LIAF presents its annual tribute to the dirtiest fistful of animations of the year
Doors: 9.15pm (screening starts promptly at 9.30pm)
Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)
This is the second of two screenings on Saturday 3rd December. The first programme screens earlier at 7pm. Bundle tickets for both screenings are available for £14 (£10 concessions) via the link below.
The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 22) - the UK’s largest and longest-running animation festival - is back with 10 days of amazing screenings, talks and visits from local and international animators from November 25 to December 4. We are especially excited to return to our favourite venue the Horse Hospital with 3 nights and 6 extra special screenings and talks from several of the world’s best animators.
It’s back. LIAF’s annual walk on the wild side featuring the most twisted films to emerge this year. We dug deep to find the best and this is what you find when you go down that far. The ever-popular Late Night Bizarre programme is a bunch of anti-classics guaranteed to be as far away from Disney as it’s possible to get. A dirty fistful of 16 of the weirdest, wildest, most demented films hand-picked from the 2,400 entered.
Animation is such an unbridled artform and it unleashes some of the most unleashable imaginations on the planet. The temptation to ‘go wide’ is played out time and time again by these animators as they bring to the screen barely imaginable scenarios, crazy battling juxtapositions and boil-your-eyes imagery.
Expect crazy giant felines, parasitic slugs, experiments in lobotomy, malfunctioning bodies, granny porn and a whole lot more…
Programme:
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny Weeny Pocket [Japan 2022 Dir: Yoko Yuki 6’35]
A frenetic yet charming animation rhyme weaving together observations, experiments and bonkers musical interjections.
Catisfaction [Portugal 2022 Dir: Andre Marques Almeida 6’35]
A tired pet owner slumps into his favourite chair and drifts off to a world of giant felines and flying scooters.
Buzzkill [USA 2022 Dir: Peter Ahern 5’20]
After hitting it off on a blind date, Rick and Becky decide they're ready to go steady. But as the night heats up, an unexpected discovery reveals first impressions can be deceiving.
Rim [Germany 2022 Dir: Hagar Faibish 6’45]
A man with an unusual creature inside his brain watches TV looking for answers. What could possibly go wrong?
The Mischievous Pants [South Korea 2022 Dir: Lee Jong Hoon 3’50]
Has the man on the train fallen in love with a girl or a goat?
Only Human [USA 2022 Dir: Nolan J Downs 4’10]
A parasitic slug bites off more than is chewable.
Group Think (Brainbug) [Australia 2021 Dir: Lars Magnus Holmgren 1’30]
Has your mind escaped you? GroupThink ... The Lobotomy Of Free Expression.
Cosmohedron [USA 2022 Dir: Duncan Hatch 7’45]
A surreal journey through the interconnections between all things.
Granny X [USA 2022 Dir: DD Sheahan 5’55]
A nursing home resident achieves liberation, in the only way she can.
Oh So Convenient [Taiwan, Estonia 2022 Dir: Huei Jen Hung 4’40]
A man has a unique way of using toilet paper after pooping. A couple always orders food delivery because they don’t like getting dressed. Too much waste? Flush it down the toilet!
The Hork [USA 2021 Dir: Nicole Elizabeth Stafford 4’00]
In an alternate dimension, the stoic god of Power-Unrecognised waits for unrelenting Greed to come and consume her power.
Horse [USA 2022 Dir: Diana Yue Gong 4’00]
A struggle between inner chaos and reality explodes to create a world of cowboys, horses, and western landscapes.
A Goat's Spell [Germany 2022 Dir: Gerhard Funk 9’00]
A Child and its day. A conquest before breakfast, a clueless goat next to the house, aeroplanes in the sky. Then things fall apart. The goat seems to be the link if there is any link between anything at all.
The Wasps [UK 2022 Dir: Sebastiano Fossali 3’30]
A girl's face is infested with wasps.
Don't Die on Me [Israel 2022 Dir: Ori Goldberg 2’55]
A revolting portrayal of the noises inside a malfunctioning body, and the sweet, deadly silence that stops them.
Menagerie [USA 2022 Dir: Jack Gray 4’25]
Day after day, inhabitants of the Menagerie play out their daily lives like clockwork.