Image: Selfish (2019, Po-Chien Chen)
Doors Open 7pm, Screening Starts 7:30PM
Please note: 15+
Tickets £7 / £5 concs
Best of the Next Programme 2 screens just after this one at 9pm. You can buy tickets for both screenings for just £12 + booking fee.
Selected from 60 graduate showreels this is a look at the best student work from all around the world – the first step on the animation ladder for these talented filmmakers, and the first time their wild and wonderful imaginations have been unleashed.
15 films, total running time 74 minutes.
Films screening -
400MPH
In the Bonneville salt flats, a chimpanzee named Icarus tries to reach the ultimate speed of 400 MPH, thought to be impossible for land vehicles.
France 2019 Dir: Paul-Eugène Dannaud, Julia Chaix, Lorraine Desserre, Alice Lefort, Natacha Pianeti, Quentin Tireloque 5min
School: Supinfocom
My Mother's Eyes
A story about motherhood and loss in an abstracted world of childhood memory.
UK 2018 Dir: Jenny Wright 5min
School: Central St Martins
Medium Rare
Functional and aesthetic values in recurrent, yet questionable domestic scenarios.
USA/Italy 2018 Dir: Luca Cioci 5min
School: CalArts
Mr Wolf
What’s the time Mr. Wolf?
China, 2018 Dir: Jincao Li 5min
School; East China Normal University
I Am Here
Four women talk about their experiences of dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in this heartfelt, moving documentary.
UK 2019 Dir: Sorrel Milne 2min
School: Kingston University
Selfish
A chef notices a group of special guests. He decides to serve them a variety of signature dishes.
Canada/Taiwan 2019 Dir: Po-Chien Chen 2min
School: Sheridan College
Gravity
In a tiny town gravity is constantly changing. Rosa, being pulled up and down by the light and the heavy days, has to find something to grab on to.
Germany/Bolivia 2019 Dir: Matisse Gonzalez 10min
School: Baaden Wurtemburg
In Memory
A slowly undulating and moving depiction of the loss of a parent as told by three children.
USA 2018 Dir: Amit Miretzky 3min
School: RISD
Nestor
Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours, lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating.
UK 2019 Dir: Joao Gonzalez 6min
School: Royal College of the Arts
Forget-me-Not
When a lifelong friend departs, a stubborn old man has to face his inner fears in order to restore peace to his mind.
Denmark 2019 Dir: Katarina Lundquist 7min
School: The Animation Workshop
Cha
A power struggle between mother and daughter. Should she drink tea or something else?
UK 2019 Dir: Lok Tsoi 2min
School: Goldsmiths
Trois Francs Six Sous
During World War 2 a French Farmer hopes to see life again in the eyes of his mother who has been in a vegetative state since her eldest son disappeared.
France 2019 Dir: Clémence Ottevaere, Florence Blain, Louise Leblond, Varoon Indalkar, Morgane Ladjel, Hugo Valdelièvre-Rattier 7min
School: Supinfocom
Synchronicity
People come, people go – Yet everyone is moving in the same direction.
By sharing time, space and movement, we overlap and create a bigger picture.
UK 2018 Dir: Michelle Brand 4min
School: Royal College of the Arts
Critical Update
In a future world where everyone is constantly plugged in via AR visors the lines between what is real and what is not have become blurred.
UK 2019 Dir: Brogan Jones 6min
School: Central St Martins
In Her Boots
While her granddaughter is visiting, Hedi embarks on a hiking journey to the Alps, revealing the reason for her devoted attachment to her hiking shoes.
UK/Austria 2019 Dir: Kathrin Steinbacher 6min
School: Royal College of the Arts
The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2019) returns for it’s 16th edition to the Horse Hospital over 2 nights – Friday 6/Saturday 7 December – with 4 eclectic and inspiring screenings and talks with some of the most creative, eclectic and downright weird minds working in animation today.
Independent animation is very much alive and kicking and continues to thrive and develop with a breathtaking medley of styles, materials, techniques and genres. From hand drawn, paint on glass, collage and sculpture, to cut-outs, puppets, abstract and sand/salt – LIAF 2019 showcases all of this. Join us at the Horse Hospital and see these latest mini-masterpieces.
The London International Animation Festival is a 10-day event screening at 5 venues from November 29 to December 8. For full details on the LIAF 2019 programme please go to the website at www.liaf.org.uk.