Kim Noce, Love in Idleness

Love in Idleness by Kim Noce is an animated

film commissioned for the Still Shakespeare

Series as part of the consortium

Shakespeare400. This consortium of

leading cultural, creative and educational

organisations was coordinated by King’s

College London to mark the 400th

anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in

2016. Noce’s film for the Still Shakespeare

Series was developed during workshops

supported by the Cultural Institute at King’s

College London where the invitation was to

create a film based on research into iconic

Shakespearean images. In particular to

think about that way that certain well-known

images have been absorbed into a shared

cultural memory. The resulting work: Love

in Idleness is an authored re-imaging of a

scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

when a quarrel with her husband leads to a

punishment for Titania who is made to love

a donkey. Revisiting this story from a

feminist lens Love in Idleness presents an

empowered Titania who takes ownsership

of her body. Made with charcoal on paper;

the animation is composed of a series of

drawings constantly erased and retraced

over a 9 month period. The film went on to

screen at over 35 major festivals including

Animafest, Zagreb; Encounters, Bristol;

London Short Film Festival and MIAF,

Melbourne supported by Film London’s

Artist Moving Image Network FLAMIN.