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Posted by lauriehill at 1:37, May 15th, 2014
Director:
Laurie Hill
Right! Catch up time again!
New interview on //Projection// right here:
http://projectionreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/photograph-of-jesus-and-interview-with.html
Thanks to Miriam Lee.
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Posted by lauriehill at 20:28, February 17th, 2014
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Lo-Co Film Festival at the BFI Southbank, London, as part of a special programme called FUNNIER THAN FICTION put together by DocHeads.
24 January, 2014
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Posted by lauriehill at 20:26, February 17th, 2014
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Unlimited #7, Cologne, Germany
14 – 17 November, 2013
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Posted by lauriehill at 20:23, February 17th, 2014
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened as part of a special touring programme of McLaren Award Winners from the Edinburgh International Film Festival at 2nd China Independent Animation Film Forum, China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts (CMoDA), Beijing.
Time: 14:00 – 17:00, Thursday 14 November 2013
The blurb says:
‘A total of 22 animation short films from a British Council programme of films from Edinburgh International Film Festival’s McLaren Award will be screened at CMoDA during the 2nd CIAFF on 14 November.’
It’s a tasty programme – check it out here:
www.britishcouncil.org/china-arts-film-ciaff2013
UPDATE Oct 2014**
Since then the programme has toured to China, Portugal, India (five cities), Russia, Venezuela, Italy and Colombia.
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Posted by lauriehill at 20:17, February 17th, 2014
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Blue Door Cinema, Great Missenden, Bucks. It showed with the documentary feature Searching for Sugarman.
28 September, 2013
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Posted by lauriehill at 20:17, February 17th, 2014
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Estilhaços (Shrapnel) – a ‘one-weekend happening’ at Teatro José Lúcio da Silva in Leiria, Portugal
The blurb says:
â€Estilhaços†is the space of “shorts”. Visual, musical, film and performing short moments, that will succeed each other and merge, in the space of Teatro José Lucio da Silva. Piece after piece, block on block, defragmenting and reordering, and emerges â€Estilhaçosâ€, as a construction of small moments, which by virtue of a common direction and sense, take on new form.
www.eco-associacao.com/estilhacos2013/
27-29 September, 2013
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Posted by lauriehill at 20:12, February 17th, 2014
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened as part of a special programme selected by Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur at One Minute Film & Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland.
22-25 August, 2013
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Posted by lauriehill at 19:13, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus will be screening at DocTent this summer.
DocTent is an initiative run in association with DocHouse – a documentary film screenings and workshops space for various music festivals across the summer.
It will be at:
Wychwood Festival
31st May – June 2nd, Cheltenham Racecourse, UK
www.wychwoodfestival.com/cinema/
Blissfields Festival
5-7th July, Winchester, UK
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:42, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
I’ve been doing some tasty chunks of animation for the forthcoming As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2, the eagerly-awaited and final hour installment of the epic twenty four hour Radio Soulwax project devised by the Dewaele brothers. Coming soon!
Tune in at:
www.radiosoulwax.com
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:40, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at 20th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film in the festival’s special section “Animated Realitiesâ€. This special section is part of the focus on animadok and has been curated by Annegret Richter from the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.
Stuttgart International Festival Of Animated Film,
Germany
April 23 – 28, 2013
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:25, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
Spring 2013 was another great visuals project. This time working with post-production wizards One Of Us to bring a fab visual dimension to a rather special one-off event at London’s Barbican in March:
Consciousness – A Performance lecture by Marcus Du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding Of Science and mathematics guru.
For this, I was able to draw on some fascinating archival material from the Wellcome Collection and elsewhere.
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:24, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
Year end 2012 and the explosion that is Soulwaxmas!
Yep – things got really busy again working on live visuals for 2ManyDJ’s Soulwaxmas extravaganza, this year frying brains in Manchester, Paris and London.
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:22, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Short Screens, Actor’s Studio, Brussels, Belgium
Dec 27, 2012
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:19, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
Dickens’s Dream was included on a new educational dvd being launched by British Council in December 2012. Very happy to be part of this.
images courtesy of Museum Of London/Charles Dickens Museum
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:12, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
I’ve mentioned it before but haven’t gone in to a great amount of detail but over the past few years I’ve been heavily involved in creating live concert visuals for 2ManyDjs and also David and Steph’s rather wonderful and generous Radio Soulwax project.
Late summer 2012 is festival season and so I was pretty busy then with some nice things for the live set.
Been doing some off and on work on a new Radio Soulwax hour – still to be released but in the pipeline!
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:12, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
For a large chunk of late spring and summer 2012 I was involved on a major feature film project, animating and designing a few tasty wotnots for a key scene – anyway – it’s a whopping great film and should be out in the UK in 2013! Why not check out IMDb?
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:11, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Vintage Mobile Cinema, Ramsgate Arts Festival, UK
August 2012
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:09, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at VideoEx Festival, Switzerland
26 May – 3 June, 2012
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:08, May 24th, 2013
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at
Dresden International Short Film Festival / Dresden National Theatre ‘special programme’, Germany
Jan 13, 2012
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Posted by lauriehill at 18:06, May 24th, 2013
I know – it’s been a looong time since the last update!
That doesn’t mean I’ve not been busy though – it means I’ve been more busy! Anyway – here goes a few retrospective updates …
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Posted by lauriehill at 1:38, February 26th, 2012
Director:
Laurie Hill
Just a note to say I’ve created an animation for Dickens and London – a major exhibition being held at the Museum of London and marking the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth in 2012!
It’s called Dickens’s Dream and is displayed with Dickens’s own writing desk and chair! Its inspiration is the painting of the same name by Robert William Buss.
Dickens and London is the UK’s first major exhibition on the author for over 40 years and is on until June 2012 at the Museum of London.
Dickens and London
Museum Of London
9 December 2011 – 10 June 2012
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk
images courtesy of Museum Of London/Charles Dickens Museum
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Posted by lauriehill at 0:08, February 26th, 2012
Director:
Laurie Hill
Thought it was worth a wee post to say I’ve been involved for the past couple of years creating visuals for 2ManyDjs ‘Under The Covers’ live shows that have toured all over the world.
I’ve also been involved with the ongoing and rather groovy Radio Soulwax project which launched back in July last year.
I made the Jack In The Box and Celestial Voyage Pt.1 hours and also have some bits and bobs in the Under The Covers tour compilations and Introversy.
http://www.radiosoulwax.com
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Posted by lauriehill at 23:51, February 25th, 2012
Director:
Laurie Hill
My Life At 40 screened at DOK Leipzig, Germany
Special Program Animadok: My Life At 40
DOK Leipzig
54th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
Germany
October 17 – 23, 2011
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Posted by lauriehill at 23:44, February 25th, 2012
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Palo Alto International Film Festival, USA
Palo Alto International Film Festival
USA
Sept 29 – Oct 2
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Posted by lauriehill at 23:43, February 25th, 2012
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened in The Best of Brest Festival programme at Tinklai International Short Film Festival, Lithuania
Tinklai International Short Film Festival
Vilnius
Lithuania
Sept 21 – Oct 8
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Posted by lauriehill at 23:40, February 25th, 2012
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Cinéfil Festival, France
Cinéfil Festival
France
23 July – 8 August
La Roche de Glun 23-24 July
Valence 25 July
Andance 27-28 July
Les Roches de Condrieu 30 July
Sainte Colube 1-2 Aug
Lyon 4-6 August
Trevoux 8 August
Blurb as follows:
‘Born in 2007, Cinéfil Festival is a travelling festival taking place on a canal boat going through seven towns in the French region of Rhones Alpes. The screening lasts about an hour on the upper deck of the canal boat. The objective is to bring cultural propositions in cultural disinherited place. It’s why we made the choice of free and outdoors screening to get the largest public possible and to sensitive them to the short form.’
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Posted by lauriehill at 23:34, February 25th, 2012
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened in this Best Of Tallgrass Film Festival Shorts programme in Kansas City
Tallgrass at CinemaKC
Kansas City
USA
June 25
Blurb is as follows:
‘CinemaKC Presents: The Best of the Tallgrass FIlm Festival Shorts & Kansas Filmmakers, in association with the Kansas Film Commission.
Join the Tallgrass Film Association for a special evening, when we join forces with CinemaKC to present a short film program of some of our favorite short films from past Tallgrass Film Festivals, including some of our top selections from Kansas filmmakers.’
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Posted by lauriehill at 23:31, February 25th, 2012
Director:
Laurie Hill
Time a for a few catch up posts relating to events happening in 2011!
Photograph Of Jesus screened at the opening night of VOLXkino, Vienna, Austria
It screened with Buffalo 66.
VOLXkino
Open Air Kinos
St.Balbach Art Produktion
Vienna, Austria
May 26, 2011
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Posted by lauriehill at 1:57, May 4th, 2011
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus is screening at Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
May 6-15
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Posted by lauriehill at 1:56, May 4th, 2011
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at SIFF: Animation Fascination Festival, Seattle, USA
April 22-24
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Posted by lauriehill at 1:54, May 4th, 2011
Director:
Laurie Hill
My First Taste Of Death screened at REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
‘Goosebumps Galore’ programme! Scary!
March 26-27 and April 1-2
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Posted by lauriehill at 0:57, January 27th, 2011
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus and My First Taste Of Death will be screening at 6th Annual Children’s Film Festival , Seattle, USA
Jan 28- Feb 6
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Posted by lauriehill at 0:54, January 27th, 2011
Director:
Laurie Hill
A small extract of Photograph Of Jesus is screening as part of the Smile For London event which uses screens on London’s underground system to display groovy stuff for a week or two in January (Jan 17-28).
Info here:
http://www.smileforlondon.com/
Blurb says:
‘… We’re going to beat the January blues with our showcase of film, art and animation. The films will be displayed on digital platform screens across the stations below on weekday mornings and evenings during the rush hour commute.’
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Posted by lauriehill at 0:49, January 27th, 2011
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Prague Short Film Festival, Czech Republic
Jan 19-23
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Posted by lauriehill at 0:47, January 27th, 2011
Director:
Laurie Hill
Photograph Of Jesus screened at Antarctis – Antarctic Short, Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Antarctica
The festival was held at the Finnish Antarctic research station ABOA in Queen Maud Land Antarctica (location 73°03′S, 13°25′W)
Dec 24-31
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