{"id":30185,"date":"2017-03-27T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T11:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=30185"},"modified":"2019-08-09T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:40:30","slug":"intimate-animation-kim-noce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/intimate-animation-kim-noce\/","title":{"rendered":"Intimate Animation: Kim Noce (\u2018Love in Idleness\u2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/skwigly\/intimate-animation-2-02\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30186 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IAs2e2-380x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a>Continuing the second season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?s=intimate+animation\">Intimate Animation<\/a> &#8211; the Skwigly podcast in which we explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality &#8211; we welcome UK-based Italian artist\/filmmaker Kim Noce of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mewlab.com\/\">Mew Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since graduating from the NFTS with her 2005 animated documentary short <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimnoce.com\/projects\/after\/\">After<\/a><\/em>, Kim has gone on to direct eight independent shorts, seven commissioned films for the BBC, C4 and the BFI among others, as well as ten animation installations, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/mewlab\/\"><em>The Evening Her Mind Jumped Out of Her Head<\/em><\/a> for\u00a0Watford Borough Council.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Love in idleness&quot; Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/163852926?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>Recently Kim was among several directors commissioned to direct <a href=\"https:\/\/loveinidlenessfilm.wordpress.com\/\"><em>Love in Idleness<\/em><\/a> for the Shakespeare400 <a href=\"http:\/\/flamin.filmlondon.org.uk\/shakespeare\">Still Shakespeare<\/a> series. The films took inspiration from original research by Sally Barnden and were produced in partnership with London Shakespeare Centre, Film Club at Th1ng and Sherbet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Love in Idleness<\/em> is a short animated film exploring the fleeting delusional love relationship between Titania and Bottom.The film focuses on the transformation and transfiguration of the two characters in the act of a frantic lovemaking. Scratchy animated lines, morphed body parts, fragments of flesh intersect and crash together into the crude rhythmical act performed by the deluded donkey and the tricked woman. There is no story, no time and no roles: only raw emotions and sensations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/skwigly\/id545949409\">Subscribe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/skwigly\/intimate-animation-2-02\">direct download<\/a> or stream below:<\/p>\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%2F314674547&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=ff5500\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Learn more about the work of Mew Lab at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mewlab.com\/\">mewlab.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/ben-mitchell.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Mitchell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/laura-bethcowley\">Laura-Beth Cowley<\/a><br \/>\nProduced and edited by Ben Mitchell<br \/>\nMusic by Ben Mitchell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the second season of Intimate Animation &#8211; the Skwigly podcast in which we explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality &#8211; we welcome UK-based Italian artist\/filmmaker Kim Noce of Mew Lab. 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