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> Opening Night @ the Renoir,
including Phil Mulloy's feature 'Goodbye Mister Christie'
> Technique Focus - 'Scratch' Film with guest
Steven Woloshen
> The Twisted Tales of Felix The Cat
> Autour de Minuit Showcase
> International Programmes (in competition)
> British Showcase
> Animate TV Retrospective
> Animated Documentaries
> 'Relationships': Animated documentaries discussion
> SIGGRAPH Wrap-Up
> Children & Families Programmes (2-7yrs,
8-14yrs)
> Late Night Bizarre
> Panorama Programme Series
> Animated Music Videos
> Best of the Fest
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Opening Night @ the
Renoir
UK Premiere: Goodbye Mr Christie
Come and help us open the festival in style. We
take a collection of the hottest films from competition, mix them
with some of our favourite classics from the special programmes, add
in a glimpse of the top new British films and meet the festival’s
special guest from Canada – Steven Woloshen – and our
own British animation legend
Phil Mulloy, who will introduce the first public screening on British
soil of his debut animated feature ‘Goodbye Mister Christie’.
> CURZON
RENOIR | Monday 30 August | 6.30pm |
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Technique
Focus – “Scratch” Film
Scratch film (or ‘direct-to-film’)
is, by any definition, a painstaking way to create animation. Scratching
images directly into film stock takes a steady hand and a mystical
grasp of ‘visual rhythm’. Len Lye and Norman McLaren were
the earliest, and most important, exponents of the form but modern
day animators such as Richard Reeves and Steve Woloshen (both long-time
LIAF favourites) continue to create stunning examples of the technique.
This programme combines a selection of outstanding recently released
‘scratch’ films with some of the finest classics. The
programme will include a collection of historical classics and recently
released films in competition.
> CURZON RENOIR | Monday 30 August |
9.15pm |
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The Twisted Tales
of Felix The Cat
In its time, Felix The Cat was easily the world’s
most famous animated cartoon. Our research into New York animation
reminded us just how big a deal (and how much fun) Felix was. The
best Felix cartoons depicted a world in which nothing was ever quite
as it seemed. Everything had an edge and Felix straddled the excesses
of the swinging jazz era and the innocence of cinematic cartoons with
consummate ease. Loved for more than 75 years, Felix The Cat is a
classic in the truest sense of the word and for every episode that
contains an eye-popping narrative audacity there is another that depicts
the equally startling simplistic innocence of the age in which Felix
ruled.
> HORSE HOSPITAL | Sunday 5 September |
2.00pm |
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Autour de Minuit Showcase
Autour de Minuit is one of the most interesting
animation and production houses in Europe. Their modest, cramped Parisian
office is home to an eclectic stable of animators including last year’s
LIAF guest Edouard Salier, Nieto and H5. On top of this, Autour de
Minuit acts as a distribution hub for a stunning roster of European
animators. From this treasure trove LIAF has sourced some of our favourite
films over the years – “Dix” (Bif - France), “Plasticat”
(Simon Bogojevic Narath - Croatia), “Obras” (Hendrick
Dusollier – France) and “Fast Film” (Virgil Widrich
– Austria) to name just a few. They’re even producing
Rosto’s latest opus “The Monster Of Nix” which we’re
obviously keeping a very close eye on. During a recent visit we started
flicking through their rolodex and have curated this collection of
classics from their golden archive PLUS a sneak preview of some works
in progress!!
> HORSE HOSPITAL | Thursday 2 September |
9.00pm |
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International Programmes
(Competition)
The backbone of the LIAF line-up. These screenings
gather together the very best recently released short, auteur animations
from the 2,000+ submissions we receive from 30+ countries. The films
cover every imaginable style and genre. In addition to five programmes
of eclectic individual films, the competition programmes will also
feature screenings that focus specifically on Digital, ‘Long
Shorts’ and Abstract films.
All screening at CURZON RENOIR
> Int 1: Tuesday
31 August | 7.00pm
> Int 2: Tuesday 31 August | 9.00pm
> Int 3: Wednesday 1 September | 7.00pm
> int 4: Wednesday 1 September | 9.00pm
> Int 5: Thursday 2 September | 7.00pm
> Int 6: Friday 3 September | 7.00pm
> Int 7, Digital: Saturday 4 September |
9.00pm
> Int 8, Abstract: Saturday 4 September
| 5.00pm
> Int 9, Long Shorts: Friday 3 September
| 9.00pm |
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British Showcase
One of our most popular and important programmes.
Showcasing British animation is what LIAF loves to do best and the
session will feature a collection of the best, recently released British
animated shorts and will present local work in all of its diverse
glory. Many of the animators attend the screening and this is your
chance to see where animating in Britain is at and to meet some of
the art form’s creators.
> CURZON RENOIR | Saturday 4 September
| 7.00pm |
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Animate TV Retrospective
Established in 1990, AnimateTV is a unique collaboration
between Channel 4 and The Arts Council England,
selecting projects from an annual, national open call for
innovative and risk-taking experiments in animation.
AnimateTV has commissioned work by many of the key
figures in British animation including the Quay Brothers, Kayla Parker,
Paul Bush, Andrew Kötting, Tim Macmillan, Petra Freeman, and
many more. The screening marks the publication of AnimateTV: 20 Years
of Experimental Animation from the UK, a limited edition retrospective
collection of 23 films, and an illustrated booklet with an essay by
Adam Pugh.
There will be a short panel discussion after the screening, chaired
by Gareth Evans.
> HORSE HOSPITAL | Friday 28 August |
6.30pm |
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Animated Documentaries
When you think about it, animation is a great
tool for creating documentaries. Perhaps the camera couldn’t
be present during the action; perhaps the action is invisible to
a live action camera or maybe the documentary ‘story’
just needs some extra special style to make it compelling or easier
to understand. This collection of films makes best use of the fluid
and imaginative properties of animation to get their stories across.
> CURZON RENOIR | Sunday 5 September |
5.00pm
'Relationships'
Animated documentaries discussion
- What happens when the real
meets the unreal?
'Relationships' - a hybrid, animated-documentary is a broadcast
first: a fully animated 50 minute documentary film commissioned
for prime time BBC 2 about people undergoing relationship counselling.
The session will include pre-release clips from this stunning and
intimate film (due for broadcast in early 2011) and will involve
a discussion with the filmmakers explaining the production process
from initial idea through to conception. The team includes multi-award-winning
animation director Jonathan Hodgson and animation producer, Jonathan
Bairstow
from Sherbet studios. The film was conceived, produced and directed
by documentary-maker and BAFTA winner Zac Beattie. Executive producer
is Nick Mirsky (BBC).
> HORSE HOSPITAL | Friday 27 August
| 7.00pm |
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SIGGRAPH Wrap-Up
SIGGRAPH is without doubt one of the most important
gathering points for the international digerati. Whether it is short
films, ads, software demo reels, trailers or music videos, SIGGRAPH
exists to bring the finest digital animators and their work together.
This year, we bring the very best works from SIGGRAPH Asia and the
‘mainland’ USA SIGGRAPH (held in New Orleans) to the big
screen.
> HORSE HOSPITAL | Friday 27 August | 9.00pm |
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Children & Families
Programmes
Two programmes of extra-special films selected
for our most extra-special audience – plus whichever grown-ups
they want to bring along. Suitable for 0-6 year-olds and
7-14 year-olds, these films bring the wonder of animation onto the
big screen. They’re entertaining, thought provoking, colourful
and enchanting – without a toy or games ad in sight!
0-6 years
> HMVCurzon Wimbledon | Sat 4 September
| 10.30am
> The Rio Cinema | Sat 4 September | 1.30pm
7-14 years
> The Rio Cinema | Sat 4 September | 3.30pm
> HMVCurzon Wimbledon | Sun 5 September
| 10.30am |
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Late Night Bizarre
When your mailbag fills with more than 2,000 short
animated films, as ours does each year, there’s going to be
some pretty ‘wrong’ moments. This LIAF favourite brings
together a collection of the strangest, most mind-expanding indescribables
from that mailbag and puts them up on the big screen where we can
all have a good look at them. Some are fall-over funny, some are outlandishly
odd, some are just impenetrably imponderable. Together, they are Late
Night Bizarre. A LIAF tradition nowadays and a reminder – if
one is needed – that animation knows no imaginative boundaries!
> HORSE HOSPITAL | Saturday 28 August | 10.00pm |
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Panorama Programme
Series
LIAF now receives more than 2,000 entries each
year and there are a lot of fantastic films that for one reason or
another don’t make it past the consensus of the jury and into
competition. A collection of these ‘must-see’ films get
their big screen opportunity in our Panorama series. This year, three
short programmes lined up in quick succession on a single night will
feature the best of these gems – a ‘festival within a
festival’.
> HORSE HOSPITAL | Sunday 29 August
PANORAMA 1: 7.00PM
PANORAMA 2: 8.15PM
PANORAMA 3: 9.30PM |
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Animated Music Videos
Music videos have long made great use of animation
and special effects but even the best of these don’t always
play that well embedded in regular competition programmes. Here are
20 of the world’s best and most innovative animated videos from
the last year.
> HORSE HOSPITAL | Saturday 28 August
| 8.15pm |
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Best of the Fest
Screening the highlights of LIAF as selected by
our fabulous judging panels and audience. Awards are given for the
best film in each session, ‘Best British Film’ and the
overall ‘Best Of The Festival’. This joyously unpredictable
collection of highlights from the week-long festival will be the last
chance to catch these films before we pack them all up and send them
home!
Tickets get snapped up quickly... so remember to book nice
and early!
> CURZON
RENOIR | Sunday 5 September | 7.00pm + repeated @ 9.00pm |
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