Dave McKean

A documentary that explores what it means to be an artist and why it's important to pursue your passion- even in the face of failure.

The making-of documentary for Dave McKean's film "Luna."

Renowned artist and filmmaker Dave McKean (MirrorMask) brings his distinctive blend of live action and gorgeously wrought animation to this dreamlike reverie about four people whose weekend idyll in an isolated English seaside home becomes an opportunity for spiritual healing.

7.1/10
5%

Film version of the 72 hour Passion play performed in Port Talbot, Wales during Easter 2011

5.3/10
7.1%

Adobe’s Photoshop program is demonstrated within the context of a photo shoot in a rather clever way.

An abstract film, collecting together the 6 rooms Dave McKean made for Chris Petit to reshoot, cut-up, and generally abuse, in pursuit of images for his film 'Asylum', made in collaboration with the writer Iain Sinclair.

Mr. Punch is left in charge of the baby. When Judy returns, the baby is dead. This is only the first murder. Others follow as this live action version of the children's favourite Punch & Judy unfolds.

A young girl is woken in the night by a noise in her house. Unable to get back to sleep, she starts to worry about anything and everything.

In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home

6.8/10
5.4%

A man wanders around Venice, still bruised from a failed marriage, lost in an empty city, finding old books, memories, and a momentary ghost.

6.9/10

A live performance at a jazz club by Iain Ballamy and Stian Carstensen, which McKean later added visual effects to.

A short film by Dave McKean.

Created for MTV to be shown a year after the events of September 11, 2001, based on a still image Dave McKean created for an artist’s book of responses to the same events.

A visual interpretation accompanying a reading of William Shakespeare's titular sonnet.

A short film by Dave McKean made for the 7th Raindance Film Festival.

A music video for opera singer Izzy.

God created the world in seven days, but only after he couldn't put it off any longer.

9/10

A short documentary about Dave McKean's process of creating an image.

Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below. Pursued by the murderous Messrs. Croup and Vandemar, Door and Richard with the help of Hunter and the Marquis de Carabas, attempt to find the Angel Islington, who knows the secret behind the murder of Door's family, and possibly a way for Richard to go home.

7.2/10

A music video for the band Buckethead.

A pilot for a never made feature length film, about a dying movie director.

A short film by Dave McKean.