Archives for 2021

Each year we search for the finest panel of judges: educators, independent animators, producers, authors, curators and more. All are experts in their field and all possess an informed and exploratory eye for excellence in the animation world. This year we were honoured to welcome a carefully … [Read more...] about LIAF 2021: Judges Award Statements

Best of the Festival Award: Easter Eggs - Nicolas Keppens Best British Film Award: Affairs of the Art - Joanna Quinn Best Abstract Film Award: Hand - Ho Tsz Wing Best Sound Award: Anxious Body - Yuka C. Honda (Director: Yoriko Mizushiri) Best Original Score Award: The … [Read more...] about LIAF 2021: And the winner is…

At Hackney Picturehouse book ticketsONLINE: book tickets or buy a pass The reason this programme exists is because the LIAF Audience are smarter than the average bears. We’ve talked in the past about the relative risks that longer films face when they go out into the big wide world of … [Read more...] about LIAF 2021 Article: Long Shorts by Malcolm Turner

At Hackney Picturehouse book ticketsONLINE: book tickets or buy a pass  The similarities between animation and poetry are as obvious as they are under-recognised. An animated film has vastly more in common with a poem than it does with a live-action short film or a piece of short … [Read more...] about LIAF 2021 Article: Looking for Answers by Malcolm Turner

At Hackney Picturehouse book ticketsONLINE: book tickets or buy a pass  One of the relentlessly tedious parts of this job is dealing with the wobbly certainties exuded by the live-action lot who prattle on and on about their daily existential struggles and the creative hernias they … [Read more...] about LIAF 2021 Article: Animated Documentaries by Malcolm Turner

At Hackney Picturehouse book tickets ONLINE: book tickets or buy a pass   Even for us this is a bit of a stretch – at least at first glimpse. But this odd stepping off point for ‘Into The Dark’ kind of appeared out of the light so let’s see where this takes us. If you’re reading this then … [Read more...] about LIAF 2021 Article: Into the Dark by Malcolm Turner