# animate! › Films › Half Life by Matt Hulse › direction & collaboration

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/halflife/biography

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, stop-motion animation, super 8 film, work, stress, isolation, experimental short film, filmmaker, artist

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**Half Life** a film by Matt Hulse

2004, 5 min 45 sec

### Matt Hulse

#### short biography

Matt’s [practice](http://www.lux.org.uk/featured.html) crosses boundaries between film, video, animation, interactivity and installation. In 1994 he completed the Electronic Imaging course at Duncan of Jordanstone and his many prizewinning [films](http://www.idlevice.com/) that have followed were screened in a retrospective at Dresden Filmfest 2002.

His first animate! work was [Hotel Central](https://animate.org.uk/films/hotelcentral/) which shared with Jean Luc Godard the Special Award for Film at the Split Festival of New Cinema 2001. He lives in Edinburgh.

3 November 2004

#### artist statement

The film is a fleeting and intense exploration of large, cold isolated office blocks and lone, alienated workers, stuck in bizarre routines in a nasty grey oppressive city. You may have heard of lone soldiers in the jungle who are still fighting the Vietnam War when it’s been over for 30 years?

Our characters here are similar, like workers carrying on at their desk in desperation after some terrible urban disaster. Meanwhile the computers and offices have evolved and are able to move/change/dance – this is where the animation comes in!

### animate! films by this artist

[Half Life](https://animate.org.uk/films/halflife/)

[Hotel Central](https://animate.org.uk/films/hotelcentral/)

#### artist’s website

[Idlevice](http://www.idlevice.com)

Matt’s own website

**Half Life** film, stills and other materials © Matt Hulse 2004