Affairs of the Art

Fifty-nine-year-old factory worker Beryl is totally obsessed with drawing, and her fixation dominates the entire household. Apart from her husband, Ivor, Beryl’s model and muse, the whole family is addicted to something: her son, Colin, is a technical geek and her sister, Beverly, is a fanatically narcissistic taxidermist. Obsession is in the family’s DNA.

Genre: Short, Animation

Director/Animator: Joanna Quinn
Writer/Producer/Colour Design: Les Mills
Additional Animation: Gemma Roberts
Additional Animation/Editor: Mia Rose Goddard
Music: Benjamin Talbott of John Hardy Music
Voices: Menna Trussler, Joanna Quinn, Mali Ann Rees

Producer NFB: Michael Fukushima
Animator: James Nutting
Additional Animation: Marci Rojas, Eliot Cseh, Gemma Roberts, Alex Thompson, Yoana Georgieva, Jordan Alexander Davies, Becky Peel
Voices: Brendan Charleson

Length: 16mins 23secs
Language: English
Certificate: TBC
Format: TBC

Date: January 2021 (International Premiere at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival)

• Skwigly: Interview with Joanna Quinn and Les Mills Part 1
• Skwigly: Interview with Joanna Quinn and Les Mills Part 2
• Press Kit

• Award for Best Animation – International CompetitionClermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2021)

• Official SelectionAspen Shortsfest, Colorado, U.S.A. (2021)

• Grand Competition – Short FilmWorld Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb, Croatia (2021)

• International CompetitionStuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany (2021)

• World Animation for AdultsHong Kong International Film Festival (2021)