User:Andyjoule

Andy Joule is a film-maker and animator. His interest has been in the movement of light and capturing the moments where we have been, but where we remain unseen. From a background in stopmotion where this process of capturing movement a frame at a time shows what the animator has done, without revealing the act itself Joule has taken this approach into the world of timelapse photography and After Effects post-production.

Andy studied on the animation course at West Surrey College of Art & Design. After graduating he went on to work in London for a number of leading companies including 3 Peach working alongside Joan Ashworth & Andy Staveley. He then proceeded to work for most of the leading studios in London through the 1990s in commercials, title sequences and childrens TV. Andy then went on to work in Manchester for HOT animation and Cosgrove Hall, where he directed, as well in Bristol with Barry Purves, the Netherlands and the US with animation great Don Bluth. His professional work has always been in the medium of stop-motion which is in contrast to his own films. Andy's own work sits in contrast with the pure commercialism of his portfolio, where he produces challenging non-narrative, almost abstract work.

In addition to his practical work Joule has also lectured at Volda University College, Norway and is a Senior Lecturer in Animation at the University for the Creative Arts. He is also a BAFTA juror and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Commercial work success:
‘[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihcxTQm36b8 Kill It. Cook It. Eat It]’. Red Bee Media/Fallon. D&AD Yellow Pencil 2008. Gold Honours - Best Idea in 30 Seconds 2008. BTAA Awards. Diploma. 2008. Promax Silver Award 2008.

‘The Koala Brothers Outback Christmas’ – Christmas Special. BAFTA nomination. Spellbound/BBC. 2006

Apple Jacks ‘Costume’ commercial. Loose Moose. BAA nomination 2006

‘Hamilton Mattress’ – Christmas Special. Harvest Films/BBC. British Animation Awards, Best TV Special, March 2002. Zoie Film Festival, America, Best Animation, March 2002. New Festival, Nova Scotia, Best Animation, April 2002. Grand Prix, Annecy, June 2002. BANFF, TV Special, Nomination, Canada, June 2002. Florida Film Festival, Audience Prize for International Short, June 2002. Altanta Film festival, Best Animation, June 2002. Krok, Russia, Diploma of Honour, September 2002. Rio, Audience 2nd Prize, August 2002. Sao Paulo, Audience 3rd Prize, August 2002. Florida, Marco Island, Best Animation, October 2002. Chicago, Children's Film Festival, Best Animation (Children's Jury), November 2002. Madrid, Animadrid, First Prize, December 2002

‘Animal Shelf’. BAFTA nomination. CITV/Cosgrove Hall. 1999

‘Treacle People – Christmas Special’. BAFTA nomination. LWT. 1997

The Decade Journey.
Based in part on Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' the film follows an unwitting traveller, lost in a city of surveillance and suspicion. His access to knowledge and information is closely monitored, and eventually he reaches a door to what he believes to be an escape, only to fail at the last as the doorkeeper denies him passage.

This stopmotion film was shot on B&W 16mm, with audio post-production at De Lane Lea Studios. It was screened at the Electric Cinema, Portobello and at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1990.

Strangeness
'Strangeness' was a 2 minute short produced in response to the challenge - make a film based on the idea of a foriegn film. Taking these words and their multiple individual meanings a loose abstract narrative developed. Ideas of alienation, difference, surface and texture inspired a range of visual responses.

This was the first short made digitally, and set to a score by the French composer Yann Tiersen.

The film has not been screened in competition or festivals.

Animmilus
'animmilus' was filmed between 1999 and 2000 whilst working at Cosgrove Hall Films in Manchester. It was made using the short ends of 16mm colour stock left over, and filmed in the summer evenings and at weekends. It was made as a reaction to living within a large urban environment, a new phenomenon. Within the metropolitain sprawl there were pockets of nature, where if captured in the right way were indistinguishable from rural environments. This became the basis of the idea - finding nature, the patterns of light through leaves and water, the movement of the waves, pebbles across a beach in contrast to the movement and patterns of light from the white noise static of a tv and old video tapes. It is a mixture of normal and high-speed live action, pixillation and time-lapse and filmed on an H16 Bolex.

The film was edited by Leo Casserly at Flix Post Production and the sound was mixed by Alistair Saunders at Hullabaloo Studios. The original 16mm print has sadly vanished, and the Beta version was rediscovered in 2012 and digitised by Simon Allmark & Mark Elliot at UCA.

It was fimed around the Mersey River and Chorlton Water Park in Manchester, in the studios of Cosgrove Hall and at Hall Sands and Berry Pomeroy, Devon.

It was screened at the Kino2000 Festival in Manchester.

Ellipsis.
'ellipsis' is the pattern of light as it moves through time and place revealing another side to nature. The places where we have been, the footprints of our existence that we leave are shown, brief glimpses of our interaction through our systems, our processes, our lives. The journey starts with hope, a brave new world with its structure and bold design. Bright, clean, optimistic. But time erodes, and hope fades as familiarity envelopes us. We see the decay, both physical and spiritual through dust and dereliction. But salvation awaits. Or does it? We trust in something bigger but intangible. And we return, sometime to the beginning. To a place of nostalgia, of reflection but also melancholy. The journey, cyclical, begins again, the spiral of our lives ever playing out, generation after generation seeking the same answers, with the same hope and fears, with the same sense of loss at the end of the day.

'ellipsis' is a collection of over 15,000 photographs. The locations used include the Western Dock at DPS World Southampton, the barge graveyard at Rainham, Yew Copse at Winchester Hill, Coalhouse Fort at East Tilbury, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencies at Valencia, the Metropolitan Basilica Cathedral of St Mary Valencia, Arundel Cathedral, Hollywood Lodge in Epsom, Brighton Beach and Canada Square London.

In total over 20,000 photographs were taken, so some sadly never made the final film, and these include a sequence shot in Norway.

The project began in April 2010. Production then continued over the next 18 months with time spent on location shooting, followed by the inevitable post-production and clean-up. The whole project was produced in After Effects and edited in Premier. The score was generously given by Rutger Zuyderveldt of Machinefabriek with additional sound effects mixed into the whole to give the piece and unsettling edge.

Festival and Competition Information
'The Decade Journey' was screened at 44th International Film Festival, UK. August 1990 'Animmilus' was screened at 5th Kino Film festival, Manchester Nov 2000 'ellipsis' was screened at the following festivals worldwide: Chronos Film Festival, USA, Nov 2011 Cornwall Film Festival, UK, Nov 2011 exground24, Wiesbaden, Germany, Nov 2011 7th Athens Animfest, Athens, Greece. March 2012 2nd Be There! Corfu Animation Festival, Greece. March 2012 30th International Film Festival, Uruguay. March 2012 8th Open Cinema International Short and Animation Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia. July 2012 9th Naoussa International Film Festival, Naoussa, Greece. September 2012

Awards:
'ellipsis': Jury Award Winner. 'On the Edge' Competition - Best Experimental Short Film. Cornwall Film Festival 2011. Jury Special Mention. Experimental Category, Main Competition. Open Cinema International Short & Animation Festival 2012

Additional screenings:
27th Clermont Ferrand Short Film Market, 27th Jan - 4th Feb 2012 Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall, 8th March - 14th April 2012 'Encountering Art and Design' Research Conference, King's Place, London, May 4th 2012

Shortlisted for the Royal Academy 2012 Summer Show

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