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Celebratory Tom Cruise in Top Gun pumpkin head. Friday, October 30, 2009.

Finished the little Korean intro yesterday - it should be online somewhere soon. To celebrate I carved a Hallowe'en pumpkin in the style of Tom Cruise in Top Gun.

posted by Felix @ Friday, October 30, 2009 0 Comments

Everyone is just redesigning their website. Friday, October 23, 2009.

For the last few days I've been working on a little festival intro for when Sarah goes off to a festival in Korea in November. Been quite fun so far.

Nothing else has happened. Might have time to carve a pumpkin for Hallowe'en at this rate.

posted by Felix @ Friday, October 23, 2009 0 Comments

Lille festival international du courte metrage 2009. Tuesday, October 13, 2009.

Lille was very good. Sadly I only survived two hours of the neuf heure animation marathon but above is one of the posters, from my last post, in action at the event. Amazingly not only did they decorate the walls, they decorated the tables too:

I had to stand in front a crowd of French people (1,000 at one point) and talk English at them three times. This went ok for the first time, but the second time I thought it'd be silly to say the same thing as before so I tried to think of a second interesting thing to say. By the third time I didn't have anything very interesting to say at all. The moral of this story is that it's better to repeat yourself three times than to say sequentially less interesting different things.

Also worth noting is that when my film finished playing in front of the 1,000 strong crowd they started meowing - I assume because of le chat in my film but a small part of my brain was wondering whether people from primary school were back and mocking me for being called Felix; as in Felix the cat. I slept in the Fetal position that night.

A good festival if you get the chance to go.

Next up for The surprise demise of Francis Cooper's mother is the International Short Film Festival, Berlin at the beginning of November. Then it's in...

...here in Bristol in the middle of November.

posted by Felix @ Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1 Comments

With time off. Thursday, October 1, 2009.

The last couple of weeks have been event free. Mostly I've just been bumbling around. Next week however I'll be bumbling around in a whole new country. I'm off to the fourth largest metropolitan area in France - that's right, Lille - for the Lille festival international du courte metrage. I think there is a competition screening somewhere on Friday 9th at 5pm and then nine hours of animation (?!) on Saturday from 9pm until 6am. Then there's a closing ceremony on Sunday. I will be around for all of those - probably gazing at the wonderful poster featuring Craig McKay from The surprise demise of Francis Cooper's mother: