Persuasive, illustrative and able to get over abstract details in attractive and compelling ways, animation is the perfect tool to document someone’s vision of the truth. These films – a selection of stylish and compelling short documentaries contain beautifully realised sequences and some of the most provocative images of LIAF 2015.
Join us after the screening for a Q&A with Emma Calder and Richard Wright (Everyone is Waiting for Something to Happen) and Martin Pickles (Ode to Joy and What is Animation?)
At Barbican book tickets
Everyone is waiting for something to happen. (Emma Calder, UK)
Prior to being diagnosed with bowel cancer Richard Wright, an artist/animator, had a social media persona that was characterised by annoying and anarchic humour. This is his story.
7’35, 2015
The Beast Inside (Drew Christie, USA)
A homeless teenager describes his challenges and celebrates the triumph of his creative self.
4’00, 2014
Baba (Joel Kefali, New Zealand)
A migrant reflects on the bad books, sausage rolls, social dance etiquette and the angst about capital punishment that he found when he arrived in his new home all those years ago
3’20, 2014
Food (Siqi Song, China/USA)
If food could talk about their own food choices this is what they would say.
3’30, 2014
Me and My Moulton (Torill Kove, Canada/Norway)
The story of a young girl growing up in Norway and her creative, unconventional and loving but hopelessly out-of-touch parents.
14’00, 2014
Ode to Joy (Martin Pickles, UK)
A short introduction to the life and work of animator Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth, a crucial figure in British animation.
3’50, 2014
A Portrait (Aristotelis Maragkos, Greece)
A line drawing elegantly describes the filmmakers grandfather’s life and death.
2’15, 2014
Psychedelic Blues (Drew Christie, USA)
“I got my psychedelic feet and my psychedelic shoes, I believe Lord O’Mama I got the psychedelic blues” – the story of how the freak folk band Holy Modal Rounders first got together.
3’15, 2015
Last Words (Yuwen Xue, UK)
A moving portrait of several terminal patients’ last words in a hospice.
3’25, 2015
Arlene (Farouq Suleiman, UK)
Arlene Garrison collapsed with a brain tumour in London 2006. Following an operation to remove it, Arlene woke up to a very different world.
7’30, 2015
What is Animation? (Martin Pickles, UK)
Veteran British animator Bob Godfrey answers the question “What Is Animation?” in his typically witty, iconoclastic and insightful way.
2’45, 2014
Hora (Yoav Brill, Israel)
The habit of hand-holding among gay and straight men in downtown Tel Aviv.
9’00, 2014
Table d’hote (Alexandra Levasseur, Canada)
A subtle & brutal indictment of meat production/consumption is explored in an unconventionally abstract approach to documentary.
2’15, 2014
Still Born (Asa Sandzen, Sweden)
A pregnant woman is forced to decide the fate of a child with a deformed heart. She prepares for delivery, but is that even possible? The heartache of longing for a child but losing her at birth.
10’00, 2014
Django’s Hand (Drew Christie, USA)
The story of Django Reinhardt, the inventor of gypsy jazz.
1’15, 2015
