2020

During a long hot summer in the forest, Child is forced to grow up. First her Dog becomes ill, then out of the blue her Mother returns to their dacha with a new lover. Child’s world is turned upside down. With each unsettling event, her visions become stronger to the point where she decides on a dangerous decision. Chado combines digital animation and risograph printing to transform a coming of age tale into an enchanting short film.

Chado is produced by Animate Projects, co-produced with Blind Pig, and made with the support of BFI NETWORK

A touring show ‘Chado: Dreaming In Texture’ displaying production risograph prints and sketchbooks have been held in venues in UK in 2020 and 2021. Click below for details and photos:

Leicester Print Workshop. Chado: Dreaming In Texture

Bath Artists Studios. Chado: Dreaming In Texture

Talks & Press:

30/09/2020. Leicester Print Workshop: ‘In Conversation With Dominica Harrison’. Watch the recording of the talk HERE

12/09/2021. London College of Communication - MA Animation course. ‘Production and Development of a Short Film.’

24/11/2021. Directors Notes. Online premiere of Chado. Read the full article HERE

Awards

Second prize at the 19th International Kansk Video Festival, Russia, online 23-29 August 2020

Nominated for the McLaren Award for Best British Animation at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2020, UK (festival cancelled but nomination still stands)

BAFTA 2021 Longlist in the category ‘Short British Animation’

Nominated for Animated Category Award at Film Pride Festival, 2nd - 31st Aug, online and on TV, 2021

Festivals

Selected for the International Competition at the 18th International Animation Festival in Japan - HIROSHIMA 2020, online Jury, 20-24 August 2020 (private jury presentation only)

In competition at the 2020 DC Shorts Film Festival, US, online, 10-23 September 2020

Selected for the International Panorama at the 13th Animasyros International Animation Festival + Agora, Greece, live and online, 23-27 September 2020

Selected for the 12th Weird International Animation Market and Festival, Spain, 28 September to 4 October 2020

Selected for the International Competition for Animated Shorts at Animatou

International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 1-10 October 2020

Selected for the Animation Volda Festival, Norway, 1-4 October 2020

Selected for the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF), UK, online, 5-19 October 2020

Selected for BALKANIMA European Animated Film Festival, Serbia, 6-11 October 2020

In competition at the Festival of Animation Berlin 2020, Germany, 9-11 October 2020

Selected for VIDEOQUEER 2020 - Florence Queer Festival, Italy, 13-18 October 2020

Selected for TAF: Thessaloniki Animation Festival, Greece, online, 22-30 October 2020

Selected for Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival!, US, online, 23-30 October 2020

Selected for a special programme at SHOUT Festival, UK, online, 5-15 November 2020

In competition at the London International Animation Festival, UK, live and online, 27 November - 6 December 2020

Selected for Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, 29 October - 9 December 2020

Selected for 2020 Pöff Shorts, Tallinn, Estonia, 17-25 November 2020

Selected for Les Sommets du cinéma de animation - Festival international de Montréal, Canada, 1-6 December 2020

Selected for 2020 Bit Bang International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Argentina, online, 9-20 November 2020

Selected for 34th Leeds International Film Festival, in cinemas and online, 3-19 November 2020

Selected for CRASH – 12th International Fantastic Film Festival 2020, Brazil, online, 9-13 December 2020

In competition at the 40th edition Anima Film Festival, Belgium, live and online, 12-21 February 2021

Selected for Void film festival, Denmark, online and offline, 25 February - 6 March 2021

In competition at the 25th edition of ANIMAC 2021, Spain, online and offline, 25 February - 7 March 2021

In competition at the Tricky Women/ Tricky Realities Festival, Austria, online 10-14 March 2021

In competition at Insomnia Open-Air Animation Film Festival, Russia, live, July 2021 (rescheduled from July 2020)

2016

A wonder through a liminal space with goats, stairs and labyrinths.

This a film about two characters that meet because of an accident, due to which they find themselves lost, each in their own limbo. To get out, they need to win a simple game with only one rule: the next level is just a step down. 
The film is inspired by short story "Goats Eyes" by Max Frei.

Film is done entirely in screen-printing technique, which means that all the frames were drawn by hand, turned into colour separations and screen printed on A3 sheets of paper, then scanned back in to create an animated sequence. More than 400 screen prints were created while making the film.

You can but original screen prints from the film HERE

All prints were exhibited in my solo show 'Illusions" Short Film in Screen Print' in Edinburgh. More information about exhibition can be found HERE .

The film premiered in Edinburgh on 6th June as part of ECA Graduation Show in the Filmhouse cinema. 

AWARDS:

NEO:Print Prize Award - Jackson's Art Supplies 

Locomotion Animation Festival - Emergent Trigger Award

Feel The Reel Film Festival - Best Animation 

RTS Scotland Student Award (Shortlisted) 

Vimeo Staff Pick

FESTIVALS:

Edinburgh International Film Festival - Official Selection
Desert Dust Animation Festival - Official Selection
Driftless Film Festival - Official Selection
Nahemi Encounters Film Festival - Official Selection
Kuandu International Animation Festival - Official Selection
Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival - Official Selection
World Festival of Animated Film - Best of The World Panorama
ANNY: Animation Nights New York - Official Selection
London International Animation Festival - Official Selection
Etuida et Anima Festival - Official Selection
Locomation Experimental Animation Festival - Official Selection
Cartoons Underground Festival - Official Selection
Animated Dreams - Official Selection
ETO Animation Pinata Screening
British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin - Sputnik Kino Bar Showcase

The Old Snake Fell Asleep On The Grass

2017

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The film was made as part of 'Preschool Poets' project, organised by Nancy Kangas and Joshua Kun.
Preschool Poets is a series of eight short animated films based on poems composed by four and five year olds.

To find out more about the project, please visit preschoolpoets.org.

Preschool Poets on Kickstarter

The preview screening for this film along with 7 other films by different internationally based animators was on 1st December 2017 in Wexner Centre For the Arts in Columbus, OH, USA on 1st December.

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The poem I worked on was called 'The Old Snake Went To Sleep On The Grass' written by Michaiah and read by Princeton.

In this film, an old snake swirls in a world of desire, and finally twists and turns into purples, blues, and browns.

Animatic (published by OakHouse Films): https://vimeo.com/223786963

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Festivals and Awards

MAST's Voices Seen animation contest: WINNER (2019)

BFI Network: PICK OF THE SEASON (2019)

Anilogue Animation Festival (2019)

Fest Anca (2019)

Credits

Producer: Rob Marr

Writer: Rob Marr

Music: Rob Marr

Director: Dominica Harrison

Animator: Dominica Harrison

The Book of Man was conceived and written by Robert Marr. The album is a combination of songs interwoven with stories that cover four generations of the male side of his family. The tale begins with a berry eating competition between two young boys. The younger child is poisoned and dies. The older boy (his grandfather) is exiled to boarding school. As the songs and stories unfold we see the ripples of this event down the generations.

Kim Noce and I came on board to create the animation of the first two chapters. Together we decide to explore the art of animation and comics, how it can be merged in the moving format retaining the beauty of both two arts. We created a grid inspired by Emma Kunz healing geometrical patterns and each of us developed our own take on the story.

The film is an hybrid between animation, comic book and podcast. I was interested in looking at various options for dividing the space of the screen to allow several narratives happen simultaneously. The particular challenge was to find a correct balance between filling the screen with animation and leaving enough space to keep the words of the song in focus.

July 2020

Full video for The Book Of Man: Chapter 1: https://vimeo.com/436126336

Festivals:

Animasyros Animation Festival 2021, 22-26 September, Greece

Special Mention at the ISO International Film Festival, 13-18 August, online edition.

The Noodle Master (Rachakuuiteo) 

2017

A little film about the great Rachakuiteo, owner of the street food cart somewhere in Bangkok, the maker of the tastiest noodles in the town. Even though the process might seem a bit unconventional, the result is always delicioussss.

The film is made during the last week of the internship at Monk Studios, thai animation studio based in Bangkok. This is a collaboration with Vaibhav Keswani. gonekeswani.tumblr.com/
Sound design by Pawitra Sukhawathanakul. pawitra0518.wixsite.com/portfolio

Misshape Happenings

2017

Sound Design: Robin Porter

'A peak into the carefully balanced mind of a cosmic shaman who struggles to keep his world unchanged.'

This film was made as part of my artistic residency with East London Printmakers studio in London. 

This film is a continuous experiment of combining screen printing techniques and animation. Addition challenge here for me was creating some 3D computer generated elements and use them as a basis for the drawn animation. Moduled shapes and environments presented through printed medium transform in their purpose: something that was originally 3-dimensional is reduced to its flat representational form and through this transformation is becoming something completely new. 

Festivals

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) 2017

Norwich Underground Film Club 2017

Far away Film Fest 2018

 2015

Film describing a journey of two fellow creatures, on the way to complete a routine task. 

Made with collaboration with Gomeda

Film was drawn frame-by-frame, and then screen printed on grainy paper and scanned in to create an animation. 

FESTIVALS: 

Varna Animation Festival, Bulgaria 2015
Insomnia Animation Festival, Ukraine, 2015
Edinburgh Student Arts Festival, Edinburgh, 2015
Hidden Doors Festival, Edinburgh, 2016
Desert Dust Animation Festival, USA, 2016

September 2016 Loop de Loop submission. 
Theme: Neighboors

Every frame of this loop was screen-printed by hand.

Blind had is a moving image installation made using solar plate printing technique and real flies and wasps dried up and stored inside projector slides. Made in collaboration with Ben Thompson.

It had been inspired by a poem ‘The Fly’ by Blake.

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The Fly

William Blake - 1757-1827

Little fly,

Thy summer’s play

My thoughtless hand

Has brushed away.

Am not I

A fly like thee?

Or art not thou

A man like me?

For I dance

And drink and sing,

Till some blind hand

Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life

And strength and breath,

And the want

Of thought is death,

Then am I

A happy fly,

If I live,

Or if I die.