Gillian Lacey

Directing

Gillian Lacey

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

Gillian Lacey is a British filmmaker and animator.

Known for

Someone Must Be Trusted... poster
NR

Second film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. Roche combines 3 brief gems on equal pay, rape, and the myth of the virgin & the whore.

Someone Must Be Trusted...

1987

No artwork available
NR

An androgynous person is climbing up a swaying tower of humans who hang in the air. Many drop into a sea of flies below them. The flies pick at their brains. At the top of the tower a lotus flower opens and radiates light.

Up

1970

Gotta Get Out poster
8.0

About a personal experience of claustrophobia and how to deal with it. When you can't have another cup of coffee or another brandy because you just gotta get on the plane. And there you are. And suddenly there's a flight attendant saying "good morning".

Gotta Get Out

1995

No artwork available
NR

Based on themes arising from real life interviews, Touch Wood looks at the nature of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The action takes place over one night where we see a man preparing for bed. However instead of falling asleep he spends the time checking and rechecking lights, doors and clocks, obsessively securing the house for his night’s rest. Stylistically the animation highlights the divide between the character and his attempt to control his increasingly malevolent environment. The film explores the uneasy balance between the man’s desire to control his life and the compulsions that try to possess him.

Touch Wood

1996

No artwork available
NR

Capoeira is a Brazilian dance performed to African-based music. In a personal film collaboration between two friends, a part documentary, part docu-drama style explores the way this tropical dance is transformed when it reaches Britain.

Capoeira Quickstep

1992

The Wanderings of Ulick Joyce poster
5.0

A distinctive animated short inspired by Irish folk tales, made with assistance from the BFI Production Board. Set “long ago when men lived in caves” this tells the tale of Ulick, a would-be king, banished from his realm for his violent and unholy deeds and forced to wander through Ireland and the furthest reaches of his own mind. Inspired by Irish folk tales, the story emerged from director and animator Gillian Lacey’s “train of thought” after reading Flann O’Brien’s "At Swim-Two Birds".

The Wanderings of Ulick Joyce

1968

Behind the camera

Someone Must Be Trusted... poster
NR

Second film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. Roche combines 3 brief gems on equal pay, rape, and the myth of the virgin & the whore.

Someone Must Be Trusted...

1987

Someone Must Be Trusted... poster
NR

Second film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. Roche combines 3 brief gems on equal pay, rape, and the myth of the virgin & the whore.

Someone Must Be Trusted...

1987

No artwork available
NR

An androgynous person is climbing up a swaying tower of humans who hang in the air. Many drop into a sea of flies below them. The flies pick at their brains. At the top of the tower a lotus flower opens and radiates light.

Up

1970

Gotta Get Out poster
8.0

About a personal experience of claustrophobia and how to deal with it. When you can't have another cup of coffee or another brandy because you just gotta get on the plane. And there you are. And suddenly there's a flight attendant saying "good morning".

Gotta Get Out

1995

Gotta Get Out poster
8.0

About a personal experience of claustrophobia and how to deal with it. When you can't have another cup of coffee or another brandy because you just gotta get on the plane. And there you are. And suddenly there's a flight attendant saying "good morning".

Gotta Get Out

1995

No artwork available
NR

Based on themes arising from real life interviews, Touch Wood looks at the nature of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The action takes place over one night where we see a man preparing for bed. However instead of falling asleep he spends the time checking and rechecking lights, doors and clocks, obsessively securing the house for his night’s rest. Stylistically the animation highlights the divide between the character and his attempt to control his increasingly malevolent environment. The film explores the uneasy balance between the man’s desire to control his life and the compulsions that try to possess him.

Touch Wood

1996

No artwork available
NR

Capoeira is a Brazilian dance performed to African-based music. In a personal film collaboration between two friends, a part documentary, part docu-drama style explores the way this tropical dance is transformed when it reaches Britain.

Capoeira Quickstep

1992

The Wanderings of Ulick Joyce poster
5.0

A distinctive animated short inspired by Irish folk tales, made with assistance from the BFI Production Board. Set “long ago when men lived in caves” this tells the tale of Ulick, a would-be king, banished from his realm for his violent and unholy deeds and forced to wander through Ireland and the furthest reaches of his own mind. Inspired by Irish folk tales, the story emerged from director and animator Gillian Lacey’s “train of thought” after reading Flann O’Brien’s "At Swim-Two Birds".

The Wanderings of Ulick Joyce

1968

Murders Most Foul poster
NR

Third film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. Based on a real case and devised as a 'melodrama' set in a Crown Court.

Murders Most Foul

1987