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== Animation Work ==
== Animation Work ==


=== Early work ===
Lingford began her work in animation when she made ''Baggage'' and ''Crumble'' (both 1992) as part of her [[Master of Arts|MA]]<ref name=":0">Robinson, Chris. "Ruth Lingford: Old Halo Coffins Layered." ''Unsung Heroes of Animation''. Eastleigh, UK : John Libbey, 2005. 254-264. Print.</ref>. ''Baggage'' and ''Crumble'' circulated in some film festivals, after their debut at the Royal College of Art's graduation show, including the [[Animafest Zagreb|Animefest Zagred]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.animafest.hr/en/2014/film/read_all/baggage|title=animafest.hr|website=www.animafest.hr|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref>, [[:nl:Holland_Animation_Film_Festival|Holland Animation Film Festival]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haff.nl/en/persons/ruth-lingford?film=baggage|title=Person - Holland Animation Film Festival - HAFF|website=www.haff.nl|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> and the [[Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?m=131&c=3&id_film=100003470&o=104|title=International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand|website=www.clermont-filmfest.com|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?m=130&c=3&id_film=100002926&o=|title=International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand|website=www.clermont-filmfest.com|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref>. After their limited festival run, and struggles to find stability, Lingford made ''What She Wants'' (1994) with funding of a grant from the Animate! project<ref name=":0" /> (co-founded by [[imdbname:0036002|Dick Arnall]] for the [[Arts Council of England]]/[[Channel 4]])<ref>Pummel, Simon. "Thunder Under Oppresion." ''Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation.'' Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012. 71-72. Print.</ref>. For ''What She Wants'', Lingford resorted to use her [[Amiga|Amiga 1500]] computer – having no access to animation equipments –, doing individual frames on [[Deluxe Paint]]. ''What She Wants''<nowiki/>'s individual images were saved across approximately 20 [[Floppy disk|Floppy disks]].
Lingford began her work in animation when she made ''Baggage'' and ''Crumble'' (both 1992) as part of her [[Master of Arts|MA]]<ref name=":0">Robinson, Chris. "Ruth Lingford: Old Halo Coffins Layered." ''Unsung Heroes of Animation''. Eastleigh, UK : John Libbey, 2005. 254-264. Print.</ref>. ''Baggage'' and ''Crumble'' circulated in some film festivals, after their debut at the Royal College of Art's graduation show, including the [[Animafest Zagreb|Animefest Zagred]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.animafest.hr/en/2014/film/read_all/baggage|title=animafest.hr|website=www.animafest.hr|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref>, [[:nl:Holland_Animation_Film_Festival|Holland Animation Film Festival]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haff.nl/en/persons/ruth-lingford?film=baggage|title=Person - Holland Animation Film Festival - HAFF|website=www.haff.nl|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> and the [[Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?m=131&c=3&id_film=100003470&o=104|title=International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand|website=www.clermont-filmfest.com|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?m=130&c=3&id_film=100002926&o=|title=International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand|website=www.clermont-filmfest.com|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref>. After their limited festival run, and struggles to find stability, Lingford made ''What She Wants'' (1994) with funding of a grant from the Animate! project<ref name=":0" /> (co-founded by [[imdbname:0036002|Dick Arnall]] for the [[Arts Council of England]]/[[Channel 4]])<ref>Pummel, Simon. "Thunder Under Oppresion." ''Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation.'' Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012. 71-72. Print.</ref>. For ''What She Wants'', Lingford resorted to use her [[Amiga|Amiga 1500]] computer – having no access to animation equipments –, doing individual frames on [[Deluxe Paint]]. ''What She Wants''<nowiki/>'s individual images were saved across approximately 20 [[Floppy disk|Floppy disks]].


=== ''Death and the Mother'' and other acclaimed works ===
On her next project, she was invited at the [[Museum of the Moving Image (London)|Museum of the Moving Image]] for an unusual [[Artist-in-residence|residency]]. Developing a second commission for [[Channel 4]], ''Death and the Mother'' (1997), Lingford returned again to her unusual methods of [[computer animation]]<ref>Wells, Paul. "The Language of Animation." ''Introduction to Film Studies.'' Ed. Nelmes, Jill. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. 254. Print.</ref>. The creative process, however, would take place in full view of the people navigating through the museum : Lingford would be working in a glass room<ref name=":0" />. The film drew inspiration from [[Woodcut|woodcut]] aesthetics, and catapulted Lingford on the international animation scene. Upon completion, in 1997, ''Death and the Mother'' won many awards, including one at [[Annecy International Animated Film Festival]] of the same year<ref name=":0" />. The surface, content and reputation of ''Death and the Mother'' drew attention on Lingford from Orly Yadin and Sylvie Bringas. She was asked to collaborate on their project, ''Silence'' (1998), and Lingford worked with [http://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/tim-webb/ Tim Webb] on the animation of ''Silence''<nowiki/>'s sequence. Again, she returned to Deluxe Paint to draw preliminary images which were finished by Yadin<ref>Lingford, Ruth and Tim Webb. "''Silence'': The Role of the Animators." ''Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television since 1993.'' Eds. Haggith, Toby and Joanna Newman. London : Wallflower, 2005. 173-182. Print.</ref>. Overall, the visual she partly built won ''Silence'' several important awards including : the Gold Hugo for Animation Short at the 1998 [[Chicago International Film Festival]] and the Grand Prix of the 1999 [[Odense International Film Festival|Odense Film Festival]]. Lingford's following project, ''Pleasures of War'', of the same year, moved against "the 'plastic' gloss-orientation of much computer-generated imagery"<ref>Wells, Paul. ''Animation: Genre and Autorship.'' London ; New York : Wallflower, 2002. 29. Print.</ref>. Perhaps due to the success of ''Silence'', she approached novelist and [[Christian theology|Christian theologian]] [[Sara Maitland]], who Lingford remembered for her short story "The Swallow and the Nightingale"<ref>N.a. "Ruth Lingford: The Pleasures of War - Interview." ''Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation.'' Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012. 77-78. Print.</ref> (from her ''Far North and Other Dark Tales'' collection)''. Pleasures of War'' was scripted by Maitland, who also collaborated on the general design of the work, based on the deuterocanonical [[Book of Judith]] – a story in which two women propose sexual favours to protect their city from besiegers.
On her next project, she was invited at the [[Museum of the Moving Image (London)|Museum of the Moving Image]] for an unusual [[Artist-in-residence|residency]]. Developing a second commission for [[Channel 4]], ''Death and the Mother'' (1997), Lingford returned again to her unusual methods of [[computer animation]]<ref>Wells, Paul. "The Language of Animation." ''Introduction to Film Studies.'' Ed. Nelmes, Jill. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. 254. Print.</ref>. The creative process, however, would take place in full view of the people navigating through the museum : Lingford would be working in a glass room<ref name=":0" />. The film drew inspiration from [[Woodcut|woodcut]] aesthetics, and catapulted Lingford on the international animation scene. Upon completion, in 1997, ''Death and the Mother'' won many awards, including one at [[Annecy International Animated Film Festival]] of the same year<ref name=":0" />. The surface, content and reputation of ''Death and the Mother'' drew attention on Lingford from Orly Yadin and Sylvie Bringas. She was asked to collaborate on their project, ''Silence'' (1998), and Lingford worked with [http://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/tim-webb/ Tim Webb] on the animation of ''Silence''<nowiki/>'s sequence. Again, she returned to Deluxe Paint to draw preliminary images which were finished by Yadin<ref>Lingford, Ruth and Tim Webb. "''Silence'': The Role of the Animators." ''Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television since 1993.'' Eds. Haggith, Toby and Joanna Newman. London : Wallflower, 2005. 173-182. Print.</ref>. Overall, the visual she partly built won ''Silence'' several important awards including : the Gold Hugo for Animation Short at the 1998 [[Chicago International Film Festival]] and the Grand Prix of the 1999 [[Odense International Film Festival|Odense Film Festival]]. Lingford's following project, ''Pleasures of War'', of the same year, moved against "the 'plastic' gloss-orientation of much computer-generated imagery"<ref>Wells, Paul. ''Animation: Genre and Autorship.'' London ; New York : Wallflower, 2002. 29. Print.</ref>. Perhaps due to the success of ''Silence'', she approached novelist and [[Christian theology|Christian theologian]] [[Sara Maitland]], who Lingford remembered for her short story "The Swallow and the Nightingale"<ref>N.a. "Ruth Lingford: The Pleasures of War - Interview." ''Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation.'' Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012. 77-78. Print.</ref> (from her ''Far North and Other Dark Tales'' collection)''. Pleasures of War'' was scripted by Maitland, who also collaborated on the general design of the work, based on the deuterocanonical [[Book of Judith]] – a story in which two women propose sexual favours to protect their city from besiegers.


=== From the 2000s onward ===

=== Current whereabouts ===
As of recently, Lingford as been part of the band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?, for which she has animated some songs and done [[Backup band|back vocalist work]].
As of recently, Lingford as been part of the band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?, for which she has animated some songs and done [[Backup band|back vocalist work]].


She has worked with the [[Royal College of Art|RCA]], [[National Film and Television School|NFTS]], [http://www.animateprojects.org/ Animate Projects] and [[Shynola]] over the course of her [[Animation]] career.
She has worked with the [[Royal College of Art|RCA]], [[National Film and Television School|NFTS]], [http://www.animateprojects.org/ Animate Projects] and [[Shynola]] over the course of her [[Animation]] career.


=== Current Filmography ===
== Filmography ==
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Ruth Lingford
BornMay 1953 (age 71)
London, England
NationalityEnglish
EducationBA in Fine Arts and Art History at Middlesex Polytechnic, MA at the Royal College of Art
Occupation(s)Animator, Senior lecturer, Occupational therapist (Former)

Ruth Lingford is an Independent animator. Since 2005, she has held a position as Faculty member in the Visual and Environmental Studies at the Harvard University, where she is Senior lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Before investing herself in Animation, she was an Occupational therapist working with the elders and people suffering from mental disorders. Lingford completed a BA in Fine Arts and Art History at the Middlesex Polytechnic (Middlesex University) from 1987 to 1990 and a MA at the Royal College of Art until 1992.

Animation Work

Early work

Lingford began her work in animation when she made Baggage and Crumble (both 1992) as part of her MA[1]. Baggage and Crumble circulated in some film festivals, after their debut at the Royal College of Art's graduation show, including the Animefest Zagred[2], Holland Animation Film Festival[3] and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival[4][5]. After their limited festival run, and struggles to find stability, Lingford made What She Wants (1994) with funding of a grant from the Animate! project[1] (co-founded by Dick Arnall for the Arts Council of England/Channel 4)[6]. For What She Wants, Lingford resorted to use her Amiga 1500 computer – having no access to animation equipments –, doing individual frames on Deluxe Paint. What She Wants's individual images were saved across approximately 20 Floppy disks.

Death and the Mother and other acclaimed works

On her next project, she was invited at the Museum of the Moving Image for an unusual residency. Developing a second commission for Channel 4, Death and the Mother (1997), Lingford returned again to her unusual methods of computer animation[7]. The creative process, however, would take place in full view of the people navigating through the museum : Lingford would be working in a glass room[1]. The film drew inspiration from woodcut aesthetics, and catapulted Lingford on the international animation scene. Upon completion, in 1997, Death and the Mother won many awards, including one at Annecy International Animated Film Festival of the same year[1]. The surface, content and reputation of Death and the Mother drew attention on Lingford from Orly Yadin and Sylvie Bringas. She was asked to collaborate on their project, Silence (1998), and Lingford worked with Tim Webb on the animation of Silence's sequence. Again, she returned to Deluxe Paint to draw preliminary images which were finished by Yadin[8]. Overall, the visual she partly built won Silence several important awards including : the Gold Hugo for Animation Short at the 1998 Chicago International Film Festival and the Grand Prix of the 1999 Odense Film Festival. Lingford's following project, Pleasures of War, of the same year, moved against "the 'plastic' gloss-orientation of much computer-generated imagery"[9]. Perhaps due to the success of Silence, she approached novelist and Christian theologian Sara Maitland, who Lingford remembered for her short story "The Swallow and the Nightingale"[10] (from her Far North and Other Dark Tales collection). Pleasures of War was scripted by Maitland, who also collaborated on the general design of the work, based on the deuterocanonical Book of Judith – a story in which two women propose sexual favours to protect their city from besiegers.

From the 2000s onward

Current whereabouts

As of recently, Lingford as been part of the band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?, for which she has animated some songs and done back vocalist work.

She has worked with the RCA, NFTS, Animate Projects and Shynola over the course of her Animation career.

Filmography

As Director
Title Release Date Based On Runtime
Little Deaths 2010 11:58
Eye for an Eye 2005 6:30
The Old Fools 2002 The Old Fools by Philip Larkin 5:40
Pleasures of War 1998 Book of Judith 11:00
Death and the Mother 1997 The Story of a Mother 10:37
What She Wants 1994 5:00
Crumble 1992 4:00
Baggage 1992 4:17
Contributions
Title Release Date Directed by Role
We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân 2010 Anne Makepeace Animator
Secrecy 2008 Peter Galison, Robb Moss Animator
Silence 1998 Orly Yadin, Sylvie Bringas Animator
Series Title Episode Title Season Episode Release Date Directed by Role
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or the Roly-Poly Pudding 1 2 1993 Mike Stuart, Dianne Jackson Rendering artist
Appeared In
Series Title Episode Title Season Episode Release Date
Animation Nation Visions of Childhood 1 3 2005

References

  1. ^ a b c d Robinson, Chris. "Ruth Lingford: Old Halo Coffins Layered." Unsung Heroes of Animation. Eastleigh, UK : John Libbey, 2005. 254-264. Print.
  2. ^ "animafest.hr". www.animafest.hr. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  3. ^ "Person - Holland Animation Film Festival - HAFF". www.haff.nl. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  4. ^ "International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand". www.clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  5. ^ "International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand". www.clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  6. ^ Pummel, Simon. "Thunder Under Oppresion." Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012. 71-72. Print.
  7. ^ Wells, Paul. "The Language of Animation." Introduction to Film Studies. Ed. Nelmes, Jill. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. 254. Print.
  8. ^ Lingford, Ruth and Tim Webb. "Silence: The Role of the Animators." Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television since 1993. Eds. Haggith, Toby and Joanna Newman. London : Wallflower, 2005. 173-182. Print.
  9. ^ Wells, Paul. Animation: Genre and Autorship. London ; New York : Wallflower, 2002. 29. Print.
  10. ^ N.a. "Ruth Lingford: The Pleasures of War - Interview." Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012. 77-78. Print.

(Old) Sources

Honess Roe, Annabelle. Animated Documentary. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. Palgrave Connect. Web.

Kennedy, Sarah Ann. "Has Feminism failed the British Animation Industry?" Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. March 31 – April 3, 2010. Renaissance Grand Hotel. St. Louis, MO, USA. (Unpublished.) University of Center Lancashire. Web.

Lingford, Ruth. "Revealing Men: The Y Factor." Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press. 2012.

Mitchell, Ben. "Interview: The Films of Ruth Lingform." Skwigly. 2011. Web.

Sabbadani, Andrea. "Contributors." Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema. Hove ; New York ; Routledge. 2007.

Pilling, Jayne. "Ruth Lingford: The Pleasures of War - Interview." Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press. 2012.

Pummel, Simon. "Truth Under Impression: The Film of Ruth Lingford." Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press. 2012.

N.a. "Ruth Lingford." Animate Projects. Web.

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