"Extraordinary. Simon Pummell combines live action with digital technology to create Gothic mysteries like 'Butchers Hook'"
Time Out
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"The heritage of Peter Greenaway's idiosyncratic short films of the 70s and 80s can be found a decade later in the dazzling works of Simon Pummell - intelligent, perverse and visually thrilling films which combine arcane or ancient elements with new technologies."
National Film Theatre
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"Simon Pummell, whose animated and short fiction films have with an extra-ordinary imagination embraced both an alliance and conflict with the new technology, is one of the younger generation of film-makers who will inevitably become an acrobat on the high-wire of the new electronic networks."
Vertigo
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"Pummell's work consistently spans the divisions between old methods and new.
Wired
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The animation films and fiction films Simon has created for Channel 4 have been screened internationally, and won many awards.
Simon has had retrospectives of his work at major international film festivals.
Simon was asked to create two short films for the feature film that accompanied Freddie Mercury's final album - Queen's 'Made in Heaven'.
Before directing films, Simon line produced over 40 commercials combining live action and animation.
Bodysong is his first feature film.
He is currently working on;
 Dogfight, (a science fiction feature based on a William Gibson novel)
as writer/director.
Slow Motion Explosion. Writing an original screenplay.
City of Shadows. Creating a new media installation.
For a filmography visit http://www.pummell.com
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