ECA at manipulate Visual Theatre Festival

Work from Edinburgh College of Art students will animate one of Edinburgh’s most innovative arts festivals.

Now entering its fifth year at the Traverse Theatre, manipulate Visual Theatre Festival is a celebration of visual theatre and animation from around the world.

A showreel of 16 animated films from ECA graduates will be displayed at the Traverse Bar Café during the festival.

For six days, the Traverse will become a home to many different styles of visual theatre, puppetry, object and physical theatre, and a film programme which offers a snapshot of the best international contemporary animation.

manipulate runs from 30 January to 4 February 2012.

The ECA showreel features:

  • Etude by Ania Hazel Leszczynska
  • First Day by Christina Fung
  • Let Me Come In by Paul Rice
  • The Golden Bird by Cat Bruce
  • The Making of Longbird by Will Anderson
  • An interrupted Story by Ania Hazel Leszczynska
  • A Game Of String by Magda Boreyska
  • But It Makes Me Happy by Ania Hazel Leszczynska
  • Coyote And The Stars by Claire Stewart
  • Domingueros by Nuria Gonzalez Blanco
  • If We Meet by Jiamin Liu
  • Out On The Tiles by Anna Pearson
  • The Monster in The Toilet by Ania Hazel Leszczynska
  • Nosers by Nikolay Vorontsov
  • Symmetry by Steven Shand
  • Savage Mountain by Steve Warne