What is the film about?

Landscapes gave way, a bird flew by.
A visual and musical collaboration that explores the wafer thin line between freedom and obliteration.

What influenced it?

Sébastien Laudenbach, William Kentridge, Norman Mclaren, contemporary classical & jazz music

A little background information...

Composer Ben Spooner and animator Morgan Twiston Davies are a new, UK-based duo collaborating in spontaneous and surprising ways to explore life’s big themes with a light touch.

The rolling feel of Ben’s music bought an approach to animating that Morgan hadn’t explored before, a method combining traditional 2D animation with stop motion that allowed for spontaneous animating and storytelling to be driven by Ben’s composition.

How was the film made?

The film is drawn on 150-200 meters of paper rolls being moved across the camera frame, the background and characters are drawn in charcoal onto the blank surface as more is revealed. A process of erasing and replacing any of the image that moves, improvising the backgrounds and moving forward the roll of paper to create the camera movement, all at the same time. This is then combined with some experimental stop motion with the paper itself and a bit of conventional replacement cutout animation.