Love in Idleness

Synopsis

Animation. 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". [From press material.]

The film is made with charcoal on paper; the images are a series of drawings constantly erased and retraced.

Series

Still Shakespeare

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

2016

Duration

4 mins

Credits

Director

Kim Noce

Animator

Kim Noce

Additional Details

Production type

Animation

Plays

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

Trailer accessed on Vimeo 10/2016.

General

The film is part of Still Shakespeare slate of five short animated films developed and produced by Film London Artists’ Moving Image Networks in partnership with London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London, animation company Film Club at Th1ng, animation company Sherbet and the University of Portsmouth. The film ideas were developed during workshops supported by the Cultural Institute at King’s College London.

Online Availability

Online URL

https://vimeo.com/163852926

Production Company

Name

Sherbet