# animate! › Films › Rotting Artist by Ann Course & Paul Clark › direction & collaboration

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/rottingartist/biography

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

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Archive status: restored in 2026; historical calls, deadlines and services are closed.

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

2002, 3 min 10 sec

### 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.

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