# animate! › Films › 13 by Simon Faithfull › synopses

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/13/synopses

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

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Archive status: restored in 2026; historical calls, deadlines and services are closed.

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**13** a film by Simon Faithfull

2004, 5 min 25 sec

### 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.

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