Ruth Lingford
Ruth Lingford | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 1953 (age 71) |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | BA 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
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.
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 certain sequence. Again, she returned to Deluxe Paint to draw preliminary images which were finished by Yadin[8]. Pleasures of War, of the same year, moved against "the 'plastic' gloss-orientation of much computer-generated imagery"[9].
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.
Current Filmography
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Series Title | Episode Title | Season | Episode | Release Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animation Nation | Visions of Childhood | 1 | 3 | 2005 | ||
References
- ^ a b c d Robinson, Chris. "Ruth Lingford: Old Halo Coffins Layered." Unsung Heroes of Animation. Eastleigh, UK : John Libbey, 2005. 254-264. Print.
- ^ "animafest.hr". www.animafest.hr. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ^ "Person - Holland Animation Film Festival - HAFF". www.haff.nl. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ^ "International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand". www.clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ^ "International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand". www.clermont-filmfest.com. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ^ Pummel, Simon. "Thunder Under Oppresion." Animating the Unconscious: Desire, Sexuality, and Animation. Ed. Pilling, Jayne. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012. 71-72. Print.
- ^ Wells, Paul. "The Language of Animation." Introduction to Film Studies. Ed. Nelmes, Jill. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. 254. Print.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wells, Paul. Animation: Genre and Autorship. London ; New York : Wallflower, 2002. 29. 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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