Oliver Harrison
Directing
Biography
Oliver Harrison is an English filmmaker, artist and animator. His films have been shown at film festivals around the world including Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival and the London Film Festival. His feature film The Fallen Word premiered at the BFI Southbank, in 2013. Influential in motion graphics, particularly in kinetic typography, Harrison's work has been featured at Tate Modern,The Barbican Centre and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Known For
In a fantastic quasi Georgian (18th century) world, a fanatical religious sect "The Holy Exaltation" have taken control.
The Fallen Word
Winter bound, a snow queen dreams of love and the blooming of spring. Through frosted rococo cartouches she sings about the virtues of true love accompanied by miniature animated sequences.
Love is All
A dead woman wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked—an immigrant in death as in life.
The Zolle Suite
An animated film based on the typefaces and scripts of the 1920s and 30s set to an Italian song of the 1950s.
Amore Baciami
The invisible becomes visible. Every room has a spirit which sleeps beneath the layers of peeling paint and wallpaper. Spirit of Place observes the awakening of such a spirit, coerced into life by moonlight to reveal sumptuous velvets, decaying gilt, and an assemblage of neo-Gothic objects d‘art – a ghostly reflection of its past. In one long, carefully choreographed sequence, pictures animate and a message is disclosed as the motion control camera passes on its programmed course.