May 2012
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Time Machine in TES
The Times Educational Supplement published a great article by Adi Bloom on Time Machine on May 4th. Check it out after the break…
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HEART STOPPING HERITAGE
Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema brings its art-house past to life by challenging pupils to save the world. Adi Bloom reports
The children stand under a sepia-tinted portrait of a middle-aged man. He is dressed in trilby and...
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WatchHere’s a short trailer for the film I’m making with Northern Stars about photographer Stuart Roy Clarke for the National Football Museum in Manchester. It features a cracking score commissioned from British Sea Power. The final film way play in the gallery alongside an exhibition of Stuart’s work curated by him and designer Wayne Hemingway.
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Award #2 for Time Machine (Plus new nominations) →
‘Stylish, engaging, and at the cutting edge of education’ is how the judges for the BUFVC described Time Machine as they awarded it the Special Jury Prize at the Learning On Screen Awards at the BFI on London’s Southbank. For the full story follow the link above.
And on the train to London to attend the BUFVC ceremony we we learned we’d been nominated in two categories...
March 2012
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Time Machine Wins Award →
Here’s Holli McGuire and me picking up our Innovation Award at the Royal Television Society Awards for Time Machine. Follow the link at the top for the full story.
February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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WatchHere’s a little film Northern Stars made to send out over the festivities.
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Time Machine on Slide Share
August 2011
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WatchHere’s the teaser for the Time Machine ARG I’ve been working on for the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle. Full update on this project soon…
May 2011
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April 2011
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January 2011
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The Story Engine 2011
Having programmed this event for five years, its sometimes been hard to see where to take it next. But I’m pleased to say that this year’s edition has more or less programmed itself. Those inspired loons at the Tyneside Cinema had the terrific idea of creating a series of events to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the UK release of Get Carter and wondered if we’d be...
December 2010
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November 2010
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WatchFlickerman & The Ivory Skinned Woman
Adam Suschitzky shot this short film for me on 35mm back in 2001 in a tiny space above The Union Rooms in central Newcastle. The script was written with poet and novelist Jacob Polley. The wonderful production design was created by Sarah Beaman and costumes and make up are by Imogen Cloet, who spent days sandpapering those pajamas to get the look we wanted...
September 2010
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August 2010
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July 2010
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WatchThe Long Walk Home
I directed this short animation a few years ago as part of a pilot for an artist’s project that eventually run aground. It features a 3D character in a 2D space that was made up from enormous scans of the artists original artwork that were cut up in Photoshop and animated in After Effects.
You can see more of my shorts on the Short Films page.
Amanita Design →
These crazy Czechs have made some of the most stunning Flash games I’ve ever seen. Richly textured, beautifully simple, and fantastically strange. I want to give up my job and go and live in one of their worlds and be a shoemaker or a balloon blower upper…
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Northern Stars Get Co-Opted
All three short films from this year’s Northern Stars Academy have all been selected for the Co-Operative Film Festival and will screen at the National Media Museum in Bradford in October 2010. The NSA runs annually at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, and sees sixteen 15-19 year olds making their first fiction films. I work as lead filmmaker at the Academy - see more on the Projects page.
A Book Of Water
Jacob Polley’s poem A Book Of Water can be heard online here and read on the Guardian website here.
June 2010
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