The following short film animations were made by Harriett Macdonald. She wanted to make shorts and music videos that pushed barriers, moved viewers and made them sit on the edge of their seats.
My passion for film has worried some people. At university I made an animation about a colour boy in a black-and-white world who saves a colour girl from a raindrop. The lecturer was silent and then said “Do you ever sleep?”
Since Graduating her films have been screened across Australia, in Melbourne’s Federation Square, Sydney’s TAP Gallery, Peatsridge Music Festival, and several times on national TV, on music show Jtv, and two years running in Australia’s New Year concert, The Falls. In 2008 one short was being screened in London’s Portobello Film Festival the biggest indie-screening in UK.
When not filming Harriet is writing for newspapers and magazines and designing book covers and making designs.
and she occasionally sleeps
Music video for brokenkites song Touch. Made from hundreds of cutout photocopies and drawings to create a sinister world watched over by menacing grannies…
An underwater journey into the world of Ondine…
Animated with cutouts and a flash-light in a wardrobe!
Screened on a cold night in Trafalgor Square during the BP Summer Screen’s live transmission of the Royal Opera House’s Ondine (London). The Square was full of people who had camped down to watch the ballet that night while the rest of london zoomed by in taxis, police cars the office blocks slowely darkened around us…
