# animate! › Films › Black, White & Green by Ian Bourn

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, 3d cgi, live action and animation, digital compositing, food, memory, london, experimental short film, filmmaker, artist

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**Black, White & Green – the way of pie** a film by Ian Bourn

2003, 7 min 50 sec

![Black, White & Green – the way of pie, still: “Pies are not cut. They are broken.”](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/blackwhiteandgreen11.jpg)

“Pies are not cut. They are broken.”

### a film by Ian Bourn

### animate! synopsis

In the setting of a traditional London eel and pie house, solitary diners ponder their steaming dinners, each glimpsing a personal landscape within the food on the plate.

**Black, White & Green** is a meditation on the aesthetics of pie, mash and green liquor, an exploration of the terrain and a revelation of what wriggles just below the surface.

### key credits

**director**
Ian Bourn

**writer**
Ian Bourn

**lighting camera**
Patrick Duval

**digital effects**
Asher Edwards
Max Horton

**compositor**
Daniel Saul

**sound designer**
Graeme Miller

**Black, White & Green – the way of pie** film, stills and other materials © Ian Bourn 2003