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The film is available on several DVDs of Aardman Animation short films. For the German DVD cover they used a still from my film.

After I left college I applied for and won the MOMI/Channel Four Award. My proposal was for a stop motion short called Not Without My Handbag. The plot included a Faustian washing machine repayment contract, a zombie aunt and a handbag which becomes possessed by the devil. I shot a two minute sequence as animator in residence at the Museum of the Moving Image. Subsequently the film got commissioned by Channel Four Television. I had my heart set on getting the film made at Aardman Animations, who luckily took on the project. I then spent a year in Bristol making my film. Geraldine McEwan voiced the character of the undead aunt. Andrea Friedrich voiced the little girl, did the 2D animation and helped me in writing the film and Julian Nott composed and performed the music.

Not Without My Handbag is my tribute to horror films. Someone once wrote in a festival catalogue that it looked like Dario Argento had directed an episode of  The Magic Roundabout  which perfectly sums up the visual style I was going for.

The film has been repeatetly shown on  Channel Four and on many International TV channels. It was screened at film festivals around the world, including Annecy, Ontario and Hiroshima. It won Best International Animation at the Tampere Film Festival 1994, Best Animation at the Dresden International Short Film Festival 1994 and received the Audience Prize at the Braunschweig Film Festival 1994.


The picture links to me talking about the MOMI/Channel Four Animators in Residence scheme. It was part of a documantery which got shown before the films first Channel Four transmition.
Someone downloaded Not Without My Handbag on YOUTUBE. Many of the commentators mentioned how they were traumatised by my film when they were children. For some reason this makes me incredibly proud:

PART ONE
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