Finding Myself, by Joshua Stocker January 22, 2010

Can you imagine stop-motion sequence of 7000 separate photos? What? Oh, yes Joshua Stocker did it. He’s 19 (almost 20) years old creative artist based in London. Art became his main passion about 4 years ago. He started out with pens and pencils, and than progressed into digital art, then design, photography, and last year film and animation. He’s doing everything, right? He recently finished an Art Foundation in Stourbridge before moving to London. Joshua is currently studying Graphic Design Communication at The University of the Arts, London.

I found moving image to be far more inspiring and challenging than anything I had previously tried. A medium which could bring together everything I love.

“Finding Myself” was the first film he made. They were asked to create an illustration about something they were each looking for in life. For Joshua it was looking for his purpose, his place in the world, and the many metaphors you can take from that. The illustration is the piece of paper he writes on in the film. He didn’t have a video camera, but he experimented with his SLR to see whether creating a film from photographs would be possible. After storyboarding, the majority of the footage was shot in one day, with a few other pieces shot the following day.

Enjoy and please leave a comment below.

Written, Directed and Shot by Joshua Stocker
Starring Jimmy Kirk as Joshua Stocker
Music by The Album Leaf – Over the Pond

Find more about Joshua and his work at www.joshuastocker.co.uk (;