# animate! › Films › Withdrawal by George Barber › synopses

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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

1997, 3 min 47 sec

### 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‘.

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