Ruth Lingford
Ruth Lingford | |
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Born | London, England | 20 May 1953
Nationality | English |
Education | BA in fine arts and art history at Middlesex Polytechnic, MA at the Royal College of Art, Honorary Doctor of Arts from University of Wolverhampton |
Occupation(s) | Animator, senior lecturer, occupational therapist (former) |
Ruth Lingford is an
Animation work
Early work
Lingford began her work in animation when she made Baggage and Crumble (both 1992) as part of her
Death and the Mother and other acclaimed works
On her next project, Ruth Lingford was invited at the
Lingford's following project, Pleasures of War, of the same year, moved against "the 'plastic' gloss-orientation of much
From the 2000s onward
The Old Fools (2002) was Ruth Lingford's following project, again, commissioned by Channel 4.[12] It is an adaptation of the Philip Larkin's homonymous poem – written while her mother was in a nursing home.[8] In terms of style, The Old Fools marks a departure from Lingford's computer-drawn evocative imagery; its aesthetics, rather combining DV footage, are drawings and typography animated in After Effects and Painter. With the Shynola collective, Lingford worked next on a music video for the music band Unkle, An Eye for an Eye (2002). The collaboration was successful, and remained inlined with Lingford's previous imagery : "a sublimely creepy evocation of the biological drives and desires".[7] Lingford also collaborated on a fellow Harvard professors' film: Secrecy (2008), where her animated sequences served "to create a contrast between imaginary and literal realms of the secrecy system".[15] Likewise, she animated sequences from another film – We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân (2010) – by Anne Makepeace.
Little Deaths (2010), Lingford's latest standalone work, begun after she received a 2008–09 Harvard Film Study Center Fellowship. In the pre-production process, she wanted to 'interview' people about their orgasms. Lingford recalled she expected her interviewees to lack proper words to describe their private experiences, but they did not. She used their commentary, in "celebrat[ing] key aspects of our experience that are often suppressed," and continued to develop her experimental aesthetic of animation "to evoke the elusive physical and emotional experience of orgasm".[16]
As of recently, Lingford has been part of the band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? for whom she has animated the song "The Ladies' Tree",[17] and sang as a back vocalist.
Filmography
Title | Release Date | Based On | Runtime |
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Little Deaths | 2010 | 11:58 | |
UNKLE: Eye for an Eye | 2002 | 6:30 | |
The Old Fools | 2002 | The Old Fools by Philip Larkin | 5:40 |
Pleasures of War | 1998 | Book of Judith | 11:00 |
Death and the Mother | 1997 | The Story of a Mother | 10:37 |
What She Wants | 1994 | 5:00 | |
Crumble | 1992 | 4:00 | |
Baggage | 1992 | 4:17 |
Title | Release Date | Directed by | Role |
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We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân | 2010 | Anne Makepeace | Animator |
Secrecy | 2008 | Peter Galison, Robb Moss | Animator |
Silence | 1998 | Orly Yadin, Sylvie Bringas | Animator |
Series Title | Episode Title | Season | Episode | Release Date | Directed by | Role |
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends | The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or the Roly-Poly Pudding | 1 | 2 | 1993 | Mike Stuart, Dianne Jackson | Rendering artist
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Series Title | Episode Title | Season | Episode | Release Date | ||
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Animation Nation | Visions of Childhood | 1 | 3 | 2005 |
References
- ^ "University honorary degrees announced". wlv.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ a b c Robinson, Chris. "Ruth Lingford: Old Halo Coffins Layered." Unsung Heroes of Animation. Eastleigh, UK : John Libbey, 2005. 254–264. Print.
- ^ "animafest.hr". animafest.hr. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "Person – Holland Animation Film Festival – HAFF". haff.nl. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "International Short Film Festival – Clermont-Ferrand". clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "International Short Film Festival – Clermont-Ferrand". clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ a b c Pummel, Simon. "Thunder Under Oppresion." Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012. pp.70–86. Print.
- ^ Skwigly. Web. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
- ^ Wells, Paul. "The Language of Animation." Introduction to Film Studies. Ed. Nelmes, Jill. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. 254. Print.
- ^ Winston, Brian. "Ça va de soi: The Visual Representation of Violence in the Holocaust Documentary." Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory and the Performance of Violence. Eds. Brink, Joram Ten and Joshua Oppenheimer. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2002. pp. 114. Print.
- ^ Lingford, Ruth and Tim Webb. "Silence: The Role of the Animators." Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television since 1993. Eds. Haggith, Toby and Joanna Newman. London : Wallflower, 2005. 173–182. Print.
- ^ a b Bendazzi, Giannalberto. Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times. CRC Press, 2015. pp. 77. Print.
- ^ Wells, Paul. Animation: Genre and Authorship. London ; New York : Wallflower, 2002. 29. Print.
- ^ N.a. "Ruth Lingford: The Pleasures of War – Interview." Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012. 77–78. Print.
- ^ Walker, Mia P. "Directors Reveal Truth About 'Secrecy'." The Harvard Crimson. Web. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
- ^ Honess Roe, Annabelle. Animated Documentary. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. pp. 123. Palgrave Connect. Web. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "Upcoming Events What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?". rockyneckartcolony.org. Retrieved 14 March 2016.