The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs


A short animated film depicting a walking football team formed in 2016 with the aim of enhancing fitness and social integration for men in the area of Crystal Palace, South London. The team derives its name from the dinosaur sculptures exhibited in Crystal Palace Park. These sculptures were built for the site in 1854 following the regeneration of the grounds, designed to educate, entertain, and facilitate sports activities. While modern paleontology has recognised the dinosaur sculptures as inaccurate, they were originally constructed based on the knowledge available at the time.

The walking football team serves as a community where men can discover friendship and support their physical and mental health. As a relatively new aspect of the beautiful game, walking football opens up a whole new world for individuals seeking a passion they may have thought was lost.

3m, 6s






Wembley 98



An animation about my experience of watching Grimsby Town FC play in the Auto Windscreens Final at Wembley in 1998.

1m, 15s





Showreel

1m








My Memory of Ivano Bonetti

An animation of Alex’s memory of the mid 90's when the Italian superstar Ivano Bonetti came to play for Grimsby Town (Alex’s home-team).

1m




    

The Football Room

1m
                                                         





                               

Huh!

An animation portraying one man’s journey towards running a half marathon. The monotonous routine of his daily life encourages him to sign up to the race in order to get fit. During training his imagination becomes somewhat ‘wild’; along with temptations from the pub.


With sound design by Steven Dove.

4m













Xabi’s Lost World

Xabi’s Lost World encapsulates the personal nostalgia of two very different worlds by combining my longstanding love of dinosaurs with my passion for football and muse Xabi Alonso. With sound design and music composition by Steven Dove, Xabi’s Lost World is an animation that encompasses struggles on the pitch, loneliness and – how in turn – our imagination and heroes can help us to overcome our fears.

4m, 42s













Escape from Syria – Fazia’s Story

After visiting Jordan, Jack interviewed Fazia – a Syrian refugee who fled across the border from Syria with her two children. He asked Fazia’s young children to draw pictures of their journey.

The animation takes inspiration from the children's drawings, using the voiceover of their mother Faiza to tell their story. It highlights the shocking numbers of displaced children, along with the large numbers of Syrian people who simply just ‘disappear’ under the Assad Regime.

An animation made with director Jack Newman, with sound design by Steven Dove.

5m, 02s











Olympic Swimming

An animation from the Swimming Pool series.

3m, 23s


                                                       









 People Doing



 An animation based on observations of people in London

  2m, 20s



















Meat Sweats

Stop-motion animation combining observational drawings of a kebab shop in Bermondsey, London with a passion for long-distance running.

3m, 14s















Fisherman’s Life

Stop motion created entirely from white chalk on blackboard, encapsulating the life of trawlermen going out to sea from the fishing docks of Grimsby.

2m, 33s














Columbia Road

Stop motion animation comprised from oil-paint, based on drawings of the Columbia Road Flower market, London.

1m


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