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onedotzero: NEW BRITISH TALENT '09
Check out moving image work by the latest bright sparks and up-and-coming talent from the UK's filmmaking scene that spans cutting edge documentary, lo-fi animation and tongue-in-cheek horror. New British Talent is curated in collaboration with the BBC's interactive showcase for British filmmakers.
| Round |
| Inspired by the primeval eeriness of the XX Teens' vocals, this tale of death and rebirth rages in a jungle world of animated shadowy hands, manipulating the talents of Argentinean master shadow artist Serpico. |
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| Photograph of Jesus |
| Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Unruly images have a life of their own in this refreshing, fantastical hybrid of animation and live action documentary, based on real requests for impossible photographs from the Getty Images archives. |
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| Khoda |
| A dark, animated psychological thriller exquisitely created out of 6,000 individual paintings, in which an imprisoned man suffers nightmarish flashbacks of torture by mysterious perpetrators. An impressive debut film inspired by Alexandre Petrov's The Old Man and the Sea. |
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| The Archivist |
| Can a perfect moment be preserved forever? A man explores his dual obsessions, his girlfriend and the art of vacuum packing, in a beautifully-warped story about what it is to love and never let go. Inspired by music from Cumbrian band Wild Beasts |
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| Celebrity Desktops - Naomi Campbell |
| The maid knows nothing about information technology. Obviously, she'll be punished for her ignorance. CELEBRITY DESKTOPS is a fly-on-the-wall short animated series, which spoofs the online activities of some of today's biggest celebrities. |
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| The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper's Mother |
| Francis Cooper always assumed his father would die before his mother. Emily Maddison never thought she would be the woman responsible for ending anybody's life, but these things happen. An entertaining, dark comedy from the young animation brains at Aardman, nattily narrated by Alexei Sayle. |
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| The Black Hole |
| A sleep deprived office worker finds a "black hole" whilst photocopying documents late one night. Suddenly the possibilities seem infinite, but will greed get the better of him? Shot in a day, this short is inspired by the ACME black hole from old Warner Brothers cartoons. |
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| I See What You Are Saying (onedotzero) |
| A stop-frame graduation film which documents a young person's experience of growing up in a profoundly deaf family. A simple story, beautifully told in hand-drawn 2D pencil and ink from this recent alumnus of the Royal College of Art. |
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| Luftwaffles |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II introduces a family of no-nonsense Brits to a new potato snack that's taken mainland Europe by storm. A comic 3D animated parody, which makes no apologies for its abundance of historical inaccuracies. |
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| Felix's Machines |
| An intriguing, music-driven documentary, which observes the orchestrations of a fantastical robotic musical machine that was created by inventor Felix Thorn in his bedroom. |
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| White Corolla |
| A 2D naïve animated exploration of animal infidelity through limb swapping. A surreal take on The Owl and The Pussycat, where a cat elopes with a unicorn, bears dance in roller skates and pandas fall in love with dogs. |
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| I Stood Up |
| Giving up your seat on your daily commute to somebody who is less able is seen as common courtesy. But what if this simple act becomes a matter of life or death? A short conceived around the concept of 'luck', alluding to the 7/7 London tube bombings. |
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| Eel Girl |
| In a military laboratory, a scientist has become obsessed with the half-human half-eel creature he's studying. When she beckons him to her, it's the call of a siren... A rare sci-fi fantasy short, which may cause a loss of appetite. |
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| Celebrity Desktops - Tom Cruise |
| His avatar is an alien and his username is "Topgunthetan". He uses the internet religiously in a recruitment drive for Hollywood celebrities. One of a series, CELEBRITY DESKTOPS is a fly-on-the-wall short animated web series, which spoofs the online activities of some of today's biggest celebs. |
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| Bruce |
| In this comic debut, a young man uses open-source organic programming to grow his very own action hero, which bears a marked resemblance to the original DIE HARD heavy. |
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| The Hobbyist |
| A garden shed inventor's creation goes awry after he invents something truly unique. A lo-fi slapstick debut all the way from Wales, which proves that sometimes the simplest ideas are the best! |
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