Drawing a speculative future of surveillance and police oppression, Faye Craig's Curfew presents a city on the brink of a draconian lockdown.
Governed by a malevolent state in cahoots with vampiric property developers and cyborg CCTV, the people are under pressure. Combining 2D animation, CGI and multiplane techniques, Curfew takes inspiration from jungle raves, graffiti watching, and Black British culture.
Curfew (2026)
Directed by Faye Craig
6 minutes
Commissioned through FLAMIN Animations
Festival screenings
2026
Brighton Animation Festival
Flatpack Festival, Birmingham
Faye Craig, Curfew (2026), stills
Curfew (2026), trailer
Faye Craig is a 2D animator and director based in London. She specialises in dynamic and lively animation, with a soft spot for sweet sweeping transitions. Faye's work often acts as a vessel of speech, enabling conversations surrounding marginalisation, power and the conditions of socio-economic disparity and political pressure. With a crafted visual style that drips at the edges, Faye’s practice shares the light and the dark to empower, embody and liberate the life of the Black, Beautiful and British.
Made while studying for an MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art, Faye’s graduation film Sour Days (2023) screened at festivals including the BFI Future Film Festival, Tricky Women Animation Festival and Cardiff Animation Festival, and was selected by Andrew Pierre-Hart as part of a screening programme at Whitechapel Gallery.
FLAMIN Animations is a commissioning programme for early-career Black and global majority* animators living in England. Launched by Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) in 2021, the programme aims to support artist animators as they take their first steps into a career working with the moving image, with development support and funding for a new work.
FLAMIN Animations is presented in partnership with the award winning London-based animation studio Blinkink.
