# animate! › Films › What She Wants by Ruth Lingford › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, computer animation, amiga animation, sexuality, desire, consumerism, capitalism, experimental short film, filmmaker, animator

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**What She Wants** a film by Ruth Lingford

1994, 5 min

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### animate! synopsis

Lust is in the air, everywhere I look around… Sex and shopping, underground thoughts on the underground train, and everywhere capital trying to keep (it) up with desire. Amiga anger about the limits of attraction.

### short synopsis

A woman travelling on the undergrond is bedevilled with images of desire. **What She Wants** wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer – is a film about sex and shopping, the social deployment of sexuality, and capitalism in detumesence

### key credits

**director**
Ruth Lingford

**editor**
James Gormley

**music**
Lol Coxhill

### Ruth Lingford

#### short biography

Ruth graduated in animation from the Royal College of Art. Since then, she has directed multi-award winning films for Channel 4 and is currently tutor on MA animation courses at the Royal College of Art and the National Film & Television School.

She collaborated with Shynola on the music video **An Eye for an Eye** for UNKLE, which won the McLaren Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002.

October 2002

### animate! films by this artist

[The Old Fools](https://animate.org.uk/films/oldfools/)

[What She Wants](https://animate.org.uk/films/whatshewants/)

### a film by Ruth Lingford

### direction

**director**
Ruth Lingford

### image personnel

**editor**
James Gormley

### sound personnel

**music**
Lol Coxhill

### support

**special thanks**
LVA, Dan Arnall, Hackenbacker

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award

© Ruth Lingford 1994

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### technical

#### process summary

Wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer.

### master copy format

**format**
BetaSP

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**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/)

**What She Wants** film, stills and other materials © Ruth Lingford 1994