Essays
TITLE
SUMMARY
'The simplest and most complex dance pieces or animated works have been created from a careful and thoroughly rehearsed set of signs and signifiers.'
'The ambition to animate the emergent - the player action and consequences of it, are uniquely of the videogame and extraordinarily ambitious tasks.'
'Palestine: cartography, memory, imagery. Some notes.'
'The ways in which we see birds, render them in texts and images, are all subject to quite specific interactions that are rooted in history.'
'Dreams - the subconscious and 'what if?'s - are fertile ground for the animator.'
'Both films juxtapose the fairytale and documentary form.'
'As in many of Ashton’s works, a gentle humour tinged with pathos pervades this animation.'
'A work set in a future that is visually constituted by contemporary footage modelled after the look of a 1970s idiom.'
'The film is a collage of daydreams that appears to display the lack of overarching logic inherent to all things oneiric.'
2011
'The early days of time-lapse conjures up images from biological observation of plants growing and humming birds flapping their wings.'
'It could be argued that a change has occurred, where narrative fiction no longer has the power to disguise the spectral nature of cinematic time.'
'The imagery is graphic, crude and degraded, and the sound distorted: it matches the subject matter.'
'Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria raises an interesting question about the resonant impact of nostalgia on information.'
'When accompanied by Tweed's insistent narratives, formerly banal images are cast in apocalyptic light.'
'National symbols are, supposedly, assertions of individuality. Yet there is an odd generality in these choices of animal.'