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February 2020 'ACCIDENT'

As usual we hosted local animation in as informal and shambolic a fashion as possible. We were also joined by special guest, Evgenia Golubeva.

Evgenia showed The Witch & The Baby and her new book based on her charming short I Am Not A Mouse. As well as an animation director and illustrator, Evgenia writes on shows such as Hey Duggee and Becca’s Bunch.

I'm chuffed with how these nights have gone. So many interesting animators have come out of the woodwork over the last year. Overlap gets a pretty diverse selection but a lot more submissions come from men than women. Additional to guests and reaching out to animators individually, I’d really like to work out how we can represent the area as best as possible.

This was our last outing at Kongs Birmingham. The venue was the perfect space for what we needed. Free. Super central. Wheelchair accessible. Screen and music already set up. Mood lighting. Central stage area and a bar in the same room. With a bit of work, it felt like a brutalist cabaret bar. It'll be missed.

February 2020's Playlist:

Matt Hayman - ____Roll, Con Troll, CTRL

Louis Hudson - Accident

Jake Wesley-Worral - Switch

Laura Watson - Devoid

Taian Lu - Break The Confinement

Jacob Faulkner / Ordos - Balance Disorder

William Marler - Secrets And Lies, Who Am I?

Evgenia Golubeva - I Am Not A Mouse

Evgenia Golubeva - The Witch And The Baby

Ross Butter - Eamonn Holmes Gives Birth To A Swan

Luke Frangeskou - Frangeskou

Carlton Matthews - Caught Dealing

Greg McLeod - De Cee Voe Mama Jama

Second Home Studios - Accident, Da Vinci Indents

Kirk Sylvester - Minute Taker - Lust

Interval Videos by Dominic Civil, Gabby Lingyte, Gareth Courage, Chris Richardson

Photos by David Stanley / Guri Bosh.

November 2019 'Control'

Featuring local animation, a discussion with BAFTA-winning Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson, and a live performance of Ainslie's theatre piece, Adjust.

Will & Ainslie have created work for Adult Swim, MTV, BBC, and toured countless festivals with their films. Their combination of humour, emotion and bittersweet storytelling is unique. It got as silly as it did emotional.

November 2019 Playlist:

Greg McLeod - The Inverted Peak, Mind Pipe (WIP)

Josh Leach - Josh Earns A Badge

Carlton Matthews / Lil Saucy Knuckles - Loudhouse - Apex

Jacob Faulkner / Ordos - Control

DRP Motion - Halloween

Fraser Ntukula - D-Pad

Matt Waruszynski - Ctrl , Tea Break

Shiyi Li - Burn & Smoothe

Luke Frangeskou - Remote Control Man

Dan Crew - Methods - Mankind

Antonio Roberts - Generative Loop

Ainslie Henderson & Will Anderson

Adjust Live Performance

My Best Friend

Stems

It's About Spending Time Together

Shackle (WIP)

Contact Trailer

Photos by David Stanley / Guri Bosh.

August 2019 'Space-Out'

The set up was fairly epic for Shiyi Li & Gloria Yehilevsky's live music and performance infused animation, Minister Of Loneliness.

Our new home was Kongs Birmingham who weren't quite sure what to expect as we set up projector screens and a full-sized orchestral glockenspiel.

The turn out was fantastic, the word had obviously spread that this was as much a night for animators as it was for appreciators. The tech was charmingly shambolic, giving people a chance to have a drink and mingle.

We had some more interactive elements. Gloria Yehilevsky live scored Chris Randall's latest experimental instalment. Louis also improvised the sound effects for his recent animation. Ollie Jones showed his trilogy of music videos for Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. Featuring film, stop motion, drawn, cut out, puppetry, miniatures, digital effects. Ollie threw the lot at them.