Come and celebrate the opening of LIAF 2018 with a very special event – an evening with two of the most entertaining and talented young animators working in the UK today.
Insane pigeons, a misguided monkey, the existential crisis of an animated GIF, stifled musicians, the poetry of Robert Burns and fracking are just some of the characters and subjects tackled in the animated worlds of Scotland’s most dynamic double-act: Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson.
Graduates from Edinburgh College of Art’s animation degree course in 2011 and 2012, Will and Ainslie’s worldwide reputation has a bulging awards cabinet as testament to their talent, including two BAFTAs, two Mclaren Awards a British Academy Award, a nomination for the Cartoon D’Or and almost 50 awards at festivals around the world.
Under the guise of whiterobot.co.uk they work together as freelance writers, directors and animators on film, television, music video, web & interactive projects.
Always on the lookout to diversify their work, for the last 3 years they have been working on a feature produced by the Scottish Documentary Institute called Dom about a small animated cat that manifests out of a cancer scare – a grassroots story about cancer, how it shakes a family, how you can internalise your feelings, and how art is used as a form of escapism.
The London International Animation Festival is proud to present a career-spanning retrospective of their inventive, emotional, hilarious and fundamentally entertaining collective of work.
For this very special LIAF 2018 event, Will and Ainslie will join us onstage to discuss the many facets of their award-winning careers in animation and screen many of their most celebrated films including a sneak peak of their forthcoming feature ‘Dom’.
The Gala Screening has become a festival favourite – numbers are strictly limited. Book early to avoid heartbreak!
At Barbican book tickets
It’s About Spending Time Together (Ainslie Henderson, UK)
A very moving and long-overdue apology to Ainslie’s brother Oliver.
Winner of the BAFTA New Talent Award 2012
2010, 3min
The Pigeons’ Tour of Scotland – Hawick (Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson, UK)
Pigeons’, Ainslie & Will, are taking in Scotland’s sights and seeking inspiration. Ains teaches Will the Hawick tongue.
2016, 3min
The Making of Longbird (Will Anderson, UK)
A behind-the-scenes look at the battle of all battles raging between an animator and a character that just won’t do what it is commanded to.
Winner of multiple international awards including BAFTA 2013
2011, 15min
I Am Tom Moody (Ainslie Henderson, UK)
A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician, wracked with self-doubt, as he struggles to sing.
2012, 7min
Scroogin on a Greg (Will Anderson, UK)
Pigeon pushing smoking.
2012, 1min
Monkey Love Experiments (Ainslie Henderson & Will Anderson, UK)
A misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon.
2014, 9min
The Infinity Project (Will Anderson, UK)
Please support independent animation and help save these forgotten, malformed and starving drawings.
2015, 3min
Fracking. It’s Fucking Brilliant (Ainslie Henderson & Will Anderson, UK)
Scotland’s smartest pro-Fracking campaigner tells it like it is.
2014, 2min
The Pigeons’ Tour of Scotland – Ayr (Ainslie Henderson & Will Anderson, UK)
Pigeons’, Ainslie & Will, are taking in Scotland’s sights and seeking inspiration. This time, they land on Robert Burns house and develop their poetry skills.
2017, 2min
James ‘Moving On’ (Ainslie Henderson, UK)
Death as a birth in a world of string. Music video for the band ‘James’.
2014, 4min
My Best Friend ‘Explodes’ (Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson, UK)
Two reflexive animated characters cling to sanity inside the changing parameters of their world. The first of three short films made for ‘Adult Swim’.
2018, 1min
Have Heart (Will Anderson, UK)
A looping animated GIF has an existential crisis.
BAFTA nominated 2017
2017, 12min
My Best Friend ‘Rewinds’ (Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson, UK)
Two reflexive animated characters cling to sanity inside the changing parameters of their world. The second of three short films made for ‘Adult Swim’.
2018, 1min
Dom (feature film teaser trailer) (Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson, UK)
Cancer strikes a young animator’s mother, propelling him into finding emotional solace in a curious cat called Dom.
2018, 2min
Stems (Ainslie Henderson, UK)
A eulogy to the short life span of stop-motion animation puppets.
BAFTA Scotland winner 2015
2015, 2min
Work-in-Progress: Shackle (clip) and Betty (clip) (Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson, UK)
Clips from two ‘work-in-progress’ films.
2018, 5min
My Best Friend ‘Ends’ (Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson, UK)
Two reflexive animated characters cling to sanity inside the changing parameters of their world. The last of three short films made for ‘Adult Swim’.
2018, 1min
