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Martin Pickles

MA work

  • Martin Pickles

    Martin Pickles

    Martin Pickles

Like Me, Only Better is about our day-to-day neuroses and compulsions. I treat a serious subject with sympathy and humour to try and make a film that is both pertinent and entertaining.

Before the RCA I made mainly live-action films, in which the apparatus of filming was often integral to the story. But my experience on the MA course and my sideline as a Flash animator led me towards more traditional animation and my graduation film is almost entirely hand-drawn on paper.

Afterwards I would like to do more commercial work whilst pursuing my own projects and perhaps, in the distant future, even combine the two.

Programme
Animation
Sponsors
Production funding for my short film Welcome To The 21st Century from Westminster Arts (2007)
a short film commission from the Hayward Gallery for its 60 Second Surrealism event (2006)
completion funding for my short film The Time Travellers of 1908 from City of Westminster Arts Council (2005)
full production funding for my short film G.M. from the London Production Fund (2001)

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Communication

    Programme

    MA Animation, 2007

  • Like Me, Only Better is about our day-to-day neuroses and compulsions. I treat a serious subject with sympathy and humour to try and make a film that is both pertinent and entertaining.

    Before the RCA I made mainly live-action films, in which the apparatus of filming was often integral to the story. But my experience on the MA course and my sideline as a Flash animator led me towards more traditional animation and my graduation film is almost entirely hand-drawn on paper.

    Afterwards I would like to do more commercial work whilst pursuing my own projects and perhaps, in the distant future, even combine the two.

  • Experience

  • Filmmaker, Video Editor, Flash Animator, Freelance, London, 2000-6; Online Cartoonist and Flash Animator, Comedy Circus/Laughing Stock Productions, London, 2000-1; Designer and Flash Animator, Boo.com, London, 1999-2000

  • Exhibitions

  • Onedotzero's Articulated London, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, 2007; Greenwich Degree Zero, Beaconsfield Gallery, London, 2006; Man Group Drawing Prize Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, 2006; Belgrade in the Past And Present, Prodajna Galerija Beograd, Belgrade, 2005

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