Oliver Harrison

Oliver Harrison
Born	Stratford-Upon-Avon England
Occupation	Filmmaker, artist, animator
Nationality	British

Oliver Harrison is a filmmaker, artist and animator based in London. His films have been shown around the world in festivals including: Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival and the London Film Festival and have picked up many awards. His work has been featured at Tate Modern, the Whitechapel Gallery, The Barbican Centre and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. A pioneer of kinetic typography and hugely influential in the development of motion graphics, much of Harrison's work has a strong typographic element. His feature film The Fallen Word premiered at the BFI Southbank in 2013.

Harrison was recently commissioned by the London Sinfonietta along with three other animators: Edwin Roston, Karoline Glusiec and Petra Freeman, to animate the opera Into The Little Hill written by George Benjamin with libretto by Martin Crimp. The piece was produced through Animate Projects.

His debut feature film The Fallen Word premiered at The BFI Southbank in May 2013 coinciding with the release of the DVD The Fallen Word and Collected Films, funded by Arts Council England. Written and directed by Harrison, The Fallen Word stars: Julian Bleach, Steve Smith, Will Strange, Jim Conway, Emma Hill, Dominic Cazenove and Gavin Molly and has been described as: 'a sinister fairytale'. The Fallen Word was invited to screen at the Beginning festival in St Petersburg in 2014.

Apocalypse Rhyme won the award for Best Motion Graphics in the British Animation Awards 2014. The film was commissioned by Channel 4's Random Acts and produced by Animate Projects and Lupus Films . The film made official selection in the Aesthetica Short Film Festival,The Imperial War Museum Film Festival and also in the Writ Large festival in Santa Cruz where it was projected against buildings. Apocalypse Rhyme was featured in articles in Artribune, and Savage; Lucy Felbusch described the film as 'devastating and beautiful' and is listed as number 12 in the Creative Bloc 'must see examples of kinetic typography'.

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