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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, pixilation, projected animation, the body, body decoration, ritual, experimental short film, filmmaker, animator

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**Body Projections** a film by Tony Donoghue

1998, 5 min 40 sec

[Film / embedded media](https://www.youtube.com/embed/cbHKmMR56C0)

![Body Projections, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/bodyprojections01.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

Written on the body, a pixillated pillow book of all flesh, this film questions adornment through rhythm and ritual, dream and suggestion, asking why? Sex, territory or cellular expression?

### short synopsis

**Body Projections** examines the human body through body painting, sound and pixillation. Rhythm, ritual and suggestion replace measurements and learning in an attempt to understand why we are drwan to body enhancement.

### long synopsis

In **Body Projections**, rhythm, ritual and suggestion replace measurements and learning in a dreamlike exploration of why, as a species, we have such a history of body decoration. Using projected animation on pixiliated bodies, the film asks why humans paint their bodies – is it a sexual or even territorial gesture or are the body’s cells shouting out in self expression?

### key credits

**director**
Tony Donoghue

**editor**
Dave Borthwick

**music**
Peter Brandt

### Tony Donoghue

#### short biography

Tony Donoghue worked as a zoologist at the Natural History Museum before becoming a filmmaker. He studied animation at West Surrey College of Art and runs the animation course at Dun Laoghaire, Eire.

1997

### a film by Tony Donoghue

### direction

**director**
Tony Donoghue

### cast in picture

**bodies**
Michelle Blower
Liz Lewitt
Stefan Marjoram
John Hayward
Sue Khosravi
Richard Lynn

### image personnel

**editor**
Dave Borthwick

### sound personnel

**music**
Peter Brandt

### production personnel

**technical support**
Glen Hall
Lew Gardner
Nigel Davies
Mark Taylor

### support

**thanks**
Todd-AO, Metrocolor, Technicolor, A for Animation

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award

© Tony Donoghue 1998

[![Body Projections, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/bodyprojections01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/bodyprojections01.jpg)

*click on image for full size still*

### master copy format

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**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/)

**Body Projections** film, stills and other materials © Tony Donoghue 1998