Film Programme
AN EYEFUL OF SOUND
documentary , Fri, 12:30
United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, 2010, 10
Director: Samantha Moore
Producer: Joshka Wessels
Animation: Samantha Moore, Omid Ghanat-Abady, Sturat Messinger, Emily Mantell
Composer: Adam Goddard
Editor: Samantha Moore
Synopsis: 'I don't know if you've ever heard a goat eating carrots? It's almost too much, it's so lovely' An Eyeful of Sound conjures up the fascinating visually complex internal world of audio-visual synaesthesia, where senses make unique connections the rest of us don't experience. In this Wellcome Trust funded project award winning animated documentary maker Samantha Moore has worked with Dr Jamie Ward, leading researcher into synaesthesia, and a group of people with synaesthesia to portray an accurate and insightful portrait of what it is like to experience the condition. Synaesthesia is discussed, argued over, dissected and celebrated in this beautifully sensitive animated documentary.
Director: Samantha Moore
Samantha Moore is an independent film maker who makes animated documentaries. She has just finished a new film "An Eyeful of Sound" for The Wellcome Trust, about synaesthesia. This year she is also a participant in the Berlinale Talent Campus 2010. Together with producer Joshka Wessels Sam's most recent film was for the Screen West Midlands/UK Film Council Digital Shorts scheme called "The Beloved Ones" about children affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda. It has been screened internationally, and at Animafest, Zagreb 2008 it received a special mention from the grand jury "for it. In 2006 she won a Wellcome Trust 'sciart' research and development award, which involved working with Dr Jamie Ward from UCL Psychology Department and members of the New London Orchestra on a project about the condition of synaesthesia. In 2004 she made a short film commissioned by animate! for Channel 4 and Arts Council England called 'doubled up', and before that she made 'Success with Sweet Peas' about competitive sweet pea growers in Shropshire. Both films are distributed by Big Film Shorts (USA) and Lux (UK). Sam is senior lecturer in animation at the University of Wolverhampton and a member of CADRE. She is based in Shropshire.