This year’s London International Animation Festival commences with a retrospective of works by Reka Bucsi
Doors: 6.30pm (screening starts promptly at 7pm)
Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)
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.
Reka Bucsi, award-winning Hungarian independent animation filmmaker makes poetic, dreamlike short films often drawing upon nature and animals as its subjects with themes that have the potential to convey complex messages through distinct and delightful imagery. Her work has been described as grotesque, sarcastic, dramatic and poetic and can make you laugh and cry.
Having graduated from MOME Budapest animation department in 2013, her graduation film Symphony no. 42 was shortlisted for The Oscars. Her films have screened in competition at various festivals including Berlinale, Annecy, SXSW and Sundance. Réka’s film LOVE was nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards. Solar Walk won the Audi Short Film Award at the Berlinale 2018, was nominated at the Annie Awards for Best Short Film and is now part of The Criterion Collection. Réka was one of the Berlinale Shorts international jury members at the 2020 Berlinale. She was a speaker at Pictoplasma (NYC and Berlin), Pratt Institute NYC, FMX Germany and a guest teacher at California Institute of the Arts. Her clients include Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Netflix and FX Networks.
We are delighted to welcome Reka to LIAF to present a retrospective of her films and commissions and to chat about her work.
Programme
Stories in Place: Plante [Hungary, 2020, Dir: Reka Bucsi 2’05]
A moment of transition through animated flora captured through images from a slow lifestyle plant shop in the heart of Budapest.
HULU ident [Hungary 2020 Dir: Reka Bucsi 0’15]
Space-girl wanders through magical terrain.
Solar Walk [Hungary 2018 Dir: Reka Bucsi 21’00]
A film on kindness, creation and perspective.
Don't know where Going [Hungary/UK/Austria 2016 Dir: Reka Bucsi and Peter Millard 1’30]
An animated conversation between two animators, made without a plan 250 frames at a time.
LOVE [Hungary 2016 Dir: Réka Bucsi 15’00]
A short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through its impact on a distant solar system.
Adult Swim ident [Hungary 2020 Dir: Réka Bucsi 0’20]
Our great-great-great grandfather pulling himself out of the ocean for the very first time.
Beshemoth [Hungary 2019 Dir: Réka Bucsi, Nicole Stafford, Pernille Kjaer 5’20]
A day in the life of the greatest of all creatures.
Symphony no. 42 [Hungary 2014 Dir: Reka Bucsi 9’40]
47 observations of the irrational connections between human and nature.
Intermission [Hungary 2022 Dir: Reka Bucsi 4’55]
A projection of mental images, formed while listening to music. From the simple act of drawing a line, to the intricate movement and complex structure of animation that is able to self-generate.