Plunge

Ellie Land is an internationally renowned, award-winning Animation Director and Researcher working in animation, whose practice has become increasingly collaborative and research-informed, most recently extending into immersive technologies. Her body of work investigates themes such as the failing systems supporting women’s health and well-being, placemaking and identity, and climate health through an ecofeminist lens, utilizing storytelling, person-centered narratives, and co-creation methods of production. She draws from and applies practices from animation, documentary, immersive 360 and VR, and illustration.
Her award-winning animated documentary films screen internationally at film festivals and exhibitions. Ellie is the long-term collaborator on MENOPAUSE REALITY, a series of VR films funded by Innovate UK and Digital Catapult.
Her current short BFI-funded animated documentary PLUNGE is produced by TYKE films and has its world premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival 2024. PLUNGE VR was selected for IDFA Forum 2022.
Her contributions to the feature film IRENE’S GHOST were nominated for a BIFA Award in 2018 and was cited as one of the best films of 2019 by The Guardian. BATHROOM PRIVILEGES, co-directed with Rupert Williams for the BFI, won the AHRC Research in Film (Animation) Award 2020.
Her current projects include GLACIES and Arts Council-funded ANTICIPATION OF BLISS, immersive site-specific installations made in collaboration with artist Lucy Wheeler.