# animate! › Films › Half Life by Matt Hulse

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

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

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

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**Half Life** a film by Matt Hulse

2004, 5 min 45 sec

![Half Life, still: Mr Marker screams pointlessly in frustration](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/halflife10.jpg)

Mr Marker screams pointlessly in frustration

### a film by Matt Hulse

### animate! synopsis

A neurotic stop-frame analysis of the daily torture of the desk-bound being, freeze-frame tensions disrupting the film’s surface and material.

### key credits

**director**
Matt Hulse

**half lives**
Fiona Staniland
Sarah Beauvoisin
Mark Bishop
Sam Dore
Nick Currey

**music**
Daniel Padden

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