# animate! › Films › Withdrawal by George Barber › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, manipulated live action, video looping, family, memory, disappearance, experimental short film, filmmaker, video artist

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**Withdrawal** a film by George Barber

[George Barber](http://www.georgebarber.net)

1997, 3 min 47 sec

![Withdrawal, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/withdrawal01.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do. Who knows where the families go?

### short synopsis

In the countryside, on a sunny day a family group repeatedly walk towards the camera. The ‘home-movie’ is looped and the footage is digitally manipulated so that each time they pass, the family members steadily disappear, the landscape also appearing to ‘withdraw‘.

### key credits

**director**
George Barber

**cgi animator**
Craig Zeuroni

### George Barber

#### short biography

A pioneer of video art, once described by Art Monthly as “the Henry Ford of independent video art“, George Barber quickly gained an international reputation with ‘Scratch Video‘, an original fast-cutting, multi-layered rhythmic genre of work.

Michael Maziere

30 September 2004

### a film by George Barber

### direction

**director**
George Barber

### script

**writer**
George Barber

### image personnel

**cgi animator**
Craig Zeuroni

### support

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

© George Barber 1997

[![Withdrawal, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/withdrawal01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/withdrawal01.jpg)

*click on image for full size still*

### master copy format

**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/)

**Withdrawal** film, stills and other materials © George Barber 1997