Frome's most fabulous street band need to get out of town for a bit. So they're heading back to their roots; the mysterious Hotel Banditos... Narrative led music video, live action/animation hybrid. Filmmaker: Howard Vause | Music: Frome Street Bandits [REMIX: Howard]

GLOWBALL • loopable 60 second live action/animation hybrid exploring our relationship with our Shadow. Synopsis: A man’s shadow takes on a life of its own and draws him towards dark thoughts and deeds. In an effort to escape the shadow’s malign influence, the man surrounds himself entirely in artificial light by taking up residence inside a GLOWBALL - an illuminated sphere – a place where no shadow can exist. He discovers that removing himself from the world of shadows also isolates him from those he loves - who are now only glimpsed as vague shapes outside the wall of his shadowless world. Light has overcome the darkness, but at what cost? The story is told as a 3-1-2 timeline and plays well as a loop. There is no dialogue but music is integral. Origins of the story: The Weinstein and #MeToo revelations are the latest reminders of how our shadow in it’s masculine aspect is drawn towards power, control and exploitation. Cultural denial of histories founded on genocide and slavery are the proof of this and the world is full of other examples. We each have a shadow aspect that we prefer to keep hidden. GLOWBALL is about our relationship with that shadow self on both a personal and societal level. The monster will always find a way to manifest. If we refuse to accept and assimilate our ugliness we are incomplete and risk disconnecting from our essential humanity. Very dangerous… Soundtrack courtesy of Filmstro; feat. "Jaguarundi" and "Turin".
 Filmmaker: Howard Vause.
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a minute of miscellanea - mainly animation

Wasn't using much HD back in 2009, when I made this. Original soundtrack by multi-instrumentalist Dr PJ Leonard and myself. Emma Hannam's smouldering vocal on our duet is timeless and perfect. Also features a tasty sample from Bernard Herrmann's score for Psycho (1960) (no - not *that* bit). This film won "Best Animation" at Shepton Digital Arts Festival 2010.

This 60-second pilot for THE CURIOUS CHILD was awarded BEST COMIC ANIMATION 2018 | Reallusion.

40 second Teaser/Trailer for 3-minute animated short "The Curious Child" | Howard Vause Films ...a question so big it will take a lifetime to forget Written and Animated by Howard Vause Narrated by Bethan Dixon Bate Original Music by PJ Leonard Thanks to Cartoon Animator 4 [Reallusion] for support and encouragement #curiouschildmovie

WILLIAM FINKENRATH - Debtor SIMON BLAKEMAN | DENIS DOGAN - Debt Collectors HOWARD VAUSE - Director | Camera | Editor In association with FROME ACTORS NETWORK a 60-second film edited from the "Empty Dialogue" exercise in which actors are given 6-8 lines of non-commital script and asked to improvise or quickly devise a scene/characters around it. ACT FOR SCREEN WORKSHOP led by Howard Vause for Frome Actors Network | Hosted by Merlin Theatre, Frome, Somerset UK | Feb 2018.