# animate! » Editorial » 2006 Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/page/3/ Discovery terms: animate! archive The following is the archived page text; discovery terms above are separately sourced metadata. Archive status: restored in 2026; historical calls, deadlines and services are closed. --- ## Archive for 2006 ### [animate! presents Gothic Tales at Leeds Festival](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/07/animate-presents-gothic-tales-at-leeds-festival/) Sunday 27 August 2006 13:00 A maelstrom mix of animate! commissions enlivens the famous Leeds Festival, the UK’s biggest music festival in 2006. Relish a collection of spooky stories revealing the darker side of animation - and life - before the big bands play on the final day of this Mean Fiddler celebration for the Bank \[...\] ### [animate! Extending the Image in Hull and Hastings](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/07/animate-extending-the-image-in-hull-and-hastings/) 4 & 5 August 2006 A special programme of recent commissions from the animate! project, venturing into fresh narrative territories and visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation. In each of the ten films in Extending the Image : animate! 02-05 the artist breaks the rules and the exhilaration is compelling: 13 by Simon \[...\] ### [Author Author at Port Eliot LitFest Cornwall](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/07/author-author-at-port-eliot-litfest-cornwall/) Saturday 22 July 2006 18:00 Often referred to as the ‘Glastonbury for books’, Port Eliot Literary Festival is celebrated for the wide-ranging list of artists, writers, thinkers, stinkers, chefs, dress-makers and ne’erdowells that have appeared over the last three years. The animate! project is proud to curate a special film programme from its back catalogue as \[...\] ### [The New Flesh at Hayward Gallery London](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/07/the-new-flesh-at-hayward-gallery-london/) Friday 21 July 2006 21:00 - 01:00 In a major Hayward Night for the Gallery’s Undercover Surrealism exhibition, animate! joins forces with Halloween to present The New Flesh, a visceral evening of musical and cinematic interventions exploring Georges Bataille’s trademark themes of sex and death, and the legacy of his dissident surrealism in popular culture. Buck 65 \[...\] ### [Experiments and Animations at Latitude Festival Suffolk](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/07/experiments-and-animations-at-latitude-festival-suffolk/) Sunday 16 July 2006 17:00 animate! raids the archive to hand-pick a programme of strikingly diverse and entertaining films at Latitude Festival, Mean Fiddler’s long packed weekend of music & arts near Southwold, Suffolk, and their most ambitious event this year. The visual treats on show include: 15th February by Tim Webb, Cowboys by Phil Mulloy, Dad’s \[...\] ### [Hyperlive : Animation and the Camera at SFSS London](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/07/hyperlive-animation-and-the-camera-at-sfss-london/) Saturday 15 July 2006 12:30pm On the final day of this year’s acclaimed Curzon Soho Short Film Summer School, animate! presents a special programme of commissions that were captured in live-action then super-charged into the animated realm. The screening is followed by a discussion with Tony Grisoni, one of Britain’s leading screenwriters for directors including Terry Gilliam \[...\] ### [Sukhdev Sandhu on Portraiture in Contemporary Animation](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/06/sukhdev-sandhu-on-portraiture-in-contemporary-animation/) The following transcript is taken from animate!’s three-part series of screening & discussion evenings in Spring 2006 at the National Portrait Gallery, London, entitled Tracing the Contours: Portraiture and Place in Contemporary Animation, investigating the unique way in which animation, the manipulated moving image, can amplify notions of portraiture. The third evening Private Eyes: Portraits Inside \[...\] ### [6 new animate! tv commissions in 2006](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/06/6-new-animate-tv-commissions-in-2006-2/) There were 155 submissions to animate! tv’s latest commissioning round. Six projects, three from London and three from rest-of-UK, have been chosen to share the annual production funding provided by Arts Council England and Channel 4 Television. The artists in animate! tv’s new slate for 2006 are Andy Martin End of the Street, John Thomson & \[...\] ### [Animating the City at Riverside Studios London](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/06/animating-the-city-at-riverside-studios-london/) Thursday 22 June 2006 21:00 animate! presents a dynamic, diverting, sometimes disturbing but always hugely imaginative exploration of urban lives and locales. Nine wide-ranging films in this programme, selected from the ever-expanding catalogue of animate! commissions, reveal fresh perspectives of the city: 13 by Simon Faithfull, Black, White & Green by Ian Bourn, Dad’s Dead by Chris \[...\] ### [animate! Splash on The BBC Big Screen Liverpool](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/06/animate-splash-on-the-bbc-big-screen-liverpool/) 2 - 15 June 2006 Radical animation splashes onto the biggest screen in the ‘Pool throughout the first fortnight in June. 37Seconds presents a collection of exhilarating works specially selected from animate!’s catalogue of commissions, demonstrating that there is so much more to animation than just… animation! Five times every day, the half-hour programme cascades onto the \[...\]