LIAF, Author at London International Animation Festival https://liaf.org.uk/author/liaf Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:10:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cropped-LIAF-Favicon-32x32.jpg LIAF, Author at London International Animation Festival https://liaf.org.uk/author/liaf 32 32 LIAF 2022: And the winner is… https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-and-the-winner-is Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:23:03 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15568 Best Film of the Festival Award: The Dog Apartment – Priit Tender Best British Film Award: Shackle – Ainslie Henderson Best Abstract Film Award: Sphere – Wataru Iwata Best Sound Design Award: Luce and the Rock – Bram Meindersma (Dir. Britt Raes) Best Original Score Award: Zoon – David Kamp (Dir. Jonatan Schwenk) Best Music Video Award: […]

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]]> LIAF 2022: Meet the Judges https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-meet-the-judges Fri, 02 Dec 2022 22:06:53 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15553 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 are honoured to welcome the following judges. International Competition Programmes and British Showcase Judges […]

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]]> LIAF 2022 Article: Being Human https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-article-being-human Sat, 26 Nov 2022 22:08:39 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15482 “Every spectator is a plotter, if he tries to explain a word (to know!)”of mine has a prosthetic leg, and he has a 2½ year old daughter. It’s my gift to her, I wanted her to have a film where she can see someone just like her dad, being part of this world just like […]

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]]> LIAF 2022 Article: Looking for Answers https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-article-looking-for-answers Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:12:07 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15530 Couldn’t quite shake the feeling that we hadn’t finished dancing with the ‘real’ in the intro back at Programme #2 (Playing with Emotion) so let’s pick up that thread again here. Alternative explanation for this opening paragraph is that the introductions were written out of sequence this year and what should have been a direct […]

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]]> LIAF 2022 Article: Into the Dark https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-article-into-the-dark Sat, 26 Nov 2022 16:58:40 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15526 Let’s invent a new word. Heterotopia. No, that’s already a word and, no, it’s not a euphemism for the Playboy Mansion, the name of the hottest 70’s disco in Blackpool, a misspelling crafted by some idiot archaeologist for a mythical long lost Greek city or a psychosis induced by binging too many American sitcoms. It’s […]

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]]> LIAF 2022 Article: From Absurd to Zany https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-article-from-absurd-to-zany Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:44:50 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15476 What is is? What is the use of is? When you think about it, the enemy of is might just be if. And, perhaps, the antidote to the power of is is how. This probably rushes right past English scholars but animators understand this stuff at an instinctual level . That’s what makes them such […]

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]]> LIAF 2022 Article: Playing with Emotion https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-article-playing-with-emotion Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:49:03 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15472 It turns out that – in animation  the problem with ‘orthodox’ might just be that real is not real enough. If you have never heard of Gunther Anders you are far from alone – and it probably also means you don’t speak German. And yet, Anders was remarkable in so many ways. He referred to […]

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]]> LIAF 2022 Article: Abstract Showcase https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-article-abstract-showcase Tue, 22 Nov 2022 19:47:14 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15458 Let’s take a different approach to introducing LIAF’s annual showcase of abstract and experimental animation this year. We want you to meet somebody who helped get us to where we are right now. Valé Leonard Lipton. A lot of you probably do not recognise the name but all of you will know of at least […]

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]]> LIAF 2022 Article: Animated Documentaries https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-article-animated-documentaries Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:12:57 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15486 Three quid – couldn’t believe it. Rummaging through the deepest entrails of a second-hand book store a couple of years ago there was a copy of the 1951 edition of ‘Documentary Film’ by Paul Rotha in excellent condition. This was the third updated edition of a book widely regarded as the authority on British documentary […]

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]]> LIAF 2022 Article: Long Shorts https://liaf.org.uk/liaf-2022-article-long-shorts Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:10:34 +0000 http://www.liaf.org.uk/?p=15493 “Since there are no solutions, there are no problems.” Ahhhh yes, it’s hard to have a LIAF in which we don’t invoke the mutterings of the great R Mutt, Marcel Duchamp. It’s not really a rule here at LIAF HQ but if you’re talking about an artform that requires a gymnastical imagination to conjure great […]

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