25 Years at the RCA

Venue: Exeter Phoenix
Date: 18th February, 5.30pm–7pm

A selection of brilliant animation presented by Joan Ashworth, Head of Animation at the Royal College of Art. The RCA animation MA has gained an international reputation as one of the best and most creative courses in the world: It’s impressive track record of alumni’s successes ranges from Dreamworks to the recent Oscar-winner Peter & the Wolf. One of the strengths of the RCA MA is the diversity of technique and subject matter, as exemplified in this programme.

£6/5/4

Suitable for 15+

Nightclub

Jonathan Hodgson, 6’02”, 1987

A striking and engaging view of the bizarre rituals and disturbing characters found in Liverpool’s Casablanca Nightclub.

Anyway

Run Wrake , 4’15”, 1994

Mixed media, some sharp observations.

Hilary

Anthony Hodgson, 8’56”, 1994

“Hilary worked in an office with a rubber plant and a man whose name she’d forgotten.”

Surge

Jan Otto Ertesvåg, 0’59”, 1997

Mass: abstract gravity.

Condensed Night

Laurie Proud, 1’56”, 1999

One dark night. Two separate sexual encounters. A gothic-noir journey through sexual perversion and corruption.

The Littlest Robo

Richard Kenworthy, 9’15”, 1999

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in 7 years.” – Mark Twain.

Subida

Kunyi Chen, 3’30”, 2000

Stamp….stamp…stamp…stampstampstampstampsstamp heeltoheel stamp heeltostamp stampstampstampstampstamp into it.

Dog

Suzie Templeton, 5’, 2001

A young boy longs for reassurance about how his mother died.

Post Mark Lick

Sonia Bridge, 4’, 2002

Exploring the materiality and fleeting narractives of the postage stamp, directly exposed onto film with no digital manipulation. A collection of postmarked stamps bearing messages from postcards.

Poor God

Matt Abbiss, 2’30”, 2004

A priest goes to see God for a little chat.

A Perfect Day

Barry Murphy, 1’30”, 2004

Studies of 2D line in a 3D environment.

Guy 101

Ian Gouldstone, 8’, 2005

A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the internet.

Collision

Max Hattler, 2’30”, 2005

Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colours and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection.

Time is Running Out

Marc Reisbig, 5’45”, 2007

A little world is in trouble. The film explores the inhabitants reaction to the impending doom. One man tries to stop the inevitable.

Rabbit Punch

Kristian Andrews, 5’30”, 2008

Nothing happens where we live so we do special ops.

Palimpsest

Pia Borg, 9’00”, 2008

The quotidian becomes hypnotic as the shapes and patterns of pavements come to life.

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