Animation Grand Prix 2001

From another one of my video tapes almost a whole evening of short programmes on animation.

[These programmes are] from a four part late night series called 'Animation Grand Prix' from 2001. Shown on Channel 4 (UK) each weeks segment would be dedicated to a particular country showing short films and features along with non-country specific programmes. Regrettably I only taped the Japanese night, most of which I'm uploading here. Programmes shown on the night that I won't be uploading included a specially commissioned series by Adam and Joe (which has already been uploaded) and the premiere of anime Blood: The Last Vampire (2000).

The evening began with part one of Adam and Joes series on animation and then the first in a series of programmes where 5 animators had 3 days to make a one minute film (which I may upload later).



Actress Jessica Stevenson (Spaced) talks about some of her favourite animations including Top Cat (1961), Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin (aka Street Fight) (1975) and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell (1995).



A short film on artist Mumble Boy.



A short CG animation by Satoshi Tomioka.



A short film on making 'anime music videos' (AMV) from back in the day when everything was sourced from good ol' VHS.



Another short from Satoshi Tomioka.



A short film looking at lesbian characters in anime.

After this came the premiere of Blood: The Last Vampire and a few more shorts which I didn't keep in the end. One of which I remember being a short that cut footage from Ninja Scroll with a group of monks having an orgy, very odd.