about me

I'm a filmmaker, animator, artist and curator living and working in Sheffield UK. This website is an unfettered archive of films I've made - from innovative educational projects and freelance client work to short series commissions and broadcast TV. 

I mix animation with live action and documentary to create engaging, informative and entertaining films about art, education and cultural heritage with a special interest in digital arts and culture.  

My work has been broadcast on BBC4 and Channel 4 and screened at international festivals, galleries and museums. Alongside film making I work with arts organisations, galleries, theatre companies, museums and educational institutions on a wide range of projects, often in collaboration with other artists and community groups. I produce exhibitions and events and help cultural institutions and organisations to create and preserve their digital archives and I run educational workshops, helping people to develop creative skills through making their own films and animation. 

In 2017 I devised and delivered a participatory community animation project with artist Paul Evans for the CAER Heritage Project winning the 2017 Times Higher Education Award for 'Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community'. This project involved setting up a stop motion animation studio on top of an ironage hillfort in Wales. In 2019 I created The Machinery Installation, a multi-screen immersive video installation made in collaboration with Caroline Radcliffe and Sarah Angliss, which was launched at the World Heritage Festival in Ironbridge and went on to tour to industrial museums and music festivals around the UK. This was based on an earlier single screen film shown as part of the Marvellous Mechanical Museum exhibition at Compton Verney, described by The Observer as 'a brilliant 2016 film in which Caroline Radcliffe performs a heel-and-toe clog dance that was once tapped out daily by female workers in Victorian cotton mills' 

Please swipe-up and scroll-down to explore examples of my work for BBC Four, Bradford Galleries & Museums, CHOL Theatre, The Crafts Council, Ironbridge Gorge Museum, National Arts Education Archive at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, CapeUK, Rotherham Borough Council, The Wildlife Trust, Algomech Festival, The International Conference on Live Coding and Universities of Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Sheffield and Sussex. 

Credit and thanks go to all the fantastic filmmakers, artists, performers, schools and community groups I've been fortunate to work with over the years.

You may also be interested in my work as Co-Director of the Lovebytes Festival of Digital Arts (1994–2012) archived here: http://www.lovebytes.org.uk by UK Web Archive and here: http://www.lovebytes.tv

You can contact me@jonharrison.com