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Animate Projects
Animate Projects is an arts charity in the UK dedicated to championing experimental animation.

History
Established in 1990, Animate has commissioned over 100 innovative and challenging films by artists. It is the longest running broadcast-linked project ever supported by Arts Council England, and the most consistent commitment ever made by Channel 4 to the independent production of experimental and artists' work. Selected through an open call for proposals, commissions are broadcast by Channel 4 and have gained critical and popular success at international festivals and achieved television sales around the world.

Animate Projects was established in 2007 to build on and extend the existing commissioning programme, developing new partnerships and collaborations. Its aim to realise the potential of the Animate Archive; exploit the opportunities of digital distribution; develop participatory projects and foster critical debate.

Dick Arnall
Dick Arnall, who died in February 2007, was closely involved with Animate from the very beginning - as its independent production advisor, from 1990. He took a break, to return to producing films in his own right, including Jo Ann Kaplan’s Anatomy of Melancholy for Animate, and Robert Bradbrook's multi-award winning Home Road Movies. From 2001, Dick's company Finetake ran the project, taking it in new directions, setting up animateonline and the Animate Artists Award, and developing Animate’s extensive exhibition programme, taking the work to unexpecting audiences in new contexts. (The animate online website has now been archived as Dick left it in December 2006).

More than anything, he'll be remembered as the artists' staunchest champion, supporter, and friend.

Online
animateprojects.org is the online exhibition space for the Animate Collection featuring new and historic experimental animation, artist interviews and critical writing.

The Animate Collection
The Animate Collection contains over 150 films from established and influencial, to up and coming artists. The Collection includes the works of Semiconductor, Run Wrake, Petra Freeman, Ruth Lingford, Olivera Harrison, [|Phil Mulloy], George Barber, Tim Webb, Hiraki Sawa, Quay brother, Chris Shepherd, Sarah Wood, Al and Al and Apichatpong Weerasethakul amoung others.

Recent 2011/12
Animate Projects recent projects include five short films for Channel 4's Random Acts, Sites of Collective Memory (r&d), Digitalis, Elizabeth and her Garden commission for the National Trust's Ham House and Garden, Rough Machines commissions and short films as part of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Primitive project.

Animate Projects 2011-2012 online exhibition programme has presented group exhibitions The Art of Gaming, Drawn from Life, Animate OPEN: Digitalis, Digitalis Commissions and Moving Pictures. Recent solo exhibitions online presented the works of Richard Fenwick, Sean Vicary, David Blandy, Let Me Feel Your Finger First, Suky Best, Mandy McIntosh, Hiraki Sawa and Ben Rivers.