THE BLACK DOG @ THE BFI

The Black Dog's Progress returns to the big screen for one night only at the BFI.
British Animation Meets the 21st Century.
23 April at 18.10
Curated by Jez Stewart
Details and tickets HEERREEE

miscellaneous hard drive discovery #bdp02

don't know why but a few years ago I put The Black Dog's Progress through the kaleidoscope.

some stills were used in the pictoplasma vol. 3 dvd booklet

THE WORLD HISTORY OF ANIMATION

The Black Dog has found his way into "The World History of Animation" by Stephen Cavalier

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kinofilm award

the black dog recently won best animation at kinofilm, manchester european short film festival
they sent me this award and some sweets (the sweets were nice)
thanks jury people!

pictoplasma dvd vol 3

Pictoplasma Characters in Motion vol 3 is out now and includes The Black Dog's Progress as well as loads of other super work...
It's a beautifully designed dvd and you can get a copy HERE

thanks peter and lars!

british animation awards

The Black Dog's Progress won the Best Short Film award at the BAA's on Thursday night!
plus Soren picked up the Best Sound award for his score.

thanks to the jury, jayne pilling and her baa people

a couple of things about the awards here and here

and thanks also to koji yamamura who made my wonderful award....

...slightly sickening...

There's a few more British Animation Awards Public Choice screenings coming up this week at various places around the country. Full programme here

The Black Dog's Progress is in Programme 2.

The next London screening is Saturday 27th February at the BFI Southbank (it's worth going just to see Strawberry Swing by Shynola, and Tad's Nest by Petra Freeman on the big screen)

here's a tiny but nice review in Time Out this week....

best of ottawa & short of the week

The Black Dog's Progress is screening in the Best of Ottawa Showcase in the coming months.
Details here

And it was included in the Top Ten Short Films of 2009 over on Short of the Week.

flip festival

Best UK Film for The Black Dog's Progress at Flip Festival
thanks to judges Sarah Cox, Stuart Messinger and Greg McLeod

also motionographer post!

klik! design award

klik! amsterdam animation festival
The Black Dog's Progress wins the Klik! Design Award
thank you Gerrit van Dijk, Dennis Nyback and Phil Mulloy

the reviews are in

The Black Dog' Progress is now being distributed by Future Shorts

it's up on their youtube channel and can be viewed here or by clicking the big gif above

festival news

lots of new Black Dog festival screenings in the next few months including:

Ottawa Int'l Animation Festival, China Digital Arts Festival, Klik! Amsterdam, Lille Short Film Festival, Curtociruito Spain and DOK Leipzig Germany.

details over there on the right.....

it'll also be screened at the Too Art for TV exhibition in New York in September/October. more details soon.

nice things about the black dog (part 2)

- Weep For The Black Dog's Progress (Twitch Film)

- The Edge of Reason Toronto screening (Robert Bell)

- Eye for Film review

- Scene 360

- Movie Moxie

(nice things part 1)

festival screenings this week and next

Edinburgh International Film Festival
Sunday 21st June (18:45) in the McLaren Animation 2 programme

Melbourne International Animation Festival
Friday 26th (18:00) & Saturday 27th June (16:45)

Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto
19th June (19:00) 2009

FEST International Film Festival, Portugal
21st – 28th June 2009

pictoplasma festival

the black dog's progress is screening at the pictoplasma animation festival, berlin, in the characters in narration programme - 20th march

details here
full programme here

the black dog's progress essay

written by karen alexander
read it here

la progression du chien noir

the black dog's progress is screening at the clermont-ferrand short film festival this week.

it's in the lab competition (L4) and playing most days.
times & dates & venues here

i'll be there from thursday 5th to sunday 8th and details will follow early next week on here and on the animate projects blog.

animate tv repeat

animate tv is repeated tonight at 12.20am on channel 4.
features all seven films (including the black dog's progress) and interviews with the artists.

black dog through the kaleidoscope

click to enlarge