The Looking Game
TITLE
The Looking Game
DIRECTOR
Ann Upton
COUNTRY
Ireland
YEAR
2023
DURATION
7′
GENRE
Experimental
The Looking Game
"A Two Way Mirror with the Lights Switched Off" Eyes are tracked and attentions plotted as a fictitious audience follows the narrator's orders. They are divided by the screen and though they try, neither can see through to the other side. We can't be sure if the bond they form is reciprocal, or if the audience was ever even there to begin with.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Ann Upton
Ann Upton is a moving-image artist from Waterford, Ireland. Her work exists at the intersection of the minimal and surreal, exploring and interrogating the formal structures and conventions of filmmaking. She works as an associate lecturer on the Animation BA programme at IADT, Dublin. Ann graduated from IADT in 2019 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Animation. There she received the Windmill Lane Animation Award. Her graduate film Dorothy premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh. In 2020 she was commissioned by Creative Ireland and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown to produce an abstract short film, Act IV. Ann graduated from the Royal College of Art (London) in 2023 with a MA in Animation. Her graduate project The Looking Game had its international premiere at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in March 2024.
- DirectorAnn Upton
- ScreenplayAnn Upton
- Cinematography
- Cast
- Editing
- Producer/s Ann Upton
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleThe Looking Game
- Project TypeExperimental
- Completion Date 1 January 2023
- Country of originIreland
- Country of filmingIreland
- LanguageEnglish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectYes
Ann Upton
Ann Upton is a moving-image artist from Waterford, Ireland. Her work exists at the intersection of the minimal and surreal, exploring and interrogating the formal structures and conventions of filmmaking. She works as an associate lecturer on the Animation BA programme at IADT, Dublin. Ann graduated from IADT in 2019 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Animation. There she received the Windmill Lane Animation Award. Her graduate film Dorothy premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh. In 2020 she was commissioned by Creative Ireland and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown to produce an abstract short film, Act IV. Ann graduated from the Royal College of Art (London) in 2023 with a MA in Animation. Her graduate project The Looking Game had its international premiere at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in March 2024.
