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Devlin Crow - film director and artist After graduating from film school in Wales in 1994. Devlin animated and directed The Anatomist's Notebook, which won the Mayer Trencin Award for Craft at the International Art Film Festival Trencianske Teplice - Slovakia and was nominated for the Post Office Mc Laren Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Animation Award at the Meridiens - 3rd European Film Forum in France and went on a tour abroad to promote the best of animation, organised by the British Council. Klasky Csupo creators of The Simpsons, "The Anatomist is a beautiful film, we are very taken with it". His first professional animated short was for Channel Four/Arts Council, Expelling the Demon, starring Steven Berkoff and Lindsay Duncan with an original score by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was screened in 11 countries accompanying The Ring (the Japanese horror feature) in the theatrical UK screenings and won the Best Professional Film Debut at the Krok International Animated Film Festival and was premiered at Nick Caves Meltdown Festival at the Southbank, London in 1999. Screening and talk on the grotesque in animation, held at Tambaimo's Japanese artist's solo show at the Parasol Unit at the Foundation of Contemporary Art, London. Andy Serkis on Expelling, "Its like a moving Francis Bacon painting" Since then he has directed various films and worked with Christopher Lee (the actor) Julian Bleach M.C of Shockheaded Peter the Junk Opera and Toric in Terry Gilliam's feature Brothers Grimm, Sir Peter Blake (the pop artist), Sir John Tavener (the classical composer), Teresa Salguerio of the Portuguese world music band Madredeus, Andy Serkis (the actor) Jocelyn Pook composer for Stanley Kubrick's score for his last feature Eyes Wides Shut, the classical/comic actor Richard Briers and Arvo Part the Estonian classical composer Currently he is directing a 12 part film series Word Made Flesh which explores the beauty of the spoken word. The series features respected poets, actresses, singers, composers, writers and artists talking about their personal beliefs and influences. Sir Peter Blake the pop artist, Christopher Lee the actor and Sir John Tavener the English classical composer, Buffy Saint Marie, singer - songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist, Cornelia Parker sculpture and installation artist and Steve Bell the political cartoonist have been sitters for the series.