Night Thoughts

I just finished working on this short piece, based on the short story 'Night Thoughts' by Helen Simpson, for the new issue of Granta Magazine. The story is about a man who cannot sleep at night, as he is being tortured by all the thoughts about his marriage.




Design and direction: Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits
Animation: Soyoung Hyun
Commissioned by: Michael Salu at Granta magazine.

Comment by Natalie Wilson on Ms.Blog magazine:

Greek-Italian filmmaker Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits puts us inside the mind of the male narrator, showing how he feels his wife Ella crushes his heart in her hand while stabbing him in the back. Yet he still longs for connection with her, imagining her naked body one minute and being reminded of her constant badgering of him the next. These “night thoughts,” both in the story and in the animated short, offer an illuminating reversal of life as we know it, suggesting that “matriarchy” would be no better than “patriarchy”–that a binary reversal is not what we should be seeking, but rather an explosion of the night/day, male/female system altogether.

 

 

 

 

It's Nice That @ Pick me Up!

I was drawing as part of It's Nice That collective last month, in a beautiful exhibition called Pick Me Up at Somerset House. I spent two days drawing alongside lovely illustrators, like Ian Wright and James Graham and produced some line drawings based on skype conversations and some colourful collages based on synchronized swimming. The drawings that weren't sold got offered at Egaku exhibition in Jaguar Shoes, the following weekend, which got set up as a fundraiser for the Japan earthquakes.

Wagon Christ music video

I recently assisted Celyn Brazier with colouring and some animation for his new beautiful music video for Wagon Christ, in Nexus Productions. Here you can see the full music video.

'My Mother's Coat' wins in Estonia!

My film 'My Mother's Coat' won the 'best film' award from the Estonian Academy of Arts animation students' jury in Animated Dreams festival in Tallinn! Part of the Black Nights Film festival, Animated Dreams celebrated their 12th year in the festival. You can see the full list of winners in this page:
http://anima.poff.ee/eng/Animated-dreams

Seeking Asylum

These are some drawings i produced towards a pitch for an animated documentary about asylum seekers.

Jöns and the Spider

My new film is finally finished! A short film about a boy and a spider, whose friendship develops around the making of violins.

Co-directed with Soyoung Hyun
Sound design by Tom Lowe
Royal College of Art 2010

Second Skin

Double spread for Slashstroke magazine.
http://www.slashstrokemagazine.com/

 

            

 

My Mother's Coat

An excerpt from my graduation film at the Royal College of Art.




Stills from the film.

 

Happiness at Work

An Illustration composed by drawings created at Picasso Pictures and the Coningsby Gallery, London.

Multicultural Harringay

A poster made for a 'Transport for London' brief.

Insects

A series of collages based on the content of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' (2008)