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Over a decade in the making, Consuming Spirits is the hypnotic and elegiac first feature by award-winning animator Chris Sullivan. Set in a dreary Rustbelt town, the film follows late-night radio host Earl Gray, wilting violet Jenny, who cares for her foul-mouthed, Alzheimer's-stricken mother and … [Read more...] about Feature: Consuming Spirits (Chris Sullivan, 2012) (15)

To promote their book Bosnian Flat Dog, Swedish comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummified Marshal Tito in a refrigerator. They encounter a number of characters populating the post-Yugoslav indie cultural scene. As the journey … [Read more...] about UK Premiere Feature: Tito On Ice (Max Andersson & Helena Ahonen, 2012) (15)

Canada holds an iconic and unique position in the world of indie, auteur animation. Beside her network of world class schools and the iconic institution known as the National Film Board of Canada is a vast, diverse and outrageously gifted community of fiercely independents that stretches from one … [Read more...] about Canadian Indie Showcase 2 (15)

Animation, like childhood, can be full of wonder with the biggest pleasures being the simplest ones. This programme strips away all the soft-sell toy ads and the over-the-top blockbuster-style special effects and just delivers up a collection of wonderful films full of simple joys. These films are … [Read more...] about LIAF presents: Amazing Animations 3, Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds

Animation, like childhood, can be full of wonder with the biggest pleasures being the simplest ones. This programme strips away all the soft-sell toy ads and the over-the-top blockbuster-style special effects and just delivers up a collection of wonderful films full of simple joys. These films are … [Read more...] about LIAF presents: Amazing Animations 3, City Screen Picturehouse, York