Still Shakespeare

Inspiration: Othello
Animator: Shaun Clark

In the marital bed the surreal sensuality enveloping Othello and Desdemona is disturbed by a dangling telephone. As the phone pours poison into Othello's mind he transforms into a different entity with detrimental consequences for Desdemona. The film is inspired by Shakespeare's Othello and is a dark surreal take on the relationship between the deceived Othello, the innocent Desdemona and the mendacious Iago. The film focuses on the neck of the characters, a common theme throughout the play which acts as a symbol of love, fragility and death.

Inspiration: Hamlet
Animator: Sharon Liu

Ophelia 2.0 is an animated short inspired by the John Everett Millais painting. Ophelia is transported to the future of 2016; the viewer experiences what she sees and touches in the last moments of her life. Sharon, a graduate from the RCA works in 2d animation in a colourful, ink and wash style.

Inspiration: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Animator: Kim Noce

Love in Idleness is a short animated film exploring the fleeting delusional love relationship between Titania and Bottom. The film focuses on the transformation and transfiguration of the two characters in the act of a frantic lovemaking. Scratchy animated lines, morphed body parts, fragments of flesh intersect and crash together into the crude rhythmical act performed by the deluded donkey and the tricked woman. There is no story, no time and no roles: only raw emotions and sensations.

Inspiration: King Lear
Animator: Meghana Bisineer

O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!/ I would not be mad /Keep me in temper./ I would not be mad. (Act 1 scene 5) Lead by his corrupt emotions and blindness to truth, King Lear is driven to face the beast of his darkness. He sows the seed to his own destruction, his madness projected onto the bleak and stormy landscape of the moors... where he stands holding his beloved and dead Cordelia.

Inspiration: Macbeth
Animator: Ben Sayer
Director: Farouq Suleiman

The Waking Dream is a short animation that explores the images of Lady Macbeth. As the title suggests, it unveils these images through Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking state. The film explores the themes of guilt and responsibility. It particularly plays with the 'bloody hand' motif and the Lady's inability to 'out damned spot'. The conjured images are re-creations and re-interpretations of popular images of Lady Macbeth that can be found in theatre, film, posters and the broader media.