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Emily Downe

MA work

MA work

  • Still frame, 'Better'

    Still frame, 'Better', Emily Downe 2019
    Digital 2D

  • Still frame, 'Better'

    Still frame, 'Better', Emily Downe 2019
    Charcoal, pastel, on paper

  • Still frame, 'Better'

    Still frame, 'Better', Emily Downe 2019
    2D digital

  • Still frame, 'Better'

    Still frame, 'Better', Emily Downe 2019
    Charcoal, pastel, on paper

  • Still frame, 'Better'

    Still frame, 'Better', Emily Downe 2019

Better

Better is short animated film, which questions the ideal worlds of a perfectionistic culture. Exploring research through storytelling, the film is based in a fantasy jungle that acts as a portal for idealised worlds to become external.

Programme
Animation
Collaborators
Ioannis Spanos
Inari Sirola, Animation
Alice Aires, Animation
Jez Pennington
Giulia Frixione
Gabriela Sibilska
Evie Gaffney
Sponsors
Barbican

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Communication

    Programme

    MA Animation, 2019

    Specialism

    animation--documentary-animation-pathway

  • Emily Downe is an animation director predominantly working in documentary.  Her short films take research-based topics in science, philosophy and the human story into compelling experimental and narrative structures. Prominent aspects of her work are her background in illustration, research and visual metaphors, combined together with rich and layered sound design; expressed through 2D, hand-drawn animation.

  • Degrees

  • BA Illustration Animation, Kingston University, London, 2017; Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, City and Islington College, London, 2014

  • Experience

  • Co-director, commissioned by artist Tom Rosenthal, London, 2018; Animator and designer, School of Life, London, 2016–2018; Freelance illustrator, London, 2016–present; Motion graphics animator, Mindful Education, London, 2018–2019; Animator & designer, Prime, London, 2019

  • Exhibitions

  • More, OXO Tower Barge House, London, 2017

  • Awards

  • Penguin Random House, Russian Vintage Classics, 2017; Pitch Prize, Wellcome Collection, 2018; Wellcome Collection, 2018; Student documentary 10 minutes, Raw Science Film Festival, 2019

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