Tin Bath A welcome addition to Shahrokh Na'el's Scribble Screen's digital sketchbook, Tin Bath immortalises the recollections of veteran engineer, John Goodfellow, as he shares memories of a working class life resigned to the past, and soon to be lost to living memory. Swabbed with a monochromatic watercolour wash, it's ashen frames reflect both the subject's advancing age and the culture of mechanisation that has riveted his experiences together. Meanwhile, the clarion calls of foghorns and seagulls announce an animated armada of chugging boats – doffing a cap to Britain's imperial past; a delicate floral underlay hinting at the blossoming of the industrial age. It's the subtle touches that stand out within this affectionate composition. The flash of yellow blonde hair that picks out our narrator's infant self amongst his drab surroundings, the understated score that buoys the words of our octogenarian envoy as he guides us through a vignette of huffing smoke-stacks, toiling miners and humble, two-up-two-down terraced houses. “That was the good old days” Goodfellow assures us – offering the tech-toting children of later epochs a heady reminder that life's beauty lies not in its luxuries or conveniences – but in its simplicity. Those of us bound to the present day would do well to heed his message – and mine the gold accumulated by our predecessors whilst these invaluable resources remain available to us.

Tin Bath

A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe. The film explores our perception of time and change, bodies and objects, and our inability to comprehend the full motion of things.

Any Instant Whatever

Interference Is an experimental short film shot on the north east coast line of Tyne and wear and Northumberland. made to a sound track composed by the director michael Salkeld Made in 4K and 5.1 suround sound

Interference

A flash fiction created for a local competition #SeaSunderland. Inspired by living on the coast this fun 2 minute fantasy is set to an animation first drafted in 2012.

The most canny bird on the coast

2020 is the year in which everything seems to have stopped. However, Life always has different plans.

2020

A fluorescent bulb is shot from a cannon at high speed against a wall. At 3,000 frames per second and in its last moment, it can finally shed its inner light.

Fluorescent

What if making art could save your life? For this Peruvian-born New Yorker, painting helps heal physical and emotional trauma.

Maria Torres: Neighborhood Artist

A lonely bachelor seeks solace in an extra-terrestrial cult.

Cult Film

Distant memories of the past are recalled as fleeting fragments by a man in his eighties.

It's Raining, It's Pouring

Conversations about planetary destruction, global pandemics and the extinction of so many species, are never easy to start. The fact is, we are all complicit, simply because we have been born into a time of consumerism, avarice and blind searching. And the only way we are going to make it through this terrifying time as a species is if we work together in harmony with the planet rather than in opposition to it. The Ghastly Fowl takes a look at where we are now and where we could go from here, focusing on responsibility rather than blame. A stark, beautifully animated short story that peels away the layers of the human psyche in a countdown towards the end, which could also be the beginning.

The Ghastly Fowl

In the beginning, there was nothing. You can get nothing easily.

The Universe According to Dan Buckley

This short film is a love letter to 2019, before the madness, before we had heard of words like “Furlough”, “Self-Isolation”, “Social Distancing and when the number “19” was your final year as a teenager. Come 2020, and we are feeling anxious, not able to do the things we had taken for granted, living a half-life. “Messages to the Cosmos,” the writing of those feelings of negativity in the sand, the waves washing them away, to be returned with positive thoughts from the cosmos. Drifting words and sand scripts this is new wave art an unburdening of the past. Thanks to Ian Horn for the inspiration and sand writing poems and to Michelle Longstaff, for her insights and guidance "Drifting Words" Tides of Life erasing my thoughts and dreams As if nothing precious Out to drift in the seas beyond Soft Breezes carry back a sense of another Hopes gently fill the spaces between Found on the shores of souls

Messages to the Cosmos

Half of Everything

Opposites attract but the path to true love is never plain sailing.

Fire and Water

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