Like Me, Only Better(2007, 05’20”, pencil on paper)
A laconic comedy about Neuroses, Catholicism and Prozac.
A man called Clive tries to become a better person and to overcome his various Obsessive Compulsive disorders. The film establishes a link between his Catholic upbringing, his childhood imagination and his adult phobias and compulsions.
I treat a serious subject with sympathy and humour to try to make a film that is both pertinent and entertaining. A hand-drawn animation in pencil, it moves between the inner and outer worlds of the main character Clive.
‘Like Me, Only Better’ is also my graduation film from the MA Animation Course at the Royal College of Art in London.
CAST
Robin Ince: Clive & Little Clive
Neil Edmond: The Priest & The Reassuring Voice
Karola Gajda: The Teacher
CREW
Script Editor: Andrew Baird
Additional Feedback: Kathinka Minthe
Additional Film Editing: Tony Fish
Animation Assistants: Edwin Rostron & Aline Helmcke
Original music composed by Tanera Dawkins
Featuring an excerpt of ‘Music Automatica’ by Pietro Grossi
Used by kind permission of Die Scachtel
Voices recorded by Graham Lawson
Foley Design by Sue Harding At Fonic
Foley Technician: John Mark at Fonic
Sound Design & Mix: Tom Lowe
Written, directed & animated by Martin Pickles
THANKS TO
Joan Ashworth, Silvie Bringas, Philippe Ciompi, David Dixon, Mark Deal, Stuart Franey, Bob Godfrey, Jo Ann Kaplan, Joe King, Ellie Land, Deborah Levy, Alan MacFeely, Len Massey, Kathinka Minthe, John Pattison, Adela Pickles, Christopher Pickles, Maja Pickles, Jake Roberts & Barnaby Templer at Fonic, Christine Roche, Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni of Die Schachtel, Suzie Templeton, Run Wrake & Tim Webb
AWARDS
Highly Commended at Scottish Mental Health Art and Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK, 2008
Jury Prize at Zlin Dog Film Festival, Zlin, Czech Republic, 2008
Best Animation Award at Chashama Film Festival, New York, USA, 2008
Jury’s First Prize at Kimera Film Festival, Campobassa, Italy, 2008
Public Award at Black & White Festival, Porto, Portugal, 2008
Shortlisted for Best Screenplay Award at Aniwow Student Animation Festival, Beijing, China, September 2007 Shortlisted for Best Screenplay Award at the End Of The Pier International Film Festival, Bognor Regis, May 2008
SCREENINGS
2010 etc.
The Politics Of Moisture exhibition, Siger Gallery, London: 30th March 2019
London Animation Club, London: 9th January 2018
Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK, 20th January 2016
Monstra at Sol da Caparica Music Festival, Portugal: 16th August 2015
Spotlights at Whirlygig Cinem<a, Hackney Attic, London: 6th August 2014
Neu! Reekie! #17, Edinburgh, Scotland: 25th May 2012
18th Annual International OCD Foundation Conference, Sheration San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, USA: 28th-31st July 2011
8 MUMIA (Mostra Udigrudi Mundial de Animacao), Santa Cruz, Brazil: 8th-12th September 2010
2009
CICDAF China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival, Changzhou, China: 28th September – 1st October 2009
KOTA 2023, Skopje, Macedonia: September 2009
3D Wire, Sergovia, Spain: 4th – 6th June 2009
ANIFEST ’09 International Animation Festival and Forum, Almaty, Kazakhstan: 30th May – 5th June 2009
2nd San Joaquin International Film Festival, California, USA: 14th – 23rd May 2009
Athens Video Art Festival, Greece: 14th – 17th May 2009
Timishort Film Festival, Timisoara, Romania: 6th – 10th May 2009
KAN 2009 Independent Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland: 22nd – 26th April 2009
Anima/Folioscope Festival 2009, Brussels, Belgium: 22nd and 25th February 2009
2008
Portobello Film Festival Christmas Party, London: 16th December 2008
FSF 10th International Student Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia: 10th-14th December 2008
Anchorage International Animation Festival, Anchorage, USA: 5th-14th December 2008
Short Escape, Barcelona, Spain: 4th-17th December 2008
Sommets Du Cinéma D’animation, Québec City, Canada: 28th- 30th November
and Montreal: 5th-7th December 2008
Skena Up Festival, Prishtina, Kosovo: 20th-27th November 2008
IFF Etiuda & Animation, Cracow, Poland: 14th-21st November 2008
Flip Animation Festival, Wolverhampton, UK: 6th-8th November 2008
Holland Animated Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland: 5th-9th November 2008
FIA International Animation Festival, Stockholm, Sweden: 31st October – 2nd November 2008
Think-Shoot-Distribute screening at The Hospital Club, London: 23rd October 2008
Filmini International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria (in the British Council’s programme of award-winning animated films): 20th-26th October 2008
Scottish Mental Health Art and Film Festival, Ediburgh, UK: 12th October 2008
Girona Film Festival, Catalunya, Spain: 6th-12th October, 2008
Tisza Mozi, Szolnok International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok, Hungary: 8th-12th October 2008
Anim’Est Festival, Bucharest, Romania (in the Outstanding British Animation Programme curated by the British Council): 3rd-12th October 2008
VII Open St. Petersburg Festival of film schools at Dom Kino, Saint-Petersburg, Russia: 25th-30th September 2008
Ottawa 2008 International Animation Festival, Canada: 17th-21st September 2008
KLIK!, Amsterdam, Holland: 12th-14th September 2008
BuSho International Short Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary: 3rd-7th September 2008
Portobello Film Festival, London, UK: 28th August – 14th September 2008
Canary Wharf Film Festival, London, UK: 28th-31st August 2008
Fresh Film Fest International Student Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic (in the Panorama section): 27th-31st August 2008
Anima Mundi, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: 11th-20th July 2008
and Sao Paulo: 23rd-27th July 2008
Tabor Film Festival in the Medieval Castle of Veliki Tabor, Croatia: 11th-19th July 2008 Portobello Film Festival Launch Party at Louise T Blouin Institutel, Olaf St, London: 10th July 2008
Film Sharing International Low and No Budget Short Film Festival on tour in Germany:
in Stuttgart: 4th-5th July 2008
in Heilbronn: 11th-12th July 2008
in Mainz: 16th July 2008
In The Palace Short Film Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria: 23rd-30th June 2008
Annecy International Animated Film Festival, France: 9th-15th June 2008
Animafest Zagreb, Croatia: 31st May 2008
Zlin Dog, Czech Republic: 29th May – 3rd June 2008 2008
Chashama Film Festival, New York, USA: 29th May-1st June 2008
Kimera Film Festival, Compobassa, Italy: 29th-31st May 2008
MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival, Portugal: 21st-27th May 2008
Stuttgart Internationales Trickfilm Festival, Germany: 2nd and 3rd May 2008
End Of The Pier International Film Festival, Bognor Regis: May 2008 Dazzle Films short film programme screening at Cannes Film Festival: May 2008
East End Film Festival, London, UK: April 2008
Aspen Film Festival, USA: 2nd-6th of April 2008
Philadelphia Film Festival, USA: 3rd-15th April, 2008
Black & White Festival, Porto, Portugal: 2nd -5th April 2008 Candid Projection Room, Candid Arts TrustLondon, U.K.: 1st April 2008
Laputa International Animation Festival 2008: 21st-22th March 2008
LICC (London International Creative Competition), London: March 2008
Early Melons International Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovak Republic: 5th-8th March 2008
Premiers Plans, Angers, France: 20th, 21st and 25th January 2008
5th London Short Film Festival, ICA, London: 6th January 2008
2007
Exposures UK Student Film Festival, Manchester, U.K.: 3rd-6th December 2007
zwegWERK, Oldenburg, Germany in the Stollen VI ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ programme: 1st December 2007
Anilogue 5th Budapest International Animation Festival: 30th November 2007
Giggleshorts, Toronto, Canada: 29th November 2007
Independent Film Festival II, British Council, Cairo, Egypt: 23rd November 2007
Euroshorts 2007, Warsaw, Poland: 22nd-25th November 2007
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil: 25th October-4th November 2007
50th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany: 29th October-4th November 2007
Bacup Film Festival, Bacup, Lancashire, U.K.: 26th-27th October 2007
Chitrakatha’07, Ahmedabad, India: 25th-27th October 2007
DE07 Film Programme at the Baltic Contemporary Arts center in Newcastle, U.K: 16th-24th October 2007
BALKANIMA 2007 Student Competition Programme, Belgrade, Serbia: 3rd-7th October 2007
Aniwow 2nd China International Student Animation Festival, Beijing, China: shortlisted for Best Screenplay Award: 21st-24th September 2007 Projektor week at the Cafe Gallery, London, U.K.: 15th September 2007
Oblo Underground Short Film Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland: 8th-9th September 2007
Premiere
Great Exhibition MA Graduation show at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU: 15th-28th June 2007
