MARFA – Greg Mcleod (United Kingdom, 2017) 8’33’’

A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the night sky. A mecca for lovers of minimalist art. A landscape of lost horses, freaks and food trucks. And then there’s the giant lemon.

 

 

Sundance Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, Animation Day in Cannes

 

Director BiographyGreg McLeod, Myles McLeod

Greg McLeod is an award-winning illustrator and animation director and one half of The Brothers McLeod. He has worked with Disney, Aardman Animations, the BBC and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His 2009 short film Codswallop was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award. His 2013 short film 365 saw him animating one second a day for the whole year. The film played internationally including at prestigious animation festivals Ottawa and Annecy.

Myles McLeod is an award-winning writer, poet and director and one half of The Brothers McLeod. He has developed animated shows for Disney, Dreamworks, Aardman Animations and the BBC. He has written over eighty broadcast episodes for TV. His short films include Phone Home, a short about the first phone call from Mars. His poems feature in the short films The Inverted Peak and Marfa.