# animate! › Films › The Old Fools by Ruth Lingford › direction & collaboration

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, hand-drawn animation, animated typography, live action and animation, ageing, death, parents, poetry film, filmmaker, animator

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**The Old Fools** a film by Ruth Lingford

2002, 5 min 37 sec

### Ruth Lingford

#### short biography

Ruth graduated in animation from the Royal College of Art. Since then, she has directed multi-award winning films for Channel 4 and is currently tutor on MA animation courses at the Royal College of Art and the National Film & Television School.

She collaborated with Shynola on the music video **An Eye for an Eye** for UNKLE, which won the McLaren Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002.

October 2002

### animate! films by this artist

[The Old Fools](https://animate.org.uk/films/oldfools/)

[What She Wants](https://animate.org.uk/films/whatshewants/)

**The Old Fools** film, stills and other materials © Ruth Lingford 2002