# animate! › Films › Miles from Anywhere by Gary Carpenter › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, frame-by-frame photography, landscape, texture, perception, experimental short film, filmmaker, comedy writer

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**Miles from Anywhere** a film by Gary Carpenter

1997, 4 min 20 sec

![Miles from Anywhere, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/milesfromanywhere01.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

On the surface, an exploration of environment and landscape. Hand-held photography close up on textures in a detailed examination of the real. From stone to sky, material to air, framing is all and holds the answers.

### short synopsis

An exploration of surface and environment, releasing latent energies from inanimate objects, **Miles from Anywhere** employs hand-held, frame-by-frame filming.

### key credits

**director**
Gary Carpenter

**sound designer**
Will Hodge
Jon Muspratt

### Gary Carpenter

#### artist’s website

[King Nutter](https://web.archive.org/web/20070101002603/http://www.kingnutter.com/)

Gary's website, specialising in comedy and weird eBay auctions.

### a film by Gary Carpenter

### direction

**director**
Gary Carpenter

### sound personnel

**sound designer**
Will Hodge
Jon Muspratt

### support

**thanks**
Dan Smith, Luis Cook, Timo Arnall

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

© Gary Carpenter 1997

[![Miles from Anywhere, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/milesfromanywhere01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/milesfromanywhere01.jpg)

*click on image for full size still*

### technical

#### process summary

Hand-held, frame-by-frame filming.

### 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/)

**Miles from Anywhere** film, stills and other materials © Gary Carpenter 1997