Animate Projects is a proud co-sponsor of the Dick Arnall Award 'for rogue vision in the manipulated moving image', presented for the first time at Aurora festival, Norwich, in November 2007. The other sponsors are the Royal College of Art and the National Film and Television School.

The Award is in memory of Dick Arnall, Animate’s first independent production advisor, who through his production company Finetake Limited ran Animate from 2001 until his death in 2007.

Infection Transmission Event/Cloudy November by Paul Abbott.

Jury Chair Edwin Carels explained: 'Infection Transmission Event/Cloudy November is Paul Abott’s debut single screen video work. As a bleak, laboratory experiment it addresses the questions whether or where the omnipresent flow of data turns into information, or on the contrary affects our communication and perception skills like a virus. Working in the vein of Wittgenstein’s and Burrough’s investigations into the enigma of language, it challenges the viewer with its voluntarily unpleasant yet formally intruiging plasticity; and also questions preconceived notions of animation and audio-visual grammar in a larger sense. As such, he is exploring the potential of his medium, as advocated by the late Dick Arnall.'

Origin of the Species by Ben Rivers. Ben Rivers' film was awarded a Special Mention 'for its masterful weaving of form and content, its purposeful balance of doom and hope, and its capacity to deliver somewhere other.' (Michael Robinson).

Edwin Carels
Sukhdev Sandhu
Laure Prouvost
Michael Robinson