{"id":28659,"date":"2016-11-24T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T10:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=28659"},"modified":"2016-11-24T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T13:35:54","slug":"intimate-animation-andreas-hykade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/intimate-animation-andreas-hykade\/","title":{"rendered":"Intimate Animation: Andreas Hykade (&#8216;Ring of Fire&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/294564123\/download?client_id=02gUJC0hH2ct1EGOcYXQIzRFU91c72Ea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28660 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IAep6-380x380.jpg\" alt=\"iaep6\" width=\"380\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a>This week sees the conclusion of the first season of <strong>Intimate Animation<\/strong>, the podcast in which we explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animations (old and new) that deal with themes of love, relationships and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/vimeo.com\/28613876<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/podcasts\/intimate-animation-6\/\">episode 6<\/a> we meet <a href=\"http:\/\/hykade.de\">Andreas Hykade<\/a>, whose filmography includes the multi-award-winning shorts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbilder.de\/en\/works\/shorts\/therunt.html\"><em>The Runt<\/em><\/a> (2005), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbilder.de\/en\/works\/shorts\/loveandtheft.html\"><em>Love and Theft<\/em><\/a> (2010) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbilder.de\/en\/works\/shorts\/nuggets.html\"><em>Nuggets<\/em><\/a> (2015) as well as the children&#8217;s series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbilder.de\/en\/works\/series\/tom.html\"><em>Tom<\/em><\/a>, produced in association with esteemed German studio <a href=\"http:\/\/filmbilder.de\">Film Bilder<\/a>. Prominently discussed in this episode is the director&#8217;s intense and hallucinatory Western opus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbilder.de\/en\/works\/shorts\/ringoffire.html\"><em>Ring of Fire<\/em><\/a> (2000), whose themes of relationships, sexuality and conflict were drawn from his own life. The film would go on to win Best Animated Short at several major festivals including that year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animationfestival.ca\/index.php?option=com_oiaf&amp;task=showevent&amp;i=1316\">Ottawa International Animation Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tabook (teaser)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/169879976?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also discussed in this episode &#8211; the threat of tightening UK censorship laws on depictions of &#8216;non-conventional&#8217; sexuality, <a href=\"http:\/\/studiopupil.com\/\">Studio Pupil<\/a>&#8216;s delightful short <a href=\"http:\/\/tabook.nl\/\"><em>Tabook<\/em><\/a> and the bizarrely compelling visuals of <a href=\"http:\/\/freelives.net\/?games=genital-jousting\"><em>Genital Jousting<\/em><\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/freelives.net\">Free Lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/skwigly\/id545949409\">Subscribe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/294564123\/download?client_id=02gUJC0hH2ct1EGOcYXQIzRFU91c72Ea\">direct download<\/a> or stream below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F294564123&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=ff5500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/ben-mitchell.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Mitchell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/laura-bethcowley\">Laura-Beth Cowley<br \/>\n<\/a>Produced and edited by Ben Mitchell<br \/>\nMusic by Ben Mitchell<br \/>\nThanks to Miriam Antwerpes and Jette J\u00f6rdis W\u00f6lk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week sees the conclusion of the first season of Intimate Animation, the podcast in which we explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animations (old and new) that deal with themes of love, relationships and sexuality. https:\/\/vimeo.com\/28613876 &nbsp; In episode 6 we meet Andreas Hykade, whose filmography includes the multi-award-winning shorts The Runt (2005), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":28667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[247,755],"tags":[2287,3471,4814,4813,3477,4810,3475,4811,4812,3476,1995],"class_list":["post-28659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interviews","tag-andreas-hykade","tag-film-bilder","tag-free-lives","tag-genital-jousting","tag-love-and-theft","tag-nuggets","tag-ring-of-fire","tag-studio-pupil","tag-tabook","tag-the-runt","tag-tom"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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As a freelancer he has produced work for WildBrain, CBeebies, Channel 4, Shy Guys, Plymptoons, Animortal, Wonky Films, A Productions, Slurpy Studios and Rumpus to name a few. As an independent director he has produced six multi-award-winning short animated films that have been showcased at over 200 international film and animation festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, BFI London Film Festival, ITFS Stuttgart, Encounters, London International Animation Festival, Pictoplasma, London Short Film Festival and Anima Mundi. Alongside his work in animation production he is an active writer and researcher on the industry through such avenues as the leading UK animation resource Skwigly, for which he is Editor in Chief, and his books 'Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films' (2016, second edition published April 2023) and 'Intimate Animation' (2025, co-written with Dr. Laura-Beth Cowley). As an educator he has lectured and tutored at AUB Bournemouth, University of the West of England, University of Gloucestershire and UAL Central Saint Martins. 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