A seven-minute animation made in collaboration with composer Hannah Peel and animator Christian Schlaeffer, commissioned by the BFI and BBC4 as part of Animation18. Using audio from interviews recorded around the UK, the film presents a dark tale of love found and lost, woven from fragments of real life broken hearts.
O Hunter Heart was broadcast on BBC4 in December 2018, and is available for a limited time in the UK on BFI Player.
The film premiered at BFI Southbank and has also been selected for screening at: Encounters Festival; Underwire Festival; London Short Film Festival; MUMIA Underground Animation Festival, Deptford Animadocs; Factual Animation Film Fuss; Under the Radar Festival; REX Animation Festival; Lichtspielklub Short Film Festival; Big Muddy Film Festival, Weird Wednesdays Stuttgart; Athens Animfest; Rising of Lusitania AnimaDoc Film Festival, where it won the Student Jury’s Award for Best AnimaDoc; and Southampton Film Week, where it won both the Best Artists Film Award, and the Audience Award.