London International Animation Festival 2024

Magic in Marimekko: Dick Arnall, Animate and the Manipulated Moving Image - A Tribute

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Dick Arnall, the hugely influential producer of many of Britain’s most important animators, and a key figure in Channel 4’s Animate! commissioning series in the 1990s and early 2000s, would have been 80 this year. His death aged 62 in 2007 robbed the animation world of one of its most passionate and committed advocates. Dick’s wide-ranging tastes, warm enthusiasm and his profound engagement with what he preferred to call the ‘manipulated moving image’ began in his student years and took many different forms over the decades to come. This programme gathers just a handful of the numerous often award-winning titles he either produced or consulted on, and includes a film by his wife, the Finnish animator Marjut Rimminen and the acclaimed Rabbit by the late Run Wrake, who also died far too early, in 2012. In what we take as a significant conjunction, this event takes place on what was Run’s birthday.


The event is conceived, curated and hosted by Gareth Evans, who worked editorially on Animate! with Dick.


Recommended age 15

When death takes away her child, a mother gives up everything to get her back. ‘Death and the Mother’ is Ruth Lingford’s re-telling of a classic fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

  • Year
    1988
  • Runtime
    10 minutes
  • Country
    UK
  • Rating
    15
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  • Filmmaker
    Ruth Lingford