Oliver Harrison

Influential in motion graphics,[3][4] particularly in kinetic typography,[5] Harrison's work has been featured at Tate Modern,[6] The Barbican Centre and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

[7] Following his graduation from St Martins School of Art in 1988, Harrison's student film Amore Baciami - set to a 50s Italian pop song sung by Nuccia Bongiovanni - received much critical acclaim.

[8][9] The film featured animated typography closely syncopated with the voice, a technique that would come to characterize Harrison's work; described as 'the beautiful precise and unparalleled marriage of sound and picture'.

Part of the film was adapted for a long 90 second commercial called Letters of Love - a national campaign for The Royal Mail (Valentine's Day 1989).

The same year, Harrison signed up with Acme Filmworks[11] in Hollywood and continued to make commercials throughout the 1990s, creating spots for Nike, Inc., Marie Claire, P&O Ferries, The Independent newspaper, Molson Beer, Toyota, IBD and MTV[12] to name a few.

The film was screened at Tate Modern London has part of Thresholds of the Frame[16] and was featured in the Barbican Centre exhibition: Passionate Obsessions.

Described by Lucy Felbusch as 'devastating and beautiful' in Savage,[18] the film was also featured in the Italian magazine Artribune[19] and listed in the Creative Bloc 'must see examples of kinetic typography'.

Described as 'a sinister fairy-tale',[5] it starred Julian Bleach, Steve Smith, Will Strange, Jim Conway, Emma Hill, Dominic Cazenove and Gavin Molly.

Jordan Mooney, writing in The Cat on the Wall, said of the film: ' His work has a quality that carries the unusual themes and fantastical elements that reminds one irresistibly of Kubrick'.

[23] Harrison was commissioned by the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to animate a series of short films for the opera Dream of the Song written by Sir George Benjamin and featuring the celebrated countertenor Bejun Mehta.

Satan's Rats also played a one-off gig in HM Prison Long Lartin, where the band met John McVicar who was helping with the equipment.

The Photos spent much of the time gigging, playing in the early days with The Adverts, The Cure, John Cooper Clarke and The Fall and later toured the UK supporting The Undertones and Squeeze.