Graduating students have explored an intriguing array of narratives, observations, techniques, tones and textures to expose their ideas. Pushing and pulling between manipulated live-action, puppets, crisp graphic drawing and delicious mark-making, the films emerge forming their own complete worlds.

Through ingenious means and skillful techniques, each student captures aspects of their response to their own environment. Sexual awakening, shared dreaming of squirrels, chilling changes in point of view, and fears of white hair are but a few of the highlights that can be found this year’s stimulating collection of films.

Films from the Animation Department are screened around the world, with a selection of recent work being screened at Peter Doig’s StudioFilmClub, Trinidad, and an uplifting selection of students’ films was shown along the Haiti border as part of the Haiti Kids Kino Project, a mobile cinema projecting films from around the world to children in Haiti. The films hold and share ideas across cultures.