The Day After the Party
2016 · 6m · UK
Directed by Diyala Muir
Genres: animation, drama, surrealism
Tones: melancholic, surreal, whimsical
An RCA graduation animation following a young woman through Brixton market the morning after a party, where surreal imagery — talking fish, weeping sunflowers, haunting grins — interpenetrates the mundane urban landscape, blending memory and anxiety into a continuous present.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The British Animation Awards Best Student Film prize marks this as the strongest in its graduation cohort; Muir's ability to sustain tonal ambiguity — the film is simultaneously comic and elegiac — distinguishes it from the typical RCA graduation exercise.
RCA grad animation, Brixton market, talking fish and weeping sunflowers. The British Animation Award win is meaningful — RCA grad films are a real lineage and this one earned its prize.
Diyala Muir's RCA grad film walks through Brixton market post-party with talking fish and weeping sunflowers bleeding into the documentary detail. Won British Animation Awards Best Student Film — and the sound design (Doug Haywood) is doing serious work.
Festivals
- British Animation Awards 2018, Best Student Film