• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
London International Animation Festival

London International Animation Festival

  • Home
  • About
    • Mission Statement
  • What’s on
    • The Festival
    • Entries
    • Schedule
    • Tickets & Venues
    • LIAF Tour
  • News
    • Archive
      • 2024
      • 2023
      • 2022
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2011
      • LIAF catalogues
  • Work With Us
    • Our Partners
    • Become a Partner
    • Donate
  • Youtube
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • InstagramInstagram
  • ThreadsThreads

LIAF 2015 Opening Night Gala screening: Barry Purves – The Naked Animator + Q&A (15)

October 1, 2015 by LIAF

Help us celebrate the opening of LIAF 2015 with a cracking onstage talk and screening from one of the giants of British animation – Barry Purves.

The Gala Screening has become a festival favourite – numbers are strictly limited. Book early to avoid heartbreak!

Barry Purves is one of the UK’s outstanding animation directors, with a career spanning 25 years, over 60 international awards (including BAFTA and Oscar nominations) and many lifetime achievement awards. Equally passionate about his theatre work, Barry’s films embrace the language of stage and his worldwide teaching on animation enhances his reputation as a raconteur. Barry will talk with unflinching honesty about the ups and downs of being an animator, the creative process involved and we’ll get a chance to look back at several of his multi-awarded short films, clips from his TV series and commercials.

At Barbican book tickets

Next (Barry Purves, UK)

Next, Barry Purves, LIAF, London International Animation FestivalBarry ‘s debut short film – a clever, mystical and magnificent tribute to the English language’s greatest poet. William Shakespeare, alone on stage, auditions for his life, in front of a rather unimpressed Peter Hall.

5’15, 1989

Screenplay (Barry Purves, UK)

Screenplay, Barry Purves, LIAF, London International Animation FestivalPresented as a Japanese Kabuki play, a narrator tells a tale of forbidden lovers who go against their families to be together.

10’50, 1992

Achilles (Barry Purves, UK)

Achilles, Barry Purves, LIAF, London International Animation FestivalThe stress of the Trojan War puts the already complex relationship between Achilles and Patroclus under further strain. Narrated by the great Derek Jacobi.

11’00, 1995

Tchaikovsky – an Elegy (Barry Purves, UK/Russia)

Tchaikovsky - an Elegy, Barry Purves, LIAF, London International Animation FestivalThrust into an empty room, Tchaikovsky is forced to revisit the traumas and successes of his life.

13’00, 2011

Plume (Barry Purves, France)

Plume, Barry Purves, LIAF, London International Animation FestivalA winged man, a fall, a hostile encounter, a life changed forever.

14’40, 2011

Filed Under: Schedule-archive

Footer

Contact

London International Animation Festival
25 Clonbrock Road,
London,
N16 8RS

info@liaf.org.uk

  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Environmental Responsibility Policy

Newsletter

Our Partners

ABAE
Animated Women UK
MIAF
My Air Bridge
BFI FAN
Arts Council England
Edge of Frame
Elf Factory
Film and Video Workshop
Karrot
NFTs
P Animate Projects
Shooting People
Skwigly
UAL Central St Martins
RCA
University of Greenwich

Copyright © 2025 · London International Animation Festival · Website by Primrose & Bee