# animate! › Films › 13 by Simon Faithfull › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/13/all Discovery terms: 2000s animation, digital drawing, animated gif, urban landscape, death, memory, road movie, filmmaker, artist 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. --- **13** a film by Simon Faithfull [Simon Faithfull](https://www.simonfaithfull.org) 2004, 5 min 25 sec [Film / embedded media](https://www.youtube.com/embed/pWFjVsgGD9c) ![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1320.jpg) 01:03:49:20 ### animate! synopsis A melancholy journey through a nebulous urban landscape. The film’s elliptic and fantastical progress along a universe parallel to the A13 trunk road takes place in the mind of a dying dog sniffing its way back to its birthplace in Barking. ### one sentence synopsis A melancholy journey through a strangely dissolving and pixillated landscape of the A13 trunk road. ### short synopsis A melancholy journey along the A13 trunk road. Created from pixillated Palm Pilot drawings, the film conveys an elliptic and fantastical journey through a parallel universe. ### long synopsis A melancholy journey through a strangely dissolving and pixillated landscape. Created from Palm Pilot drawings made whilst walking along the A13 trunk road – the film presents the journey in the mind of a dog as it sniffs its way back to Barking. A road movie in a parallel universe, populated by ghost lorries in the night and suffused with the pathos of dying light. Sound by Joe Wilson of the Sneaker Pimps. ### key credits **director** Simon Faithfull **sound** Joe Wilson **producer** Nick Herrett ### Simon Faithfull #### biography Born in Braziers Park, Oxfordshire – Simon Faithfull is the product of a utopian experiment in communal living. He studied art first at Central St. Martins and then went on to do an MFA at Reading University. In 1996 he made the part-animated **Isle of Dogs** for the BBC’s *10×10* series. He founded the digital arts organization [e-2](http://www.e-2.org) in 1998 which commissioned 9 web-based commissions including *Word Perfect* by Tomoko Takahashi and *Cruisin* by Susan Collins. Simon’s drawings and installations have been in numerous national and international solo & group exhibitions over the last seven years. His practice as an artist has been as varied and unstable as some of his experiments, ranging from installations such the *Hertford Union* (where he punctured the Chisenhale Gallery’s wall to pump in water from the unseen canal) to video works such as *30Km* (which uses a camera attached to a weather balloon to record a journey from his face to the edge of space). The other side to his practice utilises a Palm Pilot as a crude drawing device that enables digital sketches to be made in situ and dispatched out to the world via email or the web – the Palm Pilot becoming a kind of psychogeographer’s mapping tool. In late 2004 he started a two month journey to Antarctica from which he is sending back a drawing a day via email. Later in 2005 this and other film work made in Antarctica will be collected together to form a national touring exhibition. He is a part-time lecturer at Goldsmiths College, and lives in London. 28 November 2004 #### short biography Simon’s drawings and installations have been in numerous national and international solo & group exhibitions over the last seven years. In 1996 he made the part-animated **Isle of Dogs** for the BBC’s *10×10* series. He is part-time lecturer at Goldsmiths College, and in 1998 founded the digital arts organisation [e-2](http://www.e-2.org) to explore and commission works for the internet. Simon lives in London. 27 May 2003 #### artist’s website [Simon Faithfull](http://www.simonfaithfull.org) Simon Faithfull’s website ### Joe Wilson #### short biography Joe Wilson is a music and art producer. In the last ten years he has been producer and live musician with the pop group *Sneaker Pimps*, touring extensively and selling over 1.5 million records. 18 October 2004 #### artist’s website [Joe Wilson and the Sneaker Pimps](http://www.sneakerpimps.com/) the official _Sneaker Pimps_ website ### sound composed by Joe Wilson ### direction **director** Simon Faithfull ### sound personnel **sound** Joe Wilson ### production personnel **producer** Nick Herrett ### support **primary funding** an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4 © Simon Faithfull 2004 [![13, still: 01:00:00:00 *13* title card](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1301.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1301.jpg) 01:00:00:00 **13** title card - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1302.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1302.jpg) 01:00:07:20 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1303.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1303.jpg) 01:00:42:20 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1304.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1304.jpg) 01:00:51:15 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1305.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1305.jpg) 01:01:07:14 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1306.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1306.jpg) 01:01:23:24 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1307.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1307.jpg) 01:01:36:12 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1308.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1308.jpg) 01:01:52:20 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1309.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1309.jpg) 01:02:17:22 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1310.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1310.jpg) 01:02:23:23 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1311.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1311.jpg) 01:02:33:19 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1312.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1312.jpg) 01:02:35:03 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1313.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1313.jpg) 01:02:44:17 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1314.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1314.jpg) 01:02:49:03 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1315.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1315.jpg) 01:02:52:22 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1316.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1316.jpg) 01:03:06:06 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1317.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1317.jpg) 01:03:16:23 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1318.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1318.jpg) 01:03:31:12 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1319.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1319.jpg) 01:03:38:16 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1320.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1320.jpg) 01:03:49:20 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1321.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1321.jpg) 01:04:05:18 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1322.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1322.jpg) 01:04:14:03 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1323.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1323.jpg) 01:04:21:24 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1324.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1324.jpg) 01:04:33:05 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1325.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1325.jpg) 01:04:39:00 - *click on image for full size still* [![13, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/1326.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/1326.jpg) 01:04:57:13 - *click on image for full size still* ### technical #### process summary A series of original drawings made with the artist’s Palm Pilot, on location at the A13 trunk road. These are then layered and assembled through Photoshop and Image Ready to produce a series of animated gifs, that are in turn edited and overlaid via Final Cut Pro into a complete film. ### master copy format **format** DigiBeta **colour or black & white** black & white ### video distribution format **video format** DigiBeta **screen aspect ratio** 16:9 **video standard** PAL **sound type** stereo ### distributor LUX [info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk) +44 (0)20 7503 3980 [www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/) **13** film, stills and other materials © Simon Faithfull 2004