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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, flash animation, digital drawing, digital compositing, imagination, escapism, memory, experimental short film, filmmaker, animation artist

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**Purple Grey** a film by Sebastian Buerkner

[Sebastian Buerkner](http://sebastianbuerkner.com/)

2006, 7 min 50 sec

[watch this film ›](https://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/2005_06/purple_grey)

![Purple Grey, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/purplegrey01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

### animate! synopsis

A vivid imagination can be a seductive but debilitating distraction from life. Twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks offer an enticing escape, and even a mundane room may be made more bearable by mentally morphing space and time. But the real world continues, demanding, undermining, overwhelming…

Elaborate Flash drawn animation subtly enhanced in compositing programs.

### key credits

**director**
Sebastian Buerkner

### Sebastian Buerkner

#### short biography

Sebastian studied painting in Germany then moved to London to complete his fine art education with an MA at Chelsea College in 2002, where he was awarded a Fellowship residency the following year. His work has been exhibited in several group and solo shows internationally. Since 2004 his art practice has shifted exclusively to animation, with his first solo show *The Unnamable* at the Lounge gallery in April 2006. Sebastian is also a projectionist at the Rio Cinema, London.

September 2006

#### artist’s website

[Sebastian Buerkner](http://www.sebastianbuerkner.com)

Sebastian’s website

### a film by Sebastian Buerkner

### direction

**director**
Sebastian Buerkner

© Sebastian Buerkner 2006

[![Purple Grey, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/purplegrey01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/purplegrey01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Purple Grey, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/purplegrey02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/purplegrey02.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Purple Grey, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/purplegrey03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/purplegrey03.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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### technical

#### process summary

Elaborate Flash drawn animation subtly enhanced in compositing programs.

### master copy format

**format**
DigiBeta

**colour or black & white**
colour

### 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/)

### pre-history

#### working title (initially known as)

Fact

**Purple Grey** film, stills and other materials © Sebastian Buerkner 2006