It is with great pleasure that Edge of Frame curated by Edwin Rostron returns to LIAF after a two year hiatus. This year Edge of Frame presents two programmes of experimental animation, taking the viewer on a journey of portals, windows and cosmic thresholds, into new realities and transitional spaces.
The first selection explores social and psychological realms, escaping from the gateways of technology and capitalism through the doors of perception, to return to our primordial beginnings. The second programme focuses on the portals within our landscapes, in the mutable surfaces of what we call nature. Old and new meet, mysterious energies flow and sites of connection and unification are revealed.
The works in these programmes blur the boundaries between past and present, landscape and technology, human and nonhuman, inner and outer. From brand new films to historical classics these two selections present a dazzling window onto experimental animation practice.
Curator Edwin Rostron will introduce the programme at our venue, Close-Up Cinema.
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Open Window – Karissa Hahn, USA
Windows open when a Digital 8 camera meets a mac computer screen.
2016 2’00
Remote Life Drawings – Cheng-Hsu Chung, Taiwan
An animated collage of abstract forms, mapping the shifting rhythms of the Taipei Artist Village and its surroundings.
2018 8’00
Vadim on a Walk – Sasha Svirsky, Russia
Finally, Vadim goes out of a tight square space where he has been used to sitting. He embraces the brave new world and his renewed life.
2021 8’00
Friends, Shopping and Food – Michael Lopez, USA
An experimental journey through memory, consumerism, and creeping horror.
2025 15’00
Deluge – Meejin Hong, USA
An ever-evolving landscape where the present inevitably coexists with the past. The slow stampede of a vulnerable mind.
2025 12’00
Asparagus – Suzan Pitt, USA
This candy coloured nightmare rocked audiences upon its release. A moving meditation on art and the cost of reproduction, Asparagus remains a benchmark of single frame intensity.
1979 18’00
Gaia’s Dream – Rose Bond, USA
Emerging from images which suggest primordial beginnings, a running horse becomes the focus of this rhythmic and abstract animation made by drawing and painting directly on 16mm clear film. The musicians of Gwinyai performed a soundtrack of traditional music from Zimbabwe expressly for the film.
1982 3’00
Our Funding Partners
With Special Thanks to The Elf Factory, official sponsor of LIAF 2025.
Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery.
Venue
Close-Up makes film culture and history accessible through its cinema programmes and Library. Established in 2005, Close-Up is the most comprehensive independent film resource in London. Find out more about Close-Up.
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