Animations/Short

Bunny

James Copeland
2020 - 2 mins 8

Young stars Ella Grave and Abigail Bloomfield dance their hearts out to the sound of the perfectly named track ‘Devil On My Shoulder’ by Waste. ‘Bunny’ was selected by dance film pioneer Simon Fildes to premiere at GOAT Media’s Screen. Dance: Scotland’s Festival of Dance on Screen. The very short, short has gone on to tour festivals and charm audiences in the UK, France and Sweden.

 

Machi

Prashanti Aswani
2020 - 3 mins 10

Animation which tells the story of the filmmaker’s mother growing up in Indonesia with four siblings and Machi, her caretaker at the time.

 

Solace

Saskia Tomlinson, Lulu Senft
2019 - 3 mins 28

Solace is a stop-motion short film about a worry, a woman and a woolly yak.

 

The Sensational Silver City

Lucie Treacher, Graeme Roger
2022 - 16 mins

Ethereal film and sound work inspired by famous escapologist Harry Houdini who was tossed into Aberdeen harbour.

During a storm in 1909, a crowd gathered to witness Houdini, handcuffed and chained, dropped into the sea from the deck of a tugboat into the Aberdeen harbour. There was a high level of drama as Houdini spent a minute and a half in the murky depths before resurfacing and coming ashore.

Inspired by this historic event, members of the North-east community were filmed underwater and suspended in time by Moray artist Graeme Roger. Composer Lucie Treacher, who grew up in Sutherland, designed the film’s soundscape which features the voices of two Aberdeen choir groups.