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Fair to say that people have been using the tools and methodologies of art as a platform for documentary making as long as they’ve been scratching images into rock walls. Cinema, one of humankind’s youngest artforms, was arguably delivered into the world as a documentary form when the Lumiere … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: ANIMATED DOCUMENTARIES

Who are all these people? They seem to be everywhere! Do you ever find yourself asking that question? I do – all the time! And I don’t really mean just the real people we all encounter everyday – they’re all real to one degree or another and although the weight of their reality on the gravity of … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: LOOKING FOR ANSWERS

Is there a better artform than animation for exploring, reimagining and redefining the environments in which we all must live, work and navigate? Put your hands back down – coming from us here at LIAF HQ it’s what you might call a ‘rhetorical question’. We already know the answer.  That … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: INTO THE DARK (and arguing with the ghost of Guy Debord)

The evolution of cinema (especially fictional cinema) has been thoroughly shaped by theatre, especially in terms of performance and the structuring of episodes [stories/narratives]. After all, many of the first film directors and actors came from theatre. The animated film, on the other hand, is … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: BEING HUMAN

It’s not that complicated when you think about it. Animations, especially those striving to break conventions, are suggestive of experiences of space not wholly held captive by narrative. They can achieve an evocation of space that captivates us as it makes meaning, giving locations for … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: FROM ABSURD TO ZANY

Animation – at least animation that strives to utilise the unique properties of animation – has its own metabolism. Metabolism is “the whole sum of reactions that occur throughout the body within each cell and that provide the body with energy. This energy gets used for vital processes and the … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: PLAYING WITH EMOTION