Life is a mess.  It makes your head spin and before you know it it’s over.  A very short film about time, life and death. Inspired by the poem Vertigo by Durs Grünbein.

Everything Turns is inspired by Durs Grünbein’s poem Vertigo, which deals with the role of the individual within time and space, the shortness and messiness of human existence, and the apparent inability of the individual to significantly grow and change within a lifetime. I decided to contrast the heaviness of the subject with the lightness of morphing drawings, and a simplified drawing style. Using only a minute for the film, the aim was to amplify the sense of urgency of our existence. By framing such a deep, existential subject in this fast and fluid, light and sometimes almost comical way, I tried to create a film which is at once serious and untroubled, heavy and delicate, disheartening and uplifting. 

Kinofilm Manchester ‘06,
EMERGEANDSEE screening at Exground Filmfest 18, Wiesbaden, Germany, November 2005
Media Art Friesland Festival, Holland, 16 September - 2 October 2005
Filmlichter Film Festival, Detmold, Germany, 16-18 September 2005
Take 291, 291 Gallery, London, UK, 15 September 2005
Super Shorts Film Festival, London, 5-8 September 2005 (+UK tour)
EMERGEANDSEE at Curzon Cinema, Soho, London, 7 July and 5 Oct 2005
Urban Outfitters, Kensington High Street, London, 17 June - 15 July 2005
- Cracow Film Festival, Cracow, Poland, 2005
- Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2004
- European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 2005
- Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2004
- Backup Festival, Weimar, Germany, 2004
- ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, 2004
- EMERGEANDSEE, Lucerne, 2004; and Budapest, 2005 
- China Int'l Cartoon and Digital Arts Festival, Changzhou, China, 2004
- I Castelli Animati Film Festival, Genzano di Roma, Italy, 2004
- E-Magiciens, Valenciennes, France, 2004
- Being in Motion, 291 Gallery, London, 2005
- Zlinsky Pes, Film Festival Zlin, Zlin, Czech Republic, 2005
- Eat Our Shorts, National Film Theatre, London, 2004
- Clone Digital Film Festival, Hämeenllinna, Finland, 2004 
- International Art Film Festival, Simrishamn, Sweden, 2004
- ArtExpo Madrid 2004, Madrid, 2004
- 34 Minutes of Your Time, Hat On Wall, London, 2004
- Projektor, Kingsgate Gallery, London, 2004
- Selected for EMERGEANDSEE DVD release "01 | 05 Circular Reality".
- Selected for "Collection of Excellent Works from the 2004 China International Cartoon and Digital Arts Festival" DVD and for TV screenings in China.
- Promoted by the British Council and Britfilms.com.