# animate! › Films › Postcards of Belief by Lesley Adams › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, painted animation, hand-drawn animation, chronic pain, the body, autobiography, animated documentary, filmmaker

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**Postcards of Belief** a film by Lesley Adams

2001, 5 min

[watch this film ›](https://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/1999_2001/postcards)

![Postcards of Belief, still: 3D LADY](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/postcardsofbelief01.jpg)

3D LADY

### animate! synopsis

When the frame rebels and pain is the only option, the body artist gives up on speech. The picture is breaking up. This is the sound that collapse makes. Drawn out.

### short synopsis

A crash. A jolt a strong harsh jolt. Then numbing oblivion and then the pain from nowhere, pain.

Based on a personal experience the film examines the mental and physical effects of long term pain.

### key credits

**director**
Lesley Adams

### Lesley Adams

### a film by Lesley Adams

### direction

**director**
Lesley Adams

### image personnel

**animator**
Suzanne Deakin

**editor**
Jane Hicks

### sound personnel

**music**
Simon Clark

### support

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England/Channel Four

© Lesley Adams 2001

[![Postcards of Belief, still: 3D LADY](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/postcardsofbelief01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/postcardsofbelief01.jpg)

3D LADY

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[![Postcards of Belief, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/postcardsofbelief02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/postcardsofbelief02.jpg)

MOUTH

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[![Postcards of Belief, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/postcardsofbelief03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/postcardsofbelief03.jpg)

SKULLWIT

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BOULDERN

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WHIPLASH

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WHIPLASH1

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### master copy format

**format**
35mm

**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/)

**Postcards of Belief** film, stills and other materials © Lesley Adams 2001