Bradley Manning Had Secrets is an animated personal portrait of Bradley Manning, not as the Wikileaks “hacktivist” but as a young soldier going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-gender-identity.
This is my first non-fiction piece – all the dialogue is taken from Bradley’s online conversations with Adrian Lamo. I’ve also taken on a new graphic style: rotoscoping live-action footage into minimalist pixel-art.
This is all made possible by Animate Projects who have commissioned the film. They’re also hosting a few Making Of Videos for it.
Towards the end of last year, I was approached by the French environmental charity Reseasu Environment Santé to write and direct an animation for their campaign on BPA plastics. Narrowing down from several proposed scripts, we eventually developed The Story Of A Tin Can into the above promo.
Having worked with Jonathan Harris on Internet Story, I was very happy to for him to animate the entire film this time!
Likewise, the music is from another long-term collaborator: Blair Mowat.
