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Josh Saunders

Profession
Year 2 Lecturer in Character Animation, MA Character Animation
College
Central Saint Martins
Person Type
Teacher
Josh  Saunders

Biography

I am an animation film director based in Southeast London. My debut short film, The Grey Hound, won the Royal Television Society Award 2017 for postgraduate animation. It was also nominated for the British Animation Awards People’s Choice Award 2018 and was selected for the BFI’s Best of Post Room 2018.

My new work, in partnership with the BFI Network, centers around an allotment community in Southeast England. My films aim to subvert ideas of class and gender by depicting and challenging British culture through the medium of hand-drawn animation. I use animation as a tool to explore through drawing. My practice aims to expose the veil that separates the visceral world from the imagined. I work closely with sound collaborators to find new ways that sound and image can be used to create startling connections between the audience’s slumbering seeds of childhood and their unconscious desires and fears in everyday life.

I also teach Film and Animation students across CCW and CSM. I hold an MA from the Royal College of Art and am a recognised Fellow of Higher Education (FHEA). My research is centered around drawing through the process of hand-drawn animation.