Part of the day-long Journeys into Experimental Animation programme at Whitechapel Gallery. One ticket gets you access to all three Journeys!
LIAF 2016 is very proud to partner with Edwin Rostron and Animate Projects on 6 expansive screenings and seminars devoted to championing experimental animation for The Edge of Frame Weekend, taking place at Whitechapel Gallery and Close-Up Cinema on 9th – 11th December.
A special day-long screening event, celebrating the vibrant field of experimental animation. From bold personal visions to intricate and visually stunning formal experiments, this expansive screening programme mixes contemporary animation by British and international artists with classic and rarely seen historical works. Showcasing animation at the cutting edge of moving image practice, the programme reveals connections and threads running through the many forms of experimental animation
Journeys into Experimental Animation features three screening programmes of international artists’ animation. Two of these are curated by Edwin Rostron of Edge of Frame, and one is a special guest-curated programme from Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart, co-directors of Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. Alexander and Edwin will introduce the programmes and a number of the filmmakers will be present.
Journey 2 is curated by Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré (Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation). Eyeworks Festival focuses on abstract animation and unconventional character animation, drawing on the lineage of avant-garde cinema as well as the tradition of classic character animation and cartooning. This specially curated programme features films selected from past Eyeworks screenings, and will be presented by festival co-director Alexander Stewart.
A programme of Eyeworks Directors Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré’s own film and animation work is showing as part of the Edge of Frame Weekend at Close-Up Cinema on Sunday 11th December, 8pm.
At Whitechapel Gallery buy tickets
Untitled (Oliver Laric, Germany)
Repetition, recycling, and reinvention. A rhythmic, morphing flow of graphic bodies.
6’00, 2014-2015
Trial Balloons (Robert Breer, USA)
“Like Breer’s other work, it is associative, and manages to simultaneously suggest spontaneity and elegance.” – Amy Taubin.
5’30, 1982
1984 Music for Modern Americans (Susan Young & Emma Calder, UK)
A film commissioned by and using the drawings of Eduardo Paolozzi. A non-narrative film focusing on Paolozzi’s themes about modern man.
12’00, 1984
Futon (Yoriko Mizushiri, Japan)
Wrapped in the futon… Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained…Everything melts pleasantly all together.
6’00, 2012
The Presentation Theme (Jim Trainor, USA)
A Peruvian prisoner of war finds himself outmanoeuvred by a hematophagous priestess. Based on a true story.
14’00, 2008
James Duesing, Maxwell’s Demon (James Duesing, USA)
In a world that has shifted to being information and service-based, industrialists are corralled on a reservation named Lorado, to sell plastic things as remnants of their past culture.
7’30, 1990
Tanka (David Lebrun, USA)
A cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
9’00, 1976
Light Weight (Stefan Gruber, Kevin Glick, & Leinors Allen, USA)
3’00, 1999
Two Space (Larry Cuba, USA)
Two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translations, rotations, and reflections) upon a basic figure or tile.
8’00, 1979
Hammam (Florence Miailhe, France)
Two young girls who are going to the baths for the first time, guide us through the labyrinth of steam baths, showers, and fountains.
9’00, 1992
