July 08 - Man. It's been a while since I updated...I've become one "them" who forgets he has a website then promises to revise it and never does.

May 20
The Thing In The Distance will be playing at The Melbourne International Animation Festival later in the year.
I believe it's already been touring as part of The Australian International Animation Festival.
TITD also appeared at the 41st ASIFA-East Animation Festival where it received a special award for Excellence in Design.
Also, things have been moving along nicely with our Boxhead and Roundhead feature.
Stay tuned for more info as it comes to hand.

April 7
The Thing In The Distance is playing at the Maryland Film Festival, May 6-9 http://www.md-filmfest.com/

March 16
Also, The Thing In The Distance will be playing at the Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado, April 23 - 25.

March 03
Of course one of the things about making a news section on your website is that you have to remember to update it...
So.
You can see The Thing In The Distance at The Phoenix Film Festival in Arizona - April 8 -15.
I've also started returning the Boxhead and Roundhead shorts to Youtube...

January 31
Catch The Thing In The Distance at Caught Short In Sydney, Australia on Feb 04, and just announced, Thing will be playing at Festival du film Merveilleux, Paris, France - March 24 - 27.

January 10
Brothers In Arms will screen at The San Franciso Independent Film Festival in Feb.
The Thing In The Distance will appear at the New York Downtown Short Film Festival Audience Choice Screening.

December 31
News in over the last few days.
Brothers In Arms will appear at The Savannah International Animation Festival (which I'll try and attend), and for the 3rd time, Boxhead & Roundhead will play at the Future Film Festival in Italy.
It's a festival I don't know much about but they play some great stuff and have a fancy website.

December 07
The Thing In The Distance wins a Golden Pencil Award at the 2D or Not 2D animation festival.

December 03
Catch The Thing In The Distance at the 2D or Not 2D animation festival this Saturday!
From the festival blog:
"Here’s a perfect example real innovation and yet a traditional approach combined. The somewhat spooky but extremely enjoyable “The Thing in the Distance” by Elliot Cowan is one you must not miss. Suffice it to say, you won’t have seen anything’ like it before!".

November 25

The Thing In The Distance has it's North American premiere at 2D or Not 2D in Seattle sometime on the weekend of December 05.

November 14

Brothers In Arms wins Best In Non-Verbal Communication at the Animazing Spotlight.
We also scored Best Animation at the River's Edge Film Festival.

November 04
I've had two instances recently of screenings I only found out about after the fact.
Festival Internacional de Animación
Montevideo, noted below, and today I found out that Brothers In Arms received an Honorable Mention at the Indie Producer Short Film Contest in October!
Seems like a hundred years ago.
I can't possibly imagine why they wouldn't tell people...

October 29

"The Thing In The Distance" has its first confirmed screening at Festival du court métrage d'animation de Neufchâteau, Nov 16 - 21 in Belgium.

Brothers In Arms just received a Special Mention at the Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival, and I thought I'd mention it. "Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: Brothers in Arms, a film that depicts the story about the futility of war using minimum resources and achieving maximum expression."

Brothers In Arms will also be playing Nov 4 - 8 at the Holland Animation Festival

Nov 06, 07, 08 at The River's Edge Film Festival in Kentucky

Friday Nov 13 at The Queens International Film Festival

Nov 07 at The Animazing Spotlight (where it's nominated in the category of "non verbal communication")

Nov 24 - 26 at The 5th International Short-Movie Exhibition of Unioeste in Brasil

Nov 20 - 21 at Starz Denver Film Festival

Brothers In Arms continues to tour in the Australian International Animation Festival

and you'll have a rare chance to catch "Safari" in a larger than Youtube format at the touring Short Shorts Film Festival Nov 21 - Dec 05

October 03

Brothers In Arms is playing at the River's Edge Film Festival in Kentucky! Yay Kentucky.

Brothers In Arms is nominated in the category of "non-verbal communication" at the Animazing Spotlight in California.

September 19

Catch some of my non animation work at the Too Art for TV exhibition until October 18.

There's a rare chance to see On The Run and The Power Of Flight on the big screen at the New York Television Festival.
They're playing as part of the animation block:
Thursday, September 24th at 7:30pm
Friday, September 25th at 5:00pm

New World Stages
340 W 50th St. b/t 8th and 9th Ave
New York, NY 10019

I'll be at the screenings so come say hello.

September 18

Starz Denver Film Festival
Colorado, USA
November 2009

MergingArts Short Short Film Festival
Various, USA
November 2009

The Holland Animation Film Festival
Utrecht, Holland
November 2009

August 23

Brothers In arms is playing at The Californian International Animation Festival in September.

August 22

A brand new showreel!

Brothers In Arms is playing at Banjaluka Animated Film Festival in Bosnia. Nice.

August 15

The Woodstock Museum 10th Annual Film Festival sees a screening of Brothers In Arms. We love Woodstock - we got engaged there!

August 14

A brand new Boxhead and Roundhead adventure - online for a short time only!

August 10

B&R are playing in competition at the New York Television Festival in the Independent Producer category.
There's a little trailer you can watch here, if you wanna vote and all that stuff.

You can see Brothers In Arms at the KLIK! Animation festival in The Netherlands during September, where it's nominated in the political cartoon category and has been given a Mofti Award

July 2009

I've just noticed that I had all the years news listed as being 2008. What a dummy.

Brothers In Arms will be playing at the following festivals sometime very soon.

Prix Ars Electronica Animation Festival
Linz, Austria

Festanca
Bratislava, The Serbian Republic

June 22

I've been flat out with jobs for Sesame Workshop and Elizabeth Arden! Zoiks!

May 29

A brand new competition. Win a big hand drawn poster and an advance screening to the newest Boxhead and Roundhead adventure - The Thing In The Distance!

May 26

See my cartoon for The Big Gay Sketch Show. No suitable for most workplaces or children.

May 18

Boxhead and Roundhead crack South America and make their first appearance on the continent at Animamundi, in Brazil.

May 13

Strange experience. I entered Brothers In Arms into the Canada Film Festival and thought it got in. Then I thought I misread it and I didn't get in. Months later now I realise that I never misread it and that I DID get in.

Oh Canada - thanks folks!

May 13

Boxhead & Roundhead return to the Edinburgh International Film Festival! YAY!

One day I'll actually make it to the festival itself.

May 12

I've just transferred my site to a new server and it seems to be running about a million times faster. Email me if you think there's a problem.

May 07

Tonight we attended a live taping of The Big Gay Sketch show at which was played the animated sketch I did for them. It played to roars of laughter and much delight.

May 03

Brothers In Arms win an Achievement in Design award at the 40th ASIFA-East Animation Festival.

Hooray for us!

April 30

Tonight at 7!!!

BROTHERS IN ARMS at The BE Underground Film Festival
Thursday April 30, 7- 9PM
The Disney Screening Room
500 Park Ave (SW Corner of 59th St)
Tickets from: http://www.befilm.net/

THIS SUNDAY!

BROTHERS IN ARMS at the 40th ASIFA-East Animation Festival.
Sunday May 03 at 6pm
The New School
Tischman Auditorim
66 W. 12th St.
(bet. 5th/6th)

April 15

Brothers In Arms was selected to play at the China International Cartoon and Animation Festival.

March 08

Well we've got into a bunch more festivals but I'm only allowed to mention two of them until the respective official announcements .We're in Athens ANIMfest and here in NYC were at the BE Underground Film Festival.

Also, after our lovely TMBG experience, they included "Crumb Factory" as the sole item in their popular video podcast. Groovy, huh?

Feb 28

I was on the radio!

Feb 19

To my frustration, my copy of AE fell over and so production on The Thing In The Distance is on temporary hold. Watch the teaser.

In other news, I've updated and revised the gallery, which is nice.

Jan 25

Rock n roll supergroup They Might Be Giants spotted my Crumb Factory video on Youtube and called to say I was welcome to use the track. It's also been posted on their Myspace page and billions of fans have been enjoying it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Jan 21

Animation has commenced on the new Boxhead and Roundhead adventure - The Thing In The Distance.

Watch the teaser.

Don't forget to enter the competition.

Jan 15

Competition time! Email me to win art and other stuff!

Also - Boxhead & Roundhead - Brothers In Arms has been accepted into the Stuttgart Festival Of Animated Film.

Jan 14

I've updated the gallery with some new sinister images.

Jan 08

Well the collected works of Boxhead and Roundhead were recently sold to Shorts International for distribution which means I've had to take them down from Youtube.

To make up for it I've thrown together (or rather, finally finished) a fun little piece that I hope you'll enjoy "Crumb Factory".

Anyone wanting news about B&R can email me - we love to hear from folks.

December 30, 2008

Boxhead & Roundead return in 2009 to Cortoon International Short Film Festival of Rome, and the Future Film Festival in Bologna. The Italians love B&R so we love them in return!