The Prime Minister defiant, cigar clenched between his teeth, fingers raised in a victory salute: this iconic image is what many people call to mind when they hear the name ‘Winston Churchill’.
So that’s it folks, Bradford Animation Festival 2014 is now over—and what a week it was! Here’s the complete run-down of all our award-winning filmmakers.
This year’s BAF sees women in animation and gaming as a central theme. We delved into the research to find out if expectations had changed for modern female characters.
Jamie Sefton looks ahead to the some of the gaming highlights for BAF 2014, including a very special talk from Colin Graham, Animation Director of bestselling action-adventure game Watch_Dogs.
Jack Hynes, Camera Assistant for Ammonite Films, explains how big a camera you’d need to film the smallest of insects.
Selections from our photography collection illustrate the public spectacle (and some behind-the-scenes details) of the 1948 Olympics.
On 4 August 1914 the largest global conflict the world had witnessed began. We look at the role photography played in representing the ‘War to End All Wars’.
From x-rays to pagodas—Scottish photography isn’t (exclusively) tartan or covered in heather.
Surely Scottish photography would be photographs by Scots, of Scots, in Scotland, wouldn’t it? But of course nothing is ever straightforward, so why should Scottish photography be any different?
Musician Jono Podmore writes on scoring early British science films for a world premiere at Bradford International Film Festival.
What happens when film festivals show old, ‘undiscovered’ films? Film Programme Manager Tom Vincent writes on press coverage for our recent Yoshitaro Nomura retrospective.
Martin Parr and Susie Parr discuss controversy, their careers, social media’s impact on photography and Tony Ray-Jones’s influence.