# animate! › Films › Body Projections by Tony Donoghue

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/bodyprojections/

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)

### a film by Tony Donoghue

### 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?

### key credits

**director**
Tony Donoghue

**editor**
Dave Borthwick

**music**
Peter Brandt

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