Sam Steer

I was asked to do a bit of sign painting for a French chateau. See more details HERE.

HERE is a mural I collaborated on with artist Sophie Baker.

In July this year I ran a workshop for 10-18 year olds in the suffolk village of Yoxford. Over 4 days we produced a 3 minute film which you can find out more about here.

Please come and watch a performance of my film The Butterfly and Snail with live music – in Barnes, London, on Wednesday the 9th of April at the Old Sorting Office, 7:30pm.

Tickets £10 (£8 in advance at ticketsource.co.uk/osoarts )

It will appear as part of the London Short Film Festival as part of The Gothic and the Grotesque at the BFI, on Tues 14th Jan, 8.30pm.

My new animation Ürth Mütha will be screened on Channel4 in the UK on the 11th of December 2013 at 00:55 – That’s very early in the morning, but it’s worth staying up for. It’s an epic tale about creation itself. Set on a far distant planet (which is the shape of a human female, but massive) Lokuña must deliver the message to the planet’s thinking core to kickstart life as we know it.

Singer Ana Silvera‘s dance collaboration based at the Royal Opera House is called Cassandra. I have been editing the video of the result of the development period they had at the ROH.

I joined the Uninvited Guests to take part in the Unsung project in Greenwich Park. I spent two days making temporary paper memorials for the unsung heroes of the members of the visiting public.

The Beast I Am has been chosen for the OFFICIAL COMPETITION in the Student Films Category of SICAF2013, which is the Seoul International Cartoon Animation Festival.

I took part in Give Me Back My Broken Night in London and Bristol. Drawing over a network whilst listening big brother style to the participants’ visions of the future – my drawings being relayed back via portable projectors so that they could see an image of their concepts live, right there in the street!!

Here is an electric sitar I made recently for Guitar Hero. If the film shoot goes well, it might even end up in their next game. Take a look HERE to see how I transformed an old acoustic guitar into this sitar.

I’ve got the animation MA in the bag now and the show is on the way. It is on from the 20th of June to the end of the month if you want to come down and see what everyone has been up to.

Here are some details of my graduation film “The Beast I Am“

Sefa and I had a great time in Glasgow, showing our films and meeting the lovely people there. We showed our programme in a nice venue called The Arches, which was a bit like a Scottish Version of Shunt, though not quite so aromatic, but included the atmospheric rumblings of trains passing overhead filtered through a lot of Victorian brickwork.

I’m pleased to announce that Sefa and I will be showing Postman’s familiar in Glasgow as part of the Glasgow Film Festival as part of our curated programme called Like a ham head in the wind.

For bookings please go to The Arches website.

We are excited to be showing Postman’s familiar again with Sefa playing the live music. In London a the Hackney Picture House on the 13th of January 2012. There will be some other live music too and a late bar. It is part of the London Short Film Festival. Tickets: £8, £7 conc., £6 members

I’m starting to build up steam on my second year project now which is going to be a stop-motion animation about a young lad and what he thought was going to be a dull day at the museum, which turns into an epic rite of passage for Theo, our boy on the edge of manhood. Thanks to the beautiful Ariadne he inadvertently finds himself deep in the labyrinth at Knossos and little does he know that round the next corner is the dreaded minotaur, besides which is the question of how he will ever get home, etc.

Well that’s the synopsis!

It’s going to be a stop motion film and it will feature some original music by Dave Maric.

Serafina and I just got back from a fun trip to Branchage film festival in Jersey where we premiered our new fillum called ‘Postman’s Familiar‘. Didn’t get to meet Bergerac, he was apparently holding a £100 per ticket black tie dinner at the same time as our event, so he was not in our good books anyway – we had a good turnout nonetheless.
Oh and it was my birthday..