# animate! › Films › 13 by Simon Faithfull › direction & collaboration Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/13/biography 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 ### 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 **13** film, stills and other materials © Simon Faithfull 2004