Love in Idleness

Love in Idleness is a short animated film exploring the fleeting delusional loves relationship between Titania and Bottom. The film focuses on the transformation and transfiguration of the two characters in the act of a frantic lovemaking. Scratchy animated lines, morphed body parts, fragments of flesh intersect and crash together into the crude rhythmical act performed by the deluded donkey and the tricked woman. There is no story, no time and no roles: only raw emotions and sensations.

The film is made with charcoal on paper, the images are a series of drawings constantly erased and retraced.

1 Film, 80 Drawings, 7000 redrawn traces

Still Shakespeare is an exciting new series of experimental animation commissions, inspired by original research by Sally Barnden and produced in partnership with the London Shakespeare Centre at King's College London and animation companies Film Club at Th1ng and Sherbet.

The films are developed by Film London, in partnership with London Shakespeare Centre at Kings College London, animation company Film Club at Th1ng and animation company Sherbet. The aim of the project is to create contemporary artworks that take iconic Shakespearean imagery as their starting point and respond in a variety of irreverent and original ways, making Shakespeare current and engaging to wide audienc es and adding an additional, contemporary element to the Shakespeare 400 worldwide celebrations in 2016.

The artist filmmakers have been given access to the research and expertise of the London Shakespeare Centre. The key research feeding into the project is the PhD by Sally Barnden, Research Student, Department of English Language & Literature, King’s College London, supervised by Professor Gordon McMullan, Professor of English and founding member of the London Shakespeare Centre. Sally’s research on the intersection of Shakespeare’s plays, performance and photography is concerned with the way that certain well-known iconic images have been absorbed into a shared cultural memory.

The film ideas were developed during workshops supported by the Cultural Institute at Kings College London.

Film London is the capital's screen industries agency. We connect ideas, talent and finance to develop a pioneering creative culture in the city that delivers success in film, television, animation, games and beyond. We work to sustain, promote and develop London as a global content production hub, support the development of the city's new and emerging filmmaking talent and invest in a diverse and rich film culture. Funded by the Mayor of London and the National Lottery through the BFI, we also receive support from Arts Council England, Creative Skillset and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Still Shakespeare is part of Film London Shakespeare on Screen http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/shakespeare