Gillian Lacey - Tutor

Current Projects

Second Breath with sculptor Maurice Blik.
An installation/performance project with composer Alex Balanescu

Go to the Second Breath website: www.secondbreath.co.uk

Play- Ballets Russes on the beach 1936-1940. Afilm using colour archive footage playing with the movements of solo performaers of the Ballets Russes as they play on a beach in Sydney Australia.

Second Breath and Play are touring as live performance with the Balanescu Quartet. See the Second Breath website above.


Work In Progress

My ‘ 60's A personal evocation of the time using drawings from my eccentric diary of a 3 month period in 1969

Recent Awards

2001 NESTA Invention and Innovation Award

1999 Gulbenkian Foundation Award ‘Time to Experiment'

1997/8 Participant in DigiDance workshops sponsored by Illuminations

Film and TV Credits include :

2001 UNDER/LINE 3 minute SlotArt for CH4 Dancer Diane Payne Meyers

Choreographer Wayne McGregor

2001 HORIZONE 10minute Dance for Camera BBC 2. In collaboration with choreographer
WAYNE MCGREGOR

2000 DANCING UNDER THE DUSTCOVER CH 4 11 minute Dance / Animation with
Diana Payne Meyers

1999 DANCING INSIDE BBC 2 TX series/ London Production Fund

38-minute documentary/ digital dance manipulation working with 86year old choreographer / dancer Jane Dudley

1997 MIXED FEELINGS CH4 SLOT x2 doc/computer

1996 ALBUM BBC 2 Picture This series 26 min doc. Writer/Director

1995 GOTTA GET OUT CH 4 11 min fiction/animation Writer/Director

1994 CITIZEN BRAZIL CH 4 52min doc. Associate producer

1992 BRAZILIAN SNAPSHOTS CHl 4 35 min.doc. Associate Producer

1991 CAPOEIRA QUICKSTEP CH 4 /BFI 26 min. doc. Writer/Director

1987 MURDERS MOST FOUL CH 4 Director/animator

1983 GIVE US A SMILE CH 4/BFI Director/Animator

1981 PRETEND YOU'LL SURVIVE BFI Director/Animator

Career started in 1967 as an Assistant Animator on YELLOW SUBMARINE , followed by ten years work on animated TV series and commercials.

In1977 founded Leeds Animation Workshop to produce educational and issue based films. Films have been screened at many festivals around the world. Personal work over the last five years explores Film / Dance and Digital Manipulation. Teaching Animation has always been a parallel commitment with film making.

Part time/full time lecturer for many years on BA courses at Surrey Institute and Humberside University.

Head of the Animation Direction MA at the National Film and Television School from 1996 -2008.