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

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

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

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

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

### a film by Ann Course & Paul Clark

### 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

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