Image: Grand Bassin (2018, Héloïse Courtois, Chloe Plat, Victori Jalabert, Adele Raigneau)
Doors Open 9pm
Please note: 15+
Tickets £7 / £5 concs
Best of the Next Programme 1 screens just before this one at 7:30pm. 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.
13 films, total running time 70 minutes.
Films Screening:
Tuna
A late-night supermarket cashier with a strange obsession is visited by a mysterious customer.
Ireland 2019 Dir: Cliona Noonan 6min
School: National Film School IADT
The Ostrich Politic
Ostriches carry on their daily activities burying their heads, believing it’s instinctive behavior. However, research proves otherwise.
France 2018 Dir: Mohamad Houhou 6min
School: Gobelins
Hole
Mo is an adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Mo spends a lot of time in their brain. Today, a hole started following them.
Canada 2018 Dir: Gil Goletski 6min
School: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Shadow Passage
A woman explores her own psyche through its manifestation in a sequence of identical, yet progressively smaller, rooms inhabited by multiple selves.
UK 2019 Dir: Ali Aschman 4min
School: Royal College of the Arts
A Gong
A seven year-old boy slowly comes to terms with his grandpa’s death during a traditional Taiwanese funeral.
France 2018 Dir: Zozo Jhen, Tena Galovic, Marine Varguy, Yen-Chen Liu, Ellis Ka-yin Chan 6min
School: Gobelins
Bubbles
A puppet grows frustrated with her puppeteer's bad habit.
Ireland 2019 Dir: Rachel Fitzgerald 3min
School: National Film School IADT
Hounds
The life of a dog, trained to act as human, changes when a pack of wild dogs gathers around his house.
Israel 2018 Dir: Ido Shapira and Amit Cohen 6min
School: Bezalel
Cosmos Express
A girl decides to leave this world. Her body and soul have a last conversation as she walks down the path of her life, one last time.
USA 2019 Dir: Mocong Yuan 7min
School: School of Visual Arts
You Used to Bring Me Flowers
Male and female relations are examined through the gesture of giving flowers.
Israel 2018 Dir: Nofar Schweitzer 5min
School: Bezalel
Grand Bassin
An afternoon at the swimming pool.
France 2018 Dir: Héloïse Courtois, Chloe Plat, Victori Jalabert, Adele Raigneau 6min
School: ENSI
Parasite
A stunning depiction of the conflict between human development and nature using abstract shapes and movement.
USA 2018 Dir: Yajun Shi 2min
School: Pratt Institute
Somewhere In-Between
An animator struggling to draw after the loss of her mum begins to see the frames of her own movements.
UK 2019 Dir: Luca Tagliarini 3min
School: Bournemouth
Now 2
Who's grooming whom? Scenes of puzzling new truths piercing through the foam veil.
USA 2019 Dir: Kevin Eskew 9min
School: CalArts
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.