The Tate takes lessons from MySpace.
The Tate's not the first museum to get into moviemaking -- the past year alone saw "Face," directed by Tsai Ming-Liang and commissioned by the Louvre, and Olivier Assayas' "Summer Hours," which at least started off as part of a project for the Musée d'Orsay. But the Tate is thinking bigger and way more mainstream. It's giving Aardman Animation four million pounds for an animated film that'll be co-created by children across the UK. The "Wallace & Gromit" folks won't just be overseeing a movie. Children will by able to attend workshops that will introduce them to drawing and animation skills, and they'll then help create a storyline, which a screenwriter will use to create a script that's "two-thirds complete, with holes in it to which children can contribute ideas," according to Aardman co-founder/chairman David Sproxton. (Example: a call for images reading "We need trees.") Elsewhere at the Guardian, Andrew...
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