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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, hand-drawn animation, photocopy animation, rostrum camera, domestic life, nonlinear narrative, filmmaker, artist, painter

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**Rotting Artist** a film by Ann Course & Paul Clark

2002, 3 min 10 sec

[watch this film ›](https://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/2002_2004/rotting_artist/)

![Rotting Artist, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/rottingartist02.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

People try it on in the Croxley bunkers, and when the head of the household shoves his bendy cane brush right up the chimney we would do well to run to the other side of the road and watch it appear out the top for the lucky sight of it.

### key credits

**director**
Ann Course
Paul Clark

### Ann Course

#### biography

Ann Course was born in 1965, in Watford. Ann and her partner Paul each studied at the Royal College of Art. They live and work in London, Ann as a practising artist and Paul as a painter, with a rapidly-expanding catalogue of their darkly amusing animated films.

Their [work](http://www.lux.org.uk/featured.html) has been widely exhibited and screened.

#### filmography

**Ann(i)mated** 1993, 3‘, sound, video

**Prince** 1999, 1’ 10“, sound, video

**Me** 1999, silent, video

**Untitled (Night Beast)**, 1999, 1‘, sound, video

**Waitin for Waste**, 2000, 3‘, sound, video

**The Artist** 2000, 3‘, sound, video

**Mother** 2000, 1‘, sound, video

**Recruitment Video** 2000, 2’ 30“, sound, video

**Shit Belt** 2000, 3’ 10“, sound, video

**Rotting Artist** 2002, 3’ 10“, sound, video

**Black Magic** 2002, 2‘, sound, video

### Paul Clark

#### short biography

Paul Clark was born in Ilford, in 1965. He studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic, and then at the Royal College of Art. He lives in London with his partner Ann Course and is a practising painter.

### a film by Ann Course & Paul Clark

### direction

**director**
Ann Course
Paul Clark

### production personnel

**line producer**
Steve Connolly

### support

**primary funding**
An animate! production through Finetake for the Arts Council of England and Channel 4

© Ann Course & Paul Clark 2002

[![Rotting Artist, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/rottingartist01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/rottingartist01.jpg)

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[![Rotting Artist, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/rottingartist02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/rottingartist02.jpg)

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[![Rotting Artist, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/rottingartist03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/rottingartist03.jpg)

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[![Rotting Artist, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/rottingartist04.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/rottingartist04.jpg)

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[![Rotting Artist, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/rottingartist05.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/rottingartist05.jpg)

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[![Rotting Artist, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/rottingartist06.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/rottingartist06.jpg)

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### technical

#### process summary

A non-linear story using line drawings and photocopies shot ‘live’ under a rostrum camera in response to the music soundtrack.

### master copy format

**format**
DigiBeta

**colour or black & white**
black & white

### video distribution format

**video format**
DigiBeta

**screen aspect ratio**
16:9

**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/)

**Rotting Artist** film, stills and other materials © Ann Course & Paul Clark 2002