I’m currently conducting PhD research focused around animated documentary production in the UK. This page contains up to date information on publications, conference presentations and panels.
Work exhibited at the LIMITLESS exhibition, curated by Animated Women UK, 2023. Installed in the Upper Gallery at London College of Communication (LCC), and at EAST Gallery, Norwich.
My two pieces were The Secret, a 3D painting, and Found, a sculptural work designed to transform unpredictably as it ages.
A seven-minute animation made in collaboration with composer Hannah Peel and animator Christian Schlaeffer, commissioned by the BFI and BBC4 as part of Animation18. Using audio from interviews recorded around the UK, the film presents a dark tale of love found and lost, woven from fragments of real life broken hearts.
O Hunter Heart was broadcast on BBC4 in December 2018, and is available for a limited time in the UK on BFI Player.
The film premiered at BFI Southbank and has also been selected for screening at: Encounters Festival; Underwire Festival; London Short Film Festival; MUMIA Underground Animation Festival, Deptford Animadocs; Factual Animation Film Fuss; Under the Radar Festival; REX Animation Festival; Lichtspielklub Short Film Festival; Big Muddy Film Festival, Weird Wednesdays Stuttgart; Athens Animfest; Rising of Lusitania AnimaDoc Film Festival, where it won the Student Jury’s Award for Best AnimaDoc; and Southampton Film Week, where it won both the Best Artists Film Award, and the Audience Award.
This sculptural video installation was created for Wellcome Collection's States of Mind: Tracing Edges of Consciousness exhibition, 2016. You can see a teaser for the installation on NOWNESS, and read a write up of the whole exhibition here.
BETWEEN 2009 AND 2016, RICH PICKINGS ORGANISED REGULAR, ENERGETIC EVENTS EXPLORING THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE.
Each event combined film, art, talks, debate and discussion. Event partners included the Science Museum’s Dana Centre, Edinburgh International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and the Institute of Psychoanalysis. Events included speakers from the worlds of medicine, particle physics, anomalistic psychology, neuroscience, nanotechnology and psychiatry as well as writers, psychoanalysts, artists, designers and Academy Award, BAFTA and Emmy Award winning filmmakers and actors.
Rich Pickings was led by Carla MacKinnon and supported by a Wellcome Trust People Award.
HD | 13:48 | 2015
A short film I produced with support from Film London and the NLFP. Written and directed by Christopher Andrews.
Winner: Best Short Film, Defy Film Festival 2016. Official Selection: Galway Film Fleadh 2016 | Cork Film Festival 2016 | London Short Film Festival 2016 | Manchester International Film Festival 2016 (special mention, Best UK Short) | Valetta Film Festival 2016 | East End Film Festival 2016 | Underwire Festival 2016 | Lviv International Short Film Festival 2016 | Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2016 | Short of the Week | Vimeo Staff Pick
A music/film collaboration with Industrial Pop artist Gazelle Twin. The work, commissioned by London Short Film Festival and supported by Arts Council England, features organic animation experiments exploring themes of puberty, the body, hallucination, anxiety and phobia using materials including coal, clay, milk, hair and meat. It was premiered with a live performance from Gazelle Twin at the Institute of Contemporary Art on 15th January 2015 and toured to the Watershed in Bristol, FACT in Liverpool, Latitude Festival and Cork Film Festival. You can read a nice write up of the FACT event here.
A SHORT EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SLEEP PARALYSIS.
PRODUCED IN 2013 AS PART OF AN MA IN ANIMATION AT ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART.
SUPPORTED BY A WELLCOME TRUST ARTS AWARD.
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SHOWING IN UK VENUES THROUGHOUT 2016 AS PART OF THE 'DOCUMENT DIFFERENTLY' PROGRAMME, IN 'MOVE IT', A SCREENING INITIATIVE FROM ANIMATE PROJECTS.
WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY; CINEGLOBE FILM FESTIVAL, CERN, SWITZERLAND
SCREENED AT:
LONDON INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL, UK
ENCOUNTERS SHORT FILM & ANIMATION FESTIVAL, UK
LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, UK
STATE EXPERIENCE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL, GERMANY
IMAGINE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL, USA
KLIK! ANIMATION FESTIVAL, NETHERLANDS
CORK FILM FESTIVAL, IRELAND
EAST END FILM FESTIVAL, UK
BRANCHAGE FESTIVAL, JERSEY, UK
SHUFFLE FESTIVAL, UK
LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, UK
UNDERWIRE FESTIVAL, UK
IMAGINE: AMSTERDAM FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL, NETHERLANDS
FLATPACK FLM FESTIVAL, UK
CHITRAKATHA FILM FESTIVAL, INDIA
INHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL, UK
GREENHORN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, UK
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, USA
UPPSALA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, SWEDEN
NARCOLEPSY UK ANNUAL CONFERENCE, UK
NINEWORLDS GEEKFEST, UK
GREENWICH & SHEFFIELD SKEPTICS IN THE PUB, UK
GV ART AND SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM, UK
I produced this short mood film for a feature project by Christopher Andrews and Jonathan Hourigan.
Director: Christopher Andrews
Voice: Graham O'Mara
DoP: Tony Slater Ling
Editor: Gareth Davies
Sound design: Dominic de Grande
Colourist: Simona Harrison
Thanks to Rushes Postproduction, Grizedale Arts & James Rebanks
© Tony Slater-Ling / Chris Andrews 2014