Directing
Joseph Wallace
Known for
Directing
Credits
12 titles
Joseph Wallace is a BAFTA Cyrmu nominated animation and puppetry director. His award-winning work spans commercials, viral campaigns, music videos, short films and sequences for feature films and television. Described as ‘one of the UK’s most extraordinary stop-motion directors’ by London International Animation Festival, his work has been praised for its cinematic quality and unique aesthetic. His 2017 music video for Sparks was named one of the ten best British animated music videos of all time by Anim18 and led to Wallace creating stop motion sequences for Edgar Wright’s documentary feature ‘The Sparks Brothers’. Described by Mark Kermode as ‘dark wonders’, Wallace’s segments were nomina…
Known for
NRIn a woodland glade, an exhausted mythical creature is suffering from insomnia. When a small, verbose forest sprite appears and offers a sedative, it sounds like a perfect solution but the fatigued Wickywock is too impatient to heed the Sprite’s terms.
The Wickywock and the JubJub Berry
2025
6.6A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
Salvation Has No Name
2022
6.5Ivor's life is turned upside down after a falling plant pot sparks a series of paranoid reactions.
The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling
2011
NRIn the deepening twilight of the autumn forest, seven-year-old Lilly is searching for her older sister, Nora. Guided by the light of the Rootman – an enigmatic being – she encounters the mysterious inhabitants of the woods. Will Lilly find her sister?
The Rootman
2026
NRA creature wanders through a bleak environment watching, exploring and discovering objects that excite its curiosity
Curiouser & Curiouser
2008
NRIn the late afternoon sun the greedy landlord accosts the industrious farmer, demanding he pays the rent.
La Forêt Sauvage
2014
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRIn the deepening twilight of the autumn forest, seven-year-old Lilly is searching for her older sister, Nora. Guided by the light of the Rootman – an enigmatic being – she encounters the mysterious inhabitants of the woods. Will Lilly find her sister?
The Rootman
2026
NRIn the deepening twilight of the autumn forest, seven-year-old Lilly is searching for her older sister, Nora. Guided by the light of the Rootman – an enigmatic being – she encounters the mysterious inhabitants of the woods. Will Lilly find her sister?
The Rootman
2026
Behind the camera
NRIn a woodland glade, an exhausted mythical creature is suffering from insomnia. When a small, verbose forest sprite appears and offers a sedative, it sounds like a perfect solution but the fatigued Wickywock is too impatient to heed the Sprite’s terms.
The Wickywock and the JubJub Berry
2025
6.6A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
Salvation Has No Name
2022
6.6A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
Salvation Has No Name
2022
6.5Ivor's life is turned upside down after a falling plant pot sparks a series of paranoid reactions.
The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling
2011
6.5Ivor's life is turned upside down after a falling plant pot sparks a series of paranoid reactions.
The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling
2011
NRA creature wanders through a bleak environment watching, exploring and discovering objects that excite its curiosity
Curiouser & Curiouser
2008
NRIn the late afternoon sun the greedy landlord accosts the industrious farmer, demanding he pays the rent.
La Forêt Sauvage
2014
NRMark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.
Natural Disaster
2014
NRMark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.
Natural Disaster
2014
NRA gentleman, alone in his study, hurriedly writes a letter with an ink pen.
The Letter
2023