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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, human zoetrope, live-action performance, birth, death, life cycle, single-take film, filmmaker, animator

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**Round-Up** a film by Mark Simon Hewis

in production

[watch this film ›](https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-life-size-zoetrope-2007-online)

![Round-Up, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/roundup01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

### animate! synopsis

Fairground ride becomes human Zoetrope as we marvel at the joy and pain of the cycle of life, from birth to death and everything inbetween. All displayed within a real giant spinning barrel in three minutes and one shot.

### key credits

**director**
Mark Simon Hewis

### Mark Simon Hewis

#### short biography

Mark Simon Hewis studied Fine Art and Photography before gaining an MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art in 2003. He went on to make the hybrid **The Chihuahua Messiah** with Film London’s Pulse scheme, which won the *Fortean Times* Film of the Year Award and was runner-up for the BBC Filmmaker of the Year Award. He lives in Bristol, and is currently in production of his first live-action fiction short film **God & Dave** for BBC3.

June 2006

#### artist’s website

[Mark Simon Hewis](http://www.hewis.co.uk/)

Mark's website

### a film by Mark Simon Hewis

### direction

**director**
Mark Simon Hewis

© Mark Simon Hewis 2006

[![Round-Up, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/roundup01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/roundup01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Round-Up, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/roundup02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/roundup02.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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[![Round-Up, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/roundup03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/roundup03.jpg)

pre-production concept still

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### technical

#### process summary

Performers, DVCam and *Meteorite* fairground ride.

**Round-Up** film, stills and other materials © Mark Simon Hewis 2006