Big Man Japan – Film/Animation Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Combining Live Action and CG Animation, and taking major influence from Japanese monster movies, such as Godzilla, Big Man Japan was the final film screening at the Manipulate Visual Arts Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Showing in conjunction with Scotland Loves Animation (an organisation promoting Japanese animation in Scotland and founders of the...
Cloud Eye Control @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Los Angeles based theatre group Cloud Eye Control have developed 3 short theatre pieces that involve animation, motion graphics and innovative use of projection and shadow. This is the American troupes first trip to the UK and it is part of the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. The first performance...
Consuming Spirits – Animation Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Consuming Spirits took 15 years to make and was finally completed in 2012. The film combines several animation styles and techniques including hand drawn, stop motion, but mostly paper cut out. The film can be seen as an animation epic and puts Director and Animator Chris Sullivan up there with other auteurs such as Bill...
Snapshots – The Making of Longbird – Short Film Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
The Making of Longbird was the fourth and final screening during the Snapshots strand at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. What made this screening so significant was that the animation screen 24 hours before it won the Bafta award for Short Animation., a fine triumph for a recent graduate...
Snapshots – I am Tom Moody – Short Film Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
I am Tom Moody (2012, Directed by Ainslie Henderson) is a short animated film screened as part of the Snapshots strand at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. The short was introduced by Ian Gardner who chose the film as part of the strand, highlighting the work of recent graduates...
Snapshots – Tea Party – Short Film Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Snapshots is a unique strand within the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Showcasing short animated films from recent graduates from the Edinburgh College of Art animation programme, we are treated to a delightful short animation and a conversation between director/animator Vitalij Sichinava and animator/curator Iain Gardner. Gardner has chosen a...
Fast Film, Slow Burn: Uncommon Singularity -Short Film Programme Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Any good short film screening will have an eclectic mix and the animated shorts programme (Fast Film, Slow Burn: Uncommon Singularity) at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh had just that. In total 10 films were screened for a range of countries such as Canada, Estonia, Russia, France and Hungary....
Anime Mirai Project – Anime Film Review @ Scotland Loves Anime Festival
The Anime Mirai Project was a screening of series of 4 short anime films screened at the Scotland Loves Anime Film Festival at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. Anime Mirai is translated as ‘The Future of Animation’ and was a project by the Agency of Cultural Affairs in Japan to train young and up and coming animators...
Anime Shorts – Anime Film Review @ Scotland Loves Anime Festival
The Anime Shorts programme at Scotland Loves Anime involved the screening of 2 films – Tokyo Marble Chocolate and Mass Effect: Paragon Lost. Calling this screening ‘Anime Shorts’ may have been a misnomer as Mass Effect clocked in at about 90 minutes and Tokyo Marble Chocolate itself was two films, making it seem like a...
