Edwin Rostron

Help Desk

A mysterious transmission revealing playful geometric possibilities. Help Desk is a hypnotic hand drawn animation, providing a meditative and contemplative space, oscillating between flatness and depth, control and instability.

The Asphodel Phases

The Asphodel Phases takes the viewer on a drifting exploration through a mysterious, abstract space, towards something alien deep within.

Robot Memoir

A series of abstractions from the draughty corners of the United Kingdom. ROBOT MEMOIR is a collaborative film by Edwin Rostron and musician / writer Supreme Vagabond Craftsman. Edwin’s animation incorporates found imagery, photography and drawing, and utilises improvisational processes, responding to the mesmerising electronic music and cryptic, unsettling poetry of Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.

Our Selves Unknown

‘Our Selves Unknown’ takes the book ‘Landscape in Distress’ as its raw material, reconfiguring its photographic illustrations, text and cover design into pencil and ink drawings, using a working process of self-enforced rules and restrictions, obstacles and chance.

Of Unknown Origin

Inspired by the tape recordings of Raymond Cass, a hearing-aid specialist from Hull and one of the UK’s foremost researchers into ‘Electronic Voice Phenomenon’.

Electric Literature (Watching Mysteries With My Mother)

Short piece for Electric Literature's Single Sentence Animation series, based on a sentence from the short story 'Watching Mysteries with my Mother' by Ben Marcus. The story features in the first issue of Electric Literature's 'Recommended Reading'. Single Sentence Animations are creative collaborations. The writer selects a favorite sentence from his or her work and the animator creates a short film in response. Animation by Edwin Rostron, music by Supreme Vagabond Craftsman. Words by Ben Marcus © 2012

Our Selves Unknown

‘Our Selves Unknown’ takes the book ‘Landscape in Distress’ as its raw material, reconfiguring its photographic illustrations, text and cover design into pencil and ink drawings, using a working process of self-enforced rules and restrictions, obstacles and chance.

Fragments (2020-22)

Fragments made during covid times. Made completely spontaneously and very quickly, using whatever was around, drawings, photos and mostly shot with my phone. Just trying to break through the fog. Made purely for the sake of making something from nothing. Coming out of the pandemic (ish) I realised I had amassed over 70 of these - not films - just fragments of animation. All together they become a wayward mass that I suppose represents that uncertain period time. They were shown in my solo exhibition at Deptford Contemporary in July 2022 and then a smaller selection in October 2022 at Cube Microplex at a screening of my work organised by BEEF (Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film).

Fragments (2020-22)

Fragments made during covid times. Made completely spontaneously and very quickly, using whatever was around, drawings, photos and mostly shot with my phone. Just trying to break through the fog. Made purely for the sake of making something from nothing. Coming out of the pandemic (ish) I realised I had amassed over 70 of these - not films - just fragments of animation. All together they become a wayward mass that I suppose represents that uncertain period time. They were shown in my solo exhibition at Deptford Contemporary in July 2022 and then a smaller selection in October 2022 at Cube Microplex at a screening of my work organised by BEEF (Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film).

Fragments (2020-22)

Fragments made during covid times. Made completely spontaneously and very quickly, using whatever was around, drawings, photos and mostly shot with my phone. Just trying to break through the fog. Made purely for the sake of making something from nothing. Coming out of the pandemic (ish) I realised I had amassed over 70 of these - not films - just fragments of animation. All together they become a wayward mass that I suppose represents that uncertain period time. They were shown in my solo exhibition at Deptford Contemporary in July 2022 and then a smaller selection in October 2022 at Cube Microplex at a screening of my work organised by BEEF (Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film).

The Asphodel Phases

The Asphodel Phases takes the viewer on a drifting exploration through a mysterious, abstract space, towards something alien deep within.

Dog Glossary

The glossary of a book about breeding and owning Collies.

Dog Glossary

The glossary of a book about breeding and owning Collies.

Cul-de-sac of Mortality

Text and Music by Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.

Visions of the Invertebrate

A collaboration between artist Edwin Rostron and musician Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.

Visions of the Invertebrate

A collaboration between artist Edwin Rostron and musician Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.