David Firth

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David Firth (born January 23, 1983 in Doncaster , United Kingdom ) is a British film artist and musician. He became known for his web series Salad Fingers .

Life

Firth distributes most of his work as a cartoonist over the Internet - including on the Newgrounds website , on Youtube and on his own websites. He makes his films available for free download and finances most of his productions through donations and the sale of T-shirts (“Everything on the Internet is free, why should it be any different with my films?”). Despite his work for the BBC, he himself considers television to be “a medium of the last century”.

Firth became known through his flash-animated series Salad Fingers , the first episode of which was released in 2004. Since 2009 Firth has produced several animated films for BBC Comedy and for the BBC Four series Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe . BBC Comedy presented its film Music Predictions 2009 as part of Best of Web Comedy 2009 . In 2012 Firth u. a. as a spokesman for the computer game The Cat Lady .

The International Film & Television Festival Cologne Conference showed Salad Finger in 2007 as part of the Internet Collection program . In 2009 the Hull Short Film Festival showed a retrospective of his films.

Films (selection)

  • Fat-Pie (2001-2004) - 4 episodes
  • Salad Fingers (2004-2019) 11 episode series
  • Burnt Face Man (2004-2010) 9 episode series
  • Spoilsbury Toast Boy (2004-2005) - 3 episodes
  • Sock (2005--2012) 5 episode series
  • Men from Up the Stairs (2006)
  • Pulch: The Good Times (2006)
  • Jerry Jackson (2004-2011) series
  • Drillbithead (2010-2011)
  • Cream (2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ " 2005 In Review: Pop Culture ." The San Francisco Chronicle. December 25, 2005.
  2. ↑ " Salad Fingers' Stream Of Consciousness Entertains Viewers ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . " The Daily Campus Online Edition. December 8, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / media.www.dailycampus.com
  3. ^ David Firth's Youtube Channel
  4. ↑ Interview with Salad Fingers Creator David Firth , Semanticon
  5. ↑ Interview with David Firth ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Axiom Magazine, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.axiommagazine.jp
  6. ↑ BBC Comedy Clips from David Firth David Firth Films on BBC Comedy
  7. ↑ BBC - Best of Web Comedy 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bbc.co.uk  
  8. ↑ International Film & TV Festival Cologne 2007
  9. ↑ David Firth cartoons on show at film festival  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. April 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk  
  10. ^ Salad Fingers' web legend David Firth has first retrospective at Hull International Film Festival Netribution 2009
personal data
SURNAME Firth, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British animation artist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Doncaster , UK