Simon Pummell
Blinded by Light, Simon Pummell
Films
Biography
His animated and special FX films for television, MTV idents, and promos for rock band Queen, have won numerous international awards. In 2003 he wrote and directed Bodysong, a cross-media project combining feature film and website, using found footage taken from across the last 100 years of cinema to depict an archetypal life story. The soundtrack was composed by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. The project received critical acclaim and won a BAFTA; a British Independent Film Award; and an Ivor Novello Awards nomination, among other awards.
In 2005/6 he received a Dream Time Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Harvard University, and Head of Media Communications Department at Webster University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Simon is currently working on a screenplay for the UK Film Council, and, with funding from the UK’s Wellcome Trust Sciart fund, developing a feature documentary about Daniel Paul Schreber - author of the most famous autobiography written by a psychotic patient.
Filmography
Bodysong, 2003
Stop for a Minute, 2001
Blinded by Light, 2000
Blinded by Light (Interactive version in A Passionate Obsession, Barbican Gallery), 2000
Ray Gun Fun, 1998
Heartache, 1996
Evolution, 1996
Butchers Hook, 1996
Digital Baby, 1995
Rose Red, 1994
Temptation of Sainthood, 1993
Cupid, 1992
Stain, 1992
Secret Joy of Falling Angels, 1992
Surface Tension, 1986
Prize
Blinded by Light:
Best International Video, Visions Festival, Montreal.