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Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player. Great album really. A good while prior, Reggie Dwight had been down to the Births, Deaths & Marriages office to hand in the paperwork for his name change to Elton John. 'Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player' was the initial jet-boost to a career … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024 ARTICLE: BEING HUMAN

“All Nature is but art, unknown to thee, all chance, direction, which thou canst not see; discord harmony not understood, all partial evil universal … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024 ARTICLE: FROM ABSURD TO ZANY

“Reality is for people who can’t cope with art.” It’s hard to be precise about who originally coined that phrase and in truth (truth, of course, being by definition a form of reality) it’s the kind of phrase that was probably organically hatched by multiple scribes and oracles. Artist, sculptor, … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024 ARTICLE: PLAYING WITH EMOTION

The Vibe – Be Open To Your Inner Worringer: Another Vector To The Appreciation Of Abstract Animation Len Lye, Dwinell Grant, John Whitney, Oskar Fischinger, Robert Breer, Ed Emshwiller and Norman McLaren……. the names pour forth from the introduction to Robert Russett and Cecile Starr’s seminal … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024 ARTICLE: ABSTRACT SHOWCASE

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 … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024: MEET THE JUDGES

MA Directing Animation students at the National Film & Television School have been creating our official festival trailers for the past 14 years! During that time, we've been treated to hand-drawn, stop-motion, pixilation, claymation, puppet, rotoscoping, 3D, hybrid animation... so many … [Read more...] about LIAF 2024: The making of the trailer