MASTERCLASS WITH PHIL MULLOY



Biography:

Phil Mulloy was born in Wallasey, Merseyside. He attended Ravensbourne Art College in South London, where he studied fine art painting. Having completed a short animated film as part of his entrance requirements for the Royal College of Art, he specialised in making live-action film and television. After leaving college, he worked as a freelance writer/director until the late 1980s. He began making animation in 1989. Since then he has made over forty animated films.
http://www.philmulloy.com

MASTERCLASS TOPIC: How to make bad animation look good

Narrative, Minimalism and Conversation

Earlier this year I completed a feature length animated film called Dead But Not Buried. In it I explored the tensions within a nuclear family and the nature of absurdity. The film is the second part of a trilogy. I am now making the third and final part. Because the series of films was originally based on just forty frames, I had to invent a visual language that was both appropriate to the issues the film considered and able to explore the visual possibilities of the minimalist aesthetic, I had chosen. In part, these film are about my own process of discovering this language. It was my intention that part of the pleasure of viewing the film would be to do with the audience’s ability to share in this process of creation.

‘The Jury gave it the best feature award for its uncompromisingly experimental approach and anarchistic dialogue and humour, never before seen in an animation feature’ - Ottawa 2006.

It also won the Grand Prix for best animation feature at Cinanima, Portugal, 2006.

The following two features Goodbye Mister Christie and Dead But Not Buried went on to win the Grand Prix in Ottawa 2010 and 2011.

The workshop will be based on the ideas, I researched in this film.

Year 2012 Mesterclass with..