Animator Mandy McIntosh
Animation Assistant Ronald Menzies
Writer Mandy McIntosh
Composer Zeena Parkins

Voices Mandy McIntosh, Paula McIntosh, Neil McIntosh

Musicians:
Harps Zeena Parkins
Keyboards Jim Pugilese
Percussion Mat Welsch
Bagpipes David Watson
Turntables Christian Marclay

Oompie ka Doompie was realised with support from Scottish Screen Lottery Fund and Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund. With additional development funding from the Glasgow Film Office.

With thanks to Julia Caithness for Scottish Screen

The hybrid animated journey of a Scottish family leaving behind a grim 1970s Glasgow to experience a new life in Johannesburg during apartheid. The film explores segregation through an account of the relationship between the family and the black woman who cared for two immigrant girls while their parents worked. It is a document of her enduring impact on the family.

Strata 3D, Flash and hand-drawn elements scanned into Photoshop then animated in stop-frame or through motion objects.

Zeena Parkins, multi-instrumentalist, composer, improvisor, well-known as a pioneer of the electric harp, has also extended the language of the acoustic harp with the inventive use of unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of digital and analog processing.

She has blurred boundaries between improvised and composed, acoustic and electric, digital and analog, and processed and concrete sounds to create many of her pieces. She achieves this engagement of contrasts by using instrument blending and morphing, the recombination of cut-up sounds to form odd and breathtaking soundscapes, and scoring and formal constructions derived from extra-musical sources.

Zeena Parkins is a sought after collaborator who has performed with Jim O'Rourke, Nels Cline, Lee Renaldo, Kaffe Matthews, and has toured and recorded with Bjork.