films

"I found a video camera in my house and since then I spend hours drawing animation films. You can draw 350 pictures and you end up with a 1min30s really short film...
I projected some of them at the CubeCinema, for the Bluescreen night. And each time someone tells me they are "lovely", or "cute", it makes me want to make a new one...and I spent two more months with my drawing table. Here are some samples of them: "

You can watch "Where were you?" and download it here

Extract from "TALKING ABOUT MUSIC", Frànçois, august2004.

" Get Good " + " Winter dam "
2 short animation films by frànçois and Rozi Plain. (stitchdvd01/mop010). (5£ on paypal, Europe only, p+p included).

frànçois' low-budget animation films are painstakingly hand crafted visual vignettes made from materials he found around the grand old house he moved into in Bristol in 2003: a cheap video camera, some ink and paper and the cutlery from the kitchen. In Frànçois's early hand-drawn animation films you can witness such wonders as buildings growing from the ground on picnic days, and lovers being attacked by books or lifted into the air by pollution clouds. More recently Frànçois collaborated with young folk singer Rozi Plain, and their latest film 'Get Good' is a ten minute stop-frame animation making use of photocopied faces, chalk drawings, slide projections and themselves.
The films are scored with a minimalist live soundtrack played by Frànçois and Rozi on casio keyboard, guitar and melodica.

see more pictures from the films here

"Violence"
a film by Frànçois and Rozi plain, music by Rose Kemp (one little indian records)