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Jim and Heinz A bezerk robot suffering from the wrong size of memory chip, a demon mask that won't come off, the perils of playing ‘super monkey ball’ on a building site, 27 identical people chopped up in a bath and rondos that go on forever. All of these and more are depicted in a series of fifteen short films featuring the characters of Jim and Heinz. Being only moderately aware that their days are filled with bizzare events and thrilling adventures, Jim and Heinz are more concerned with how long it takes for a website to load and why Heinz has never met his girlfriend. In keeping with the novel universe in which the films are set, the look of the films is uniquely original without being intrusive. Each film is made by a process of using hundreds of still images rather than motion video. The mechanics of shooting and dubbing something in this format are extremely time consuming; all the special effects are processed by hand in Photoshop on a frame-by-frame basis and this, along with sound effect processing, is done on a regular desktop computer. On the plus side, mediocre actors can have great performances constructed for them in the editing. No shot is too long or short as the stills can be manipulated to last any length of time.. Fluffed lines, erring and badly paced deliveries can be fixed easily without lip synch issues. AWARDS AND SCREENINGS In 2006, 'The Electric Bull Riding Contest' was awarded the Vauxhall Auteur prize at the Halloween film festival, and the latest film, the entirely dialogue-free 'Shhh' won the 'Best Low Budget Film' award at the 2008 London Short Film Festival, as well as being runner up for the UK film council's 'Best Film of the festival' award. Another screening followed at the Suburbia NoBudget Film Festival. A one minute version of 'Shhh' also won the Renderyard 1 minute challenge' in December 2007 and has been shown on Spanish TV. In November 2008 'Shhh' was programmed in one of the top film festivals worldwide: the AFI Fest in Los Angeles (presented by Audi) , And in January 2009 the film screened at the Disposable Film Festival in San Francisco where it won a coveted 'Trashy' award
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