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Media Innovation Awards

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2010-02-27T12:30:27+00:00

Sea Front has been nominated for a 2010 Media Innovation Award along with two other films. The ever vigilant D+CFilm has info.

Plenty going on...

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2010-02-27T12:29:54+00:00

One Minute Vol.3 continues its epic world tour - today it’s at The BAck doOR Melbourne, Australia. Presented by cogcollective in conjunction with suek-artist (27 February 2010). Our films Verge Nocturne and White Body are included. Kayla’s film White Body is at the The Women’s Art Show 2010, Fairfields Art Centre Basingstoke, UK (26 February - 1 April 2010) Sea Front has been selected for Experiments in Cinema V5.1 film festival (April 10, 14-18, 2009) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Programmed in Experiment 4, 14 April.

Verge 360

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2010-02-18T20:28:23+00:00

We were invited to contribute work to a panoramic video event at the University of Plymouth (15 - 19 February 2010). We chose to produce a digital re-master of dual-screen Super16 film Verge: Sculptural Geometry and Verge: Flux, stepped through 5 successive clock-wise projections with ambisonic(ish) audio. The video below is documentation of the screening of our animation Verge in 360 degree presentation by ICCI (Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries) and Igloo Vision at the University of Plymouth. At two minutes in you can see the panoramic video output of the event from a Point Grey Ladybug2 camera displayed on the recording laptop screen. Event filmed by Stuart Moore with a JVC GY-HM100 on 18-02-10

Verge 360 from Sundog Media on Vimeo.

Sea Front wins Trick of the Light Award

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2010-01-18T10:12:31+00:00

On Wednesday 13 January Sea Front was screened in the London Short Film Festival where it won the Trick of the Light Award for “the most gorgeous looking film.” Here is a statement from the judges: "We love this - it looks so retro. And even though we don't know where it's set it reminded us of dodgy school trips to Southend in the 80s.... very tenuous link to East End.... And even though it doesn't have a narrative it's completely engaging - you're in that place, and it gives you the same feeling that you have in that environment - voyeurism, lazy sunshine and ...The LSFF described the Trick of the Light Programme: Short films are shown with gorgeous and sumptuous imagery in this stunning collection of rich cinematography and beautiful animation. The programme takes in drama, documentary and experimental animation, to give a varied outlook of life from surreal dream-like landscapes to a more realistic viewpoint, but with equally stunning results

Three films in London Short Film Festival

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2010-01-13T09:48:48+00:00

White Body (new shorts 3: Femmes Fantastique) and Teign Spirit (new shorts 6: Leftfield and Luscious) have screened at this year’s London Short Film Festival. Sea Front will screen at Rich Mix Shoreditch today (new shorts 9: Trick of the Light) - here’s how they describe the programme:Short films are shown with gorgeous and sumptuous imagery in this stunning collection of rich cinematography and beautiful animation. The programme takes in drama, documentary and experimental animation, to give a varied outlook of life from surreal dream-like landscapes to a more realistic viewpoint, but with equally stunning results

Ed Milliband

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-11-06T18:54:28+00:00

On a visit to Plymouth, Ed Milliband, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, was given a copy of Sundog Media’s production The Other CO2 Problem by local MP Linda Gillroy. The DVD was commissioned by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and produced with students from Ridgeway School in Plympton during an intensive week at UCP Marjon earlier this year. See the film here

Animate 09 at Tate Modern

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-12-05T03:06:36+00:00

Teign Spirit was screened in Tate Modern’s Starr Auditorium on Thursday 3 December. The programme was introduced by Stuart Comer, curator of film at Tate Modern

One Minute Vol. 3 in Leeds

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-12-03T02:44:13+00:00

Pictures by Kerry Baldry - Lumen site Lumen says: one minute shorts vol3 – Kerry Baldry’s collection of artists work gives a snapshot of some of the exciting work being produced with an eclectic range of techniques including stop frame, video, film, Super8 and 16mm, splitscreen, superimposition, animation, digital and live action

AURORA 09 Tour

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-11-17T20:30:00+00:00

We presented the AURORA 09 Tour at Plymouth Arts Centre which includes Current Shot 01 by Philippe Gerlach & Stefan Kushima (still above) and Masking for Serene Velocity - Heat Shot 3 - two incredible films. ...A selection of the best new artists' work in the moving image from across the world, this programme of ten short films represents a wide cross-section of current artistic practice—from rigorous formal experiments to lyrical, poetic work; hand-processed, textural 16mm films alongside maverick digital adventures. The programme comprises work taken from the competition selection for the most recent edition of AURORA, an annual festival based in Norwich which explores the potential of the moving image via film programmes, installation work, performance and more. ...The concepts of inside and outside are troubled and the act of enclosure itself creates a screen on which to project the filmmaker’s own image. ...The opening aria of Bach’s Goldberg Variations forms the frame of this ‘associative editing’ piece which references the still-life paintings of Dutch artists Pieter Claesz and Lara de Moor. ...Images of the tides are married with celluloid that was buried in the sea bed and dragged through the ocean behind a boat, recording tactile evidence of the repetition and changes wrought by tide cycles. ...And precisely this suggestiveness makes Current Shot 01 so fascinating: the slightly weird impression that results when faceless figures – motionless and then in motion – start looking at you...” —Alexandra Seibel ...Blue paint starts to issue from the projected image, until the room is filled with paint and the distinction between room, image and seascape is lost, to dizzying effect.

Vauxhall Pleasure

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-11-10T11:43:07+00:00

Final performance of Vauxhall Pleasure at Holywell Music Room, Oxford on Saturday 7 November, 2009. The event combined a live music performance with video projections, including the film Vauxhall Pleasure edited by Stuart Moore of Sundog Media.

Teign Spirit online

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-10-17T09:38:38+01:00

Teign Spirit was commissioned along with two more Coastcards by Andrew Kötting and Susan Collins. The films are available on the Animate Projects site and as iTunes podcasts. More here soon.

Ecologist features CO2 Problem

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-09-03T09:59:51+01:00

The Ecologist has a review of our recent production The Other CO2 Problem

Hidden Harm

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-08-14T14:53:35+01:00

Our latest project “Hidden Harm” has been delivered to the clients. More information soon.

One Minute Volume 3 on UK Big Screens

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-07-30T20:18:27+01:00

One Minute Volume 3 is being screening on all the Big Screens throughout the UK this week - we’re keeping an eye on the one in Plymouth!

One Minute in Marseille

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-07-04T14:36:09+01:00

White Body and Verge: Nocturne can be seen in One Minute Vol. 3 touring programme on 19 September at the Marseille Project Gallery.

One Minute Vol. 3

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-05-30T11:48:13+01:00

Two of our films White Body and Verge: Nocturne are included in the new touring programme curated by Kerry Baldry. White Body One Minute will be showing on the Big Screen in Hull from the end of May until the end of July. There will be a Directors Lounge (Berlin) screening at Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany 5 - 7 June. Verge: Nocturne

PoetryFilm Party in the Curzon Soho Bar

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-04-18T15:03:41+01:00

Free screening of a selection of PoetryFilms on the theme of Dream, and also live performances, including Project Adorno and Play 2. ...A back-lit paper cut-out stop-frame animation in the ephemeral world of thoughts and dreams. ...After being accused of a crime he didn't commit and attacked by suspicious townfolk, The Disappearer disappears, appears, and disappears one final time. ...A hat of cards and a blue watch bearing no time are the punctums in this lucid dream. ...Inspired by Roy Fuller's poem of the same name, the film layers stark black and white stop-motion imagery with a textured soundtrack evoking an interior mindscape. ...A hallucinatory space is set up when a frozen image of the artist's face is projected onto weighty pieces of crockery atop a table. ...The film is inspired by a dream of a woman and a crow in which the two beings share one sentience. Further dreams led the artist to the locations featuring in the film: the secret bluebell wood in east Devon, Haytor on Dartmoor, and the sea in Plymouth.

Boinx features The Other CO2 Problem

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-04-08T09:52:32+01:00

http://boinx.com/istopmotion/examples/ We used Boinx’s iStopMotion in the production of The Other CO2 Problem

Devon Life

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-04-05T11:34:44+01:00

This month’s Devon Life magazine has an article on The Other CO2 Problem. Read it online here: http://www.devonlife.co.uk/main-menu-helping-planet-ocean--138412

The Other CO2 Problem

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-03-27T13:46:54+00:00

The film is online here: http://www.vimeo.com/3800275 http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=kvUsSMa0nQU The Other CO2 Problem is a clay animation about the potentially disastrous rise in ocean acidity. Created by pupils from Ridgeway School Plymouth, Sundog Media, and Dr Carol Turley of Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Commissioned by EPOCA [European Project on OCean Acidification]; supported by UCP Marjon, and National Marine Aquarium.

EUR-OCEANS European Schools Film Contest 2008

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2008-06-06T01:48:50+01:00

http://www.eur-oceans.info/EN/bruxelles/index.html

f-word feminist research symposium

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-02-19T01:14:51+00:00

Kayla co-organised a research symposium on feminism at UoP and gave a paper too!

Street Rat on the BBC Big Screen

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-06-12T00:32:41+01:00

Street Rat, the drama we made with young people for the Film Council’s First Light initiative, screens on the BBC Big Screen in Plymouth city centre during Wimbledon Weeks, 2006.

Read about Street Rat here

Death to Animation

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-01-07T14:00:01+00:00

Death To Animation - animate! remix screening - Sun 7 Jan, 2pm, ICA, London
Buzzard Buzzard remix animate! films including our very own Cage of Flame and Sunset Strip

PSP Born Free at V&A

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-01-27T23:47:50+00:00

at PSP Born Free V&A Museum London - Friday 27 January 2006 ...at PSP Born Free, Victoria & Albert Museum, London ...

Born Free is a special V&A Friday Late interactive exchange showcasing ...featuring the work of Kayla Parker, Gary Carpenter, Tim Webb, Tim ...Scrutiny, SKZCP and Sunset Strip play in the cinema, plus a half-hour ...street soul vocalist Alex Mills with DJ Target, and Search & Destroy.

...Magazine), late bar & food - and of course an opportunity to tour the ...More details: http://www.animateonline.org/editorial/2006/01/animate-at-

Portraiture and Place in Contemporary Animation

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-01-08T23:46:18+00:00

Iain Sinclair on Portraiture and Place in Contemporary Animation 2 at National Portrait Gallery London - Sunset Strip was screened

Playing in the Light

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-03-08T23:44:21+00:00

At the end of April, Sundog Media brought the ICO’s new touring programme Playing in the Light to Plymouth College of Art & Design. We’ve a long history of screening the best moving image work in the city and the south west through START, Plymouth’s independent moving image festival (1993 to present), and touring initiatives.

The New Flesh

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-07-21T23:42:29+01:00

The New Flesh
part of Undercover Surrealism
Friday 21 July 9pm - 1am
Upstairs at the Hayward Gallery
...

Musical and cinematic interventions exploring sex and death, featuring the menstrual visions of our 16mm film Cage of Flame, presented by animate! ...

this performance includes material of an explicit nature

Hayward Nights tickets: £10

Plymouth Exchange

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-07-08T23:40:02+01:00

Plymouth Exchange (PEX06) programme of short films from South West England and Kernow screened at the Plymouth Independent Film Festival, Massachusetts, USA in July 2006.

For the 2nd year running we’ve curated a programme of new short films from the region for PIFF in the USA, and will be presenting this year’s Plymouth Exchange programmes from both sides of the Atlantic here in the UK from October.

Take a look at our Plymouth Exchange site here

Visit the Plymouth Independent Film Festival here

The British are coming!

Perfect World at Wildscreen

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-10-08T23:38:31+01:00

Perfect World nominated for award at this year’s Wildscreen Festival in Bristol in October 2006. The Wildscreen jury chose Perfect World, our music video commissioned by the Bristol Natural History Consortium, because of its “outstanding creativity”.

Perfect World from Sundog Media on Vimeo.

The Wildscreen Festival is the world’s largest and most prestigious wildlife and environmental film festival.

Visit the Wildscreen site
... World music video produced by Sundog Media

Green (Un)Pleasant Land

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-09-02T23:36:23+01:00

Screening in Haldon Forest, Exeter Saturday 2 September 7.30pm at the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World.

Our films Cage of Flame and Sunset Strip will be shown as part of the Green (Un)Pleasant Land film/music event presented by Halloween and animate!

Visit the CCANW website

Sunday Shorts

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2006-10-19T23:35:11+01:00

Sunday Shorts - one day international film festival. Sunday 19th November, University College Plymouth St Mark & St John (Marjon), Plymouth, UK http://www.sundog.co.uk/start/sunday_shorts.html

Optical Organic

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2007-02-24T23:33:57+00:00

Optical Organic
An opportunity to explore the environment of Haldon Forest with award-winning filmmakers Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore and create an animated visual poem evoking a sense of place, using digital and physical image-making techniques to explore the natural world and the organic forms of the forest. ...

Date: Saturday 24 February
Time: 10am - 4pm
Price: £30 (£25) 01392 832277
Ages 12+ / max 10
Includes a DVD of day's work to be sent to participants.

Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
Haldon Forest Park,
Exeter, EX6 7XR
CCANW website

Street Rat

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2007-03-08T23:32:39+00:00

Street Rat chosen as a finalist in the First Light Movies Awards 2007 for its exceptional screenplay. Read about Street Rat here.

The Awards will take place on the morning of Tuesday 27 February at the Odeon West End in Leicester Square - judged by a celebrity panel including actors Kate Winslet & Minnie Driver.

Visit the 2007 Awards page on the First Light website.

Small World

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2007-03-08T23:29:25+00:00

Small World

We were commissioned to produce a high definition short film for inclusion in the 'Definitive Stories' programme for screening in the National Review of Live Art (NRLA) at the Tramway Gallery in Glasgow.
more info

Our Coast, Our Sea, OUR PLANET!

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2008-05-16T16:31:15+01:00

In February this year we were invited by Richard Marsh of the Barefoot Project to run an animation project over three days at a local secondary school. Work commitments meant Kayla could only be there for the first day and Stuart for only one more - two days to shoot a film with novice animators! The Ridgeway students had visited the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth for a scientific grounding in the film's subject - the effects of rising sea temperature on the marine ecology.

On arriving at the Ridgeway School we quickly set to work with Kayla organising the students' stories into a filming script and developed an ingenious narrative including an octopus chat show host and a naughty sea-horse.

...Luckily we had our trusty MacBook and the school had a single DV camera with a tripod in its reprographic unit so a mini animation studio was created under the library stairs.

...The production groups also recorded the dialogue for their scenes in a couple of very creative, full-on days! ...Discussions with the National Marine Aquarium - who were organising the UK part of the competition - resulted in script revisions to boost the scientific information in the film.

A trip back to Ridgeway School followed on the 15th May when new dialogue was recorded straight to the MacBook using a Mackie Onyx Satellite.

There 2 Care

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2008-06-10T16:00:06+01:00

There 2 Care from Sundog Media on Vimeo.

Media Innovation Awards 2009

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-03-12T22:38:29+00:00

There 2 Care has been nominated for a Media Innovation Award in the Collaboration between Business and Young People category.

Young carers are children who have to look after members of their ...it is like to be a young carer: the jobs they do, the problems and issues they face, and the kind of help and support they need from teachers and healthcare professionals. Dr Roger Morgan, The Director for Children's Rights for England, kindly lent his support to the project, and introduced the DVD."

To make the DVD an animation studio was created at The Zone on Union ...

Stuart says that the project is inovative in many ways: "We were ...they could be credited on the DVD, we suggested that each child chose ...some of the children's experiences, and all were so impressed by the

The Other CO2 Problem

info@sundogmedia.co.uk — 2009-03-06T14:01:51+00:00

The Other CO₂ Problem was delivered to PML today before being whisked off to Copenhagen before returning to the UK to be presented at the Royal Institution of Great Britain by Dr. Carol Turley of Plymouth Marine Laboratories. In January, Sundog Media ran four days of workshops at UCP Marjon for pupils of Ridgeway School Plymouth where a story and characters were developed for the animated film which addresses the subject of ocean acidification.