Music video for The Beatles, I'm Only Sleeping. Commissioned in 2022 to accompany the re-release of Revolver. Winner of the 2024 Grammy for Best Music Video.
The Beatles – I’m Only Sleeping
This is Em Cooper's oil-paint animation showreel, giving a quick overview of her work.
Showreel
TV Ad for Berghaus. An escape to the countryside.
Berghaus – Time to Get Out
Emmy nominated and Peabody Award winning ITVS feature documentary following poet and activist DJ Savarese - a young autistic poet and playwright on a journey to become one of America's first non-speaking autistic students to attend university.
Deej
Critically acclaimed BBC Scotland feature documentary directed by Eric Steel exploring the extraordinary life of Scottish flymaker Megan Boyd, weaving oil-painted animation with live action.
Kiss The Water
An installation for Turner Contemporary, Margate: Em Cooper in collaboration with composer Jim Perkins. Immersive moving oil-paintings accompanied by live performance of the score.
Emergence
Premiering at Sundance 2013, a collaboration between Em Cooper and artist Anna Cady: Sierra Leonean MP Bernadette Lahai struggles for gender equality in a political environment shadowed by patriarchy and corruption.
30% Women & Politics in Sierra Leone
Kapka Kassabova captures the essence of the emotional world of Tango dancing in her memoir. This short film accompanies the release of the book.
Twelve Minutes of Love
Presented at the Freud Museum: Shifting subjectivity between a mother and daughter.
The Nest
'Later, she sat me in front of a large mirror…' In conjunction with Granta Magazine, a response to Maja Hrgović’s story of a passionate encounter between two women.
Zlatka
Presented at the Freud Museum, the film that became Em Cooper's manifesto: Shot from the point of view of a newborn baby, we encounter the world from the preverbal perspective of the infant.
Laid Down