Emma Calder Movies

  • 2019
    The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor

    The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor

    The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor

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    The story of married animators, John Halas and Joy Batchelor. A Jewish emigre from Hungary and a working class woman from Watford, England, John and...

    The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor
  • 2018
    Secrets of British Animation

    Secrets of British Animation

    Secrets of British Animation

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    BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

    Secrets of British Animation
  • 2022
    Beware of Trains

    Beware of Trains

    Beware of Trains

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    A woman with extreme anxiety is devoured by four major preoccupations - the man she met by chance on a train, her dying father, her daughter's...

    Beware of Trains
  • 2016
    Roger Ballen's Theatre of Apparitions

    Roger Ballen's Theatre of Apparitions

    Roger Ballen's Theatre of Apparitions

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    An animated theatre of dismembered people, beasts and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and tear themselves apart, a nightmarish subconscious world,...

    Roger Ballen's Theatre of Apparitions
  • 2013
    Boudica: A Norfolk Story

    Boudica: A Norfolk Story

    Boudica: A Norfolk Story

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    Despite a gap of nearly two thousand years, Boudica remains at the forefront of the public imagination. Her story has been passed down the...

    Boudica: A Norfolk Story
  • 1988
    James Bonk in Matt Blackfinger

    James Bonk in Matt Blackfinger

    James Bonk in Matt Blackfinger

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    The parody of the famous agent thriller is a production of The Japanese American Toy Theatre of London. The cast was recruited solely from a toy...

    James Bonk in Matt Blackfinger
  • 1983
    1984

    1984

    1984

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    A film commissioned and conceived by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi using drawings and photocopies provided by him. A non-narrative film focusing on...

    1984
  • 1981
    Ilkla Moor Baht Hat

    Ilkla Moor Baht Hat

    Ilkla Moor Baht Hat

    01981HD

    Animated paper cut-outs. An amusing interpretation of the traditional Yorkshire circular song. A man goes courting on Ilkla Moor without his hat,...

    Ilkla Moor Baht Hat
  • 1989
    The Turd Family go on Holiday

    The Turd Family go on Holiday

    The Turd Family go on Holiday

    01989HD

    Using powerful imagery, black humour, and a liberal helping of appalling bad taste, the directors set out to draw people's attention to the state of...

    The Turd Family go on Holiday
  • 1989
    The Drummer

    The Drummer

    The Drummer

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    An itinerant drummer boy is visited in his sleep by a beautiful princess. She requests his help in escaping from an evil witch who has entrapped her...

    The Drummer
  • 1983
    Madame Potatoe

    Madame Potatoe

    Madame Potatoe

    01983HD

    A film about the pressure which society puts upon people to project different images, particularly the image of success. Through the medium of potato...

    Madame Potatoe
  • 1986
    Springfield

    Springfield

    Springfield

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    A range of drawing techniques are used to explore themes of domestic alienation and romantic fantasy about housewives, hoovering, bingo halls and a...

    Springfield
  • 1992
    The Kings of Siam

    The Kings of Siam

    The Kings of Siam

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    A pair of Siamese Twins live and work as part of a travelling fair. One dreams of being a rock and roll star, while the other dreams of scoring the...

    The Kings of Siam
  • 1998
    The Queen's Monastery

    The Queen's Monastery

    The Queen's Monastery

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    Inspired by Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta, The Queen's Monastery is about a woman whose lover, a former acrobat, has returned to her from war a changed...

    The Queen's Monastery