Stuart Forrest at Design Indaba 2017

Film & Animation/2017/26 min/Reel № 17.001

ByStuart Forrest

How Stuart Forrest built the award-winning Triggerfish

Inspiration Is Nothing Without Action/Recorded 2017

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Stuart Forrest takes film & animation as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in South Africa in 2017, the conversation is grounded in Stuart's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Triggerfish CEO talks Revolting Rhymes, endurance in the animation industry and inspiring empathy in young people.

Stuart Forrest. Image: Kane Croudace

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Stuart Forrest

Cape Town/South Africa

Triggerfish Animation studio CEO Stuart Forrest is the producer of Africa's two most successful film exports: "Adventures in Zambezia" and "Khumba".