Joseph Wallace
Directing
Biography
Joseph Wallace is a BAFTA Cyrmu nominated animation and puppetry director. His award-winning work spans commercials, viral campaigns, music videos, short films and sequences for feature films and television. Described as ‘one of the UK’s most extraordinary stop-motion directors’ by London International Animation Festival, his work has been praised for its cinematic quality and unique aesthetic. His 2017 music video for Sparks was named one of the ten best British animated music videos of all time by Anim18 and led to Wallace creating stop motion sequences for Edgar Wright’s documentary feature ‘The Sparks Brothers’. Described by Mark Kermode as ‘dark wonders’, Wallace’s segments were nominated for Best Animation at the Cinema Eye Honours in New York in 2022. His celebrated short ‘Salvation Has No Name’, won various Grand Prix at top animation festivals, was long listed for both a BIFA and a BAFTA and received the Jury Special Mention for Unifrance Prix du Court Metrage at Cannes 2023. Joseph is a BAFTA member and talks regularly about animation and film at festivals and universities around the world.
Known For
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.
The Sparks Brothers
A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
Salvation Has No Name
Ivor's life is turned upside down after a falling plant pot sparks a series of paranoid reactions.
The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling
A gentleman, alone in his study, hurriedly writes a letter with an ink pen.
The Letter
In a woodland glade, an exhausted mythical creature is suffering from insomnia. When a small, verbose forest sprite appears and offers a sedative, it sounds like a perfect solution but the fatigued Wickywock is too impatient to heed the Sprite’s terms.
The Wickywock and the JubJub Berry
A creature wanders through a bleak environment watching, exploring and discovering objects that excite its curiosity
Curiouser & Curiouser
Mark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.
Natural Disaster
In the late afternoon sun the greedy landlord accosts the industrious farmer, demanding he pays the rent.