Fair Trials: Uncovering Anti-Roma Discrimination
2020
A series of short animations that come together to create a full film exploring the prejudice and racism faced by Roma people in society and the criminal justice system.
This film was created for the charity Fair Trials to portray some of the real life experiences of discrimination that was uncovered in their research.
CW: Contains Portrayals of Racism
Producers: Pam Cowburn and Selin Yasar
Director: Dann Parry
Production Assistant: Laura N-Tamara
Researcher: Bruno Min
With thanks to Andrzej Stuart-Thompson and Gracie Joy
© Dann Parry. MMXX
Lock Horns
2019
Two wrestlers approach each other to battle for male dominance, but soon the fight descends into something even more animalistic as hypermasculinity clashes with desire.
New animation from Dann Parry, Lock Horns is an animated commentary on hyper-masculinity and aggression shows how what can begin as a display of strength, ‘manliness’ and heterosexuality can quickly blur into sexualisation and homo-erotism – sometimes the very thing it is trying not to be.
Contains Mature Content
Little Dot Studios presents a film by Dann Parry for Channel 4’s Random Acts, 2019.
Music: Tom Walters of Kitsch Kub
Animation Assistants: Simji Park and Laura N-Tamara
Commissioning Editor: Catherine Bray
Commissioning Assistant: Jake Cunningham
Sex Consultant: Gracie Joy
With thanks to Orlando Da Silva Jr.
© Dann Parry. MMXIX
Apple Tree
2019
A stop motion animation music video for Another Sky’s single, ‘Apple Tree’.
A feminine young man spends his days sketching and talking to the flowers, much to the misunderstanding of his masculine peers.
Directors Statement
I found myself really resonating with the song and so the film was inspired by my own past growing up and how it could be seen to be reflected in the lyrics.
As a young teenager, I would often climb trees and go for walks by myself in the woods where I grew up rather than hanging out with the other kids who would play sports and so I tried to show this contrast between the two worlds in the animation.
I felt it important to show the character’s femininity as strength, rather than something to be pitied or mocked; when he is threatened and misunderstood his gentle personality and love for flowers rises up and protects him, while also breaking down the barriers between them in the process.
All of the characters, sets, and backgrounds were hand painted in black and white where the only real colour came from the flowers to really enhance the beauty and uniqueness of both them and the lead character in an otherwise sharp and aggressive world. And it’s when the softer natural side collides and grow with the masculine one that they become even more visually interesting.
Directed and Animated by Dann Parry
Produced by Roger Walker and Theo Broughton
Music by Another Sky
Background Artwork and Illustrations by Laura N-Tamara
Costumes by Andrew Dhesi
Production Assistants Hakim Ismail and Vincent Vaughan
© Universal Music, Dann Parry. MMXIX
“Apple Tree’ is an ode to outsiderdom, put to the excellent visuals of the stop-motion music video directed by Dann Parry. The contrast of the colourful flowers against the maudlin grey of everyday life is as haunting as it is sharp.” – Let it Happen, 2019
Screenings
2020
AnimSyros International Animation Festival, Greece. 23rd September
2019
Beer Town Film Festival, Burton upon Trent, UK. 8th June
The Lift-Off Sessions, Online. 13th October
Press
2019
‘Another Sky Shares Striking New Stop Motion Visual’, Elevator Magazine
‘Another Sky Celebrates Feminity In Men With New Single ‘Apple Tree”, Born Music
‘Another Sky’s ‘Apple Tree’ Is Curiously Personal’, CLASH
‘Watch the video for Another Sky’s latest single, ‘Apple Tree”, Dork
‘Another Sky Unveil New Single “Apple Tree” with Striking Stop-Motion Video’, With Guitars
‘Another Sky share rosy new single ‘Apple Tree’’, Let It Happen
‘Another Sky Unveils New Single + Stop Motion Video for “Apple Tree”’, Vents Magazine
‘Another Sky – Apple Tree’, Scientists of Sound
Birds of a Feather
2017
“An emotionally wresting animation that packs as much punch into its four and a half minutes as most features do in two hours” – Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest.
Birds of a Feather is an animated short film that follows a man and his struggle with his identity, projected anxieties and relationships over the course of an evening. He has to contend with his insecurities with being seen with another man and his fear as feathers start to grow from his body.
The film explores the worries and upset a person can face from both internalised and externalised homophobia. Ultimately, it draws on current events, such as the horrific attack in the Pulse bar in Orlando, and explore how even now the LGBT community can still find itself under attack and where that fear and hatred can come from.
Contains Mature Content
Directed and Written by Dann Parry
Soundtrack Composed by Mau Loseto
with Maria Gîlicel on Violin; Nazil Erdogan on Viola; Carolina Bartumeu on Cello; and Lucia Polo Moreno on D.Bass
Costumes by Kate Peachman
Production Assistants Jack Brown and India Stewart
© Royal College of Art, Dann Parry. MMXVII
Awards
2018
WINNER: Best UK Film. Camberley International Festival, UK. June
NOMINATED: Best Student Short Film. Taichung International Animation Festival, Taiwan. October
Screenings
2020
Giornate di Cinema Queer, Italy. 15th May
2019
The Lift-Off Sessions, Online. 17th February.
KingstOOn Animation Festival, Kingston, UK. 5th April
LGBTQ Shorts Film Festival, Missoula, USA. 11th June
2018
BFI Flare: Revelate, London, 29th – 30th March
Out & Loud – Pune International Queer Film Festival, India. 6th April
Cefalù Film Festival, Italy. 1st May
CINEVERSATIL, International Short Film Festival LGBTIQ+ , Buenos Aires, Argentina. June
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico. July
Rio Festival de Gênero & Sexualidade no Cinema, Brazil. July
Camberley International Festival, UK. June
B-Movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival, Netherlands. August
Taichung International Animation Festival, Taiwan. October
2018
Pride Friday Film Festival, Leeds Queer Film Festival, Leeds, UK. 4th August
ARS Independent Festival, Katowice, Poland. 28th September
Flux Screening Series, Hammer Museum, California, USA. 8th October
Sunday Shorts Halloween Special, London, UK. 29th October
Palm Springs International Animation Festival, California, USA. 9th – 11th November
FliQs Queer Film Night, Montreal, Canada. 13th November
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, London, UK. 14th November
Press
2017
Without Fair Trials
2016
An animation for a charity campaign that explores what would happen in a world without the right to a fair trial; created with my collective, Tripstitch.
Fair Trials is a human rights organisation that works to uphold fair trial rights around the world. Their vision is a world where every person’s right to a fair trial is respected.
Visit withoutfairtrials.org for more information.
Directed By: Rachael Olga Lloyd, Patrick O’Mahony, Dann Parry
Lead Model Maker: Rachael Olga Lloyd
Animator: Patrick O’Mahony
Lighting Designer: Dann Parry
Sound Designer and Foley Artist: Morgan Muse
Composer: Segun Akinola
Co-Composer and Guitarist: Ben Quinn
Special Thanks: Jago Russell, Alex Mik, Johnny Lillis, Georgia Greenfield, Evangelos Papadakis, Birgitta Hosea, Joe King, Mike Wyeld, Guy Nesfield & David Dixon
Bound (Together)
2016
Struggling to escape a desolate forest of his own making, a man is being followed by the creature he is bound to.
Royal College of Art, 2016
Contains Mature Content
Directed and Written by Dann Parry
Soundtrack Composed by Mau Loseto
Additional Foley by Patrick O’Mahony
Costume by Andrew Dhesi
© Royal College of Art. MMXVI
Screenings
2016
Sunday Shorts, Peckham. 12th June
Drunken Film Festival, Bradford. 28th July
Short Pole London International Film Festival, London. Summer Selection.
BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York. 3rd – 6th November.
Awards
2016
Semi-Finalist in the Elche International Independent Film Festival, Spain in Animation. July
Subject 16 | Matija Cop
2016
Directed fashion film of Matija Cop’s garment. Shown on loop beside the garments on display.
Contains Mature Content
Designer: Matija Cop
Director: Dann Parry
Assistant Director: Patrick O’Mahony
Model: Felicity Taylor
Love and Papercuts
2015
A lonely man, struggling to find romance, finds love in origami.
“A disturbing piece of work for an adult audience with an advanced concept and a level of execution which elevates it to the level of art.” – Royal Television Society
Contains Mature Content
Directed by Dann Parry
© University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. MMXV
Screenings
2016
Ozark Shorts: Monthly Film Festival, USA. April
2015
Short Sighted Cinema: With or Without You, London. 21st June
Guildford Fringe Festival: Fresh from Farnham, Guildford. 9th June
Puppet Place Festival: New Visions, Bristol. 26th Aug – 6th Sep
Dorking Film Festival: Adult Short Films, Dorking. 17th Oct
Awards
2016
The Boy and His Monster
2014
A boy finds himself awoken late at night to the invitation of tea but a figure is watching over him and he’s not all that he seems.
Directed by Dann Parry
© University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. MMXIV