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Simon Pummell. Simon Pummell is a British filmmaker currently based in Amsterdam in The Netherlands, best known for directing Bodysong (2003) a documentary feature film that portrays the human life-cycle through archive footage from across a century of moving image creation. [ 1]
Simon Pummell was born in 1959 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Identicals (2015), Bodysong (2003) and Temptation of Sainthood (1993). More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info.
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Bodysong is a 2003 BAFTA-winning documentary about human life and the human condition directed by Simon Pummell and produced by Janine Marmot. The image search and research on the film was performed by Ann Hummel.
Jun 30, 2004 · On Simon Pummell's 'Bodysong' One of the more entrancing documentaries on the festival circuit this year is Bodysong (Simon Pummell, dir./wtr.; Janine Marmot, prod.), a poetic depiction of human life told through moving images from the last 100 years of cinema.
Simon Pummell FSC-Harvard Fellow 2008-09 Simon Pummell’s animated & special FX films for television, idents and promos have won numerous international awards. In 2003 he wrote and directed Bodysong, a feature film & website that used found footage taken from across the last 100 years of cinema to depict an archetypal life story. The
SIMON PUMMELL In his comprehensive survey, ANIMATION: A WORLD HISTORY, Giannalberto Bendazzi gives Pummell a significant place in the development of UK animation and describes his work as “crossing the boundaries of traditional animation; making films that turn on the anxiety caused by having a physical body and the need to find one’s self in a world of new technologies.”
Aug 12, 2016 · For a science fiction film, director Simon Pummell’s feature-length fiction debut Identicals is firmly grounded in reality.As well as drawing on tropes of the genre like dystopia, untrustworthy high-tech businesses and high-speed chases, it also focuses a lot on human nature and identity.