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For 25 years, Channel 4 has been charming, perplexing
and occasionally infuriating prime time television audiences with
short creative, auteur animation. For more than a decade Clare Kitson
was the woman orchestrating this rather unique experience. It was
her job to decide which films would be funded and which films would
be screened. It was one of the most important, powerful jobs in
the animation world and Kitson never put a foot wrong. Commercial
pressures eventually pushed this seam of programming over the edge
and we now have nothing but the history and the films to reflect
upon.
Kitson’s new book documents her time at Channel
4 working with a who’s who of British animation. Over a glass
of wine on a rooftop in London one evening, she agreed to curate
this program of her favourite films from the Channel 4 archive.
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