Peter Peel doesn't win something

I forgot to write anything about the Encounters Film Festival that was a couple of weeks ago. It was another good one. I had a slightly cut down version of The ongoing life of Peter Peel in DepicT! this year which was nice. All the filmakers did a little Q&A which was quite fun too. Sadly I didn't win but there were some nice comments about Peter on the DepicT! website though...

Sam Moore says:

I like the design and structure of this.

It’s also a really beautiful sentiment – I love the idea that by doing a really badly paid inconsequential job you could also do something extraordinary and amazing (or not).

The perfect expression of animation in fact …

and

William Westaway says:

Just watched all the films – this is the winner. Yes I also agreed with some of Billy’s comments however this film combines the weird and beautiful. Unique animation with touching sentiment – that white blob thing is the dreamer in all of us.

In theory we will all get what we want, but in life it never always works out that way.

Nailed Felix!

I know it's only a silly little film but I like it when people have thoughtful reactions to things I make like that.

This one is the best of them all though...

JJ Pierre says:

This is VERY appeeling.

Peter Peel is in DepicT! 2010!

My short animation, 'The ongoing life of Peter Peel - can, can, can't', is in the shortlist for DepicT! at Encounters this year! This was a little project I did while I didn't have any work on almost exactly this time last year. It wasn't funded by anything other than the grim prospect of foreseeable-future-unemployment and wintery-misery so I am very pleased it got selected! I made a website for it and everything but I've neglected that for too many months now. I should get going on that again soon. You can see it here though: www.PeterPeel.com

Also (if you like it) please feel free to give Peter Peel some stars on this page on the DepicT! website to help him out on the audience award!

If you haven't seen it before you can do below, or on that link there ^ Enjoy =)

Nice mention of Francis Cooper from Atlanta

Came across a nice little mention of The surprise demise of Francis Cooper's mother by Mark Flindall, the programming co-ordinator of Atlantic Film Festival...

A movie I recently programmed that I consider to be a great personal discovery: We definitely didn’t premiere it, not even close, but I really loved the short The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper’s Mother. It really felt like something special, and it’s also a pretty good distillation of my personal taste in film. It’s deeply weird, animated, has cats in it, perfect narration, and the suggestion that life goes on no matter how stupid, insane or unsuitable for life we may be. Which is actually kind of an amazing statement. Did I mention it has cats?

http://www.filmfestivalsecrets.com/2010/06/programmer-profile-mark-flindall-atlantic-film-festival/

Keith Reynolds and Francis Cooper back in Lille.

Keith Reynolds and Francis Cooper headed back to Lille for the Lille Fete de l'animation last weekend. Sarah Cox was there as part of a retrospective/screening of Arthur Cox work which included my films and the IRN-BRU commercial I directed last year. Magnifique.