# animate! › Films › 13 by Simon Faithfull

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, digital drawing, animated gif, urban landscape, death, memory, road movie, filmmaker, artist

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**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

### sound composed by Joe Wilson

### 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.

### key credits

**director**
Simon Faithfull

**sound**
Joe Wilson

**producer**
Nick Herrett

**13** film, stills and other materials © Simon Faithfull 2004