twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks turn in...

A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s 52nd Street...

A tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities...

Time-slice reconstructions of three reported incidents in which people and supposedly friendly animals meet badly: a postman kills a dog, a dog...

In an office world of half light, flickering fluorescent tubing, ringing phones and monotonous paperwork, the residents sit trapped in a state of...

Created through a process of close collaboration between director, performer and crew, this thoroughly eccentric and stylistically original film does...

A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces - city, motorway, forest, coast and sea - using pen and ink drawn interventions into a live...

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

The tale of a quest to free Napoleon Bonaparte from exile on the island of St Helena, including fresh insight into the mystery of The Emperor's...

Sam Moore's Doubled Up tells of the shock and awe of finding out she was expecting twins. The film is an opulent and multi-faceted song of love,...

Construed in the time of running clouds, a panoramic and another examination of vacant buildings on the British shore (Orford Ness), a deserted place...

‘A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments, seen under a microscope can quickly confirm the existence of another world. This is the...

An over-protective mother sends her seven-year-old daughter out to post a letter. Knocked off course, the girl wanders a drawn landscape of hanging...

Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no...

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

A maid and her mistress in an Edward Hopper hotel, in a jazz-inflected piece about women's solitude and swapped identities, mixing live action and...