Following the sell-out success of our partnership with Edge of Frame at our last four festivals, EOF return with three curated programmes of work at the intersection of animation, experimental film and artists’ moving image. Specially curated by Edwin Rostron – the London-based artist, animator, writer, curator, editor of Edge of Frame blog and festival juror these programmes celebrate this incredibly rich and vibrant, yet often marginalised and hard to define art form.
The works in this programme were all completed in the USA during 2019-20. This profoundly turbulent and uncertain time has left its mark on each of the works, but in different ways, and some more overt than others. Animation techniques can generate a visceral sense of destabilisation, an undermining of the fluid continuity we might expect from the moving image. They can also reveal what might lie behind the surface of one’s apparent reality; hidden patterns and disturbing truths.
Animation is an artform well suited to a time of crisis, enabling the world around us to be broken up, taken apart and remade. It can also provide a space for direct and uninhibited expression where fears, dreams, questions and memories can take form and co-exist without constraint. These films contain perceptive and sometimes painful resonances with contemporary America, but beyond that they are also some of the most vital and original recent animation works from anywhere on the planet.
Please note: Some films in this programme contain flashing imagery which might affect those susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
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With Special Thanks to the Arts Council England
The Blank Page (Jake Fried, USA)
One drawing reworked and scanned frame by frame. Ink and white-out on paper, sound design by the artist.
2020, 1min
Something to Treasure (Annapurna Kumar, USA/Canada)
Warm showers make me see stars.
2019, 2min
Private Properties (Lilli Carré, USA)
A forensic study of a private space. The film revolves around ideas of ownership of one’s environment, possessions and body.
2019, 3min
BLACK SQUARE (Peter Burr, USA)
A complex assault of optical illusions, highlighting limitations of the viewers’ own body and mind. What emerges is a portrait of an anxious divided society testing the boundaries of physical awareness.
World premiere
2020, 6min
2065 (Gabrielle Ledet, USA)
Mixing vibrant, drawn animations with home videos, family photos, and audio recordings of loved ones, 2065 is at once autobiographical and otherworldly.
2020, 8min
A Woman in Trouble is a Temporary Thing (Karen Yasinsky, USA)
A fictional portrait film including Victoria Legrand (of the band Beach House) set in a flat dystopian space.
2019, 7min
Now 2 (Kevin Eskew, USA)
Who’s grooming whom? Scenes of puzzling new truths piercing through the foam veil.
2019, 9min
Domo Dreams (Jack Wedge, USA)
A dreamhouse travels across space and time inside the subconscious of a small totoro cat.
2016-2020, 10min
Two Truths and a Lie (Yifan Jiang & James J.A. Mercer, USA)
After receiving a name from its grandmother, a baby is faced with the prospects of knowledge, love and death in a game of two truths and a lie.
European premiere
2019, 20min
Maelstrom (Jenny Perlin, USA)
The great whirlpool arrives and sucks everything into its centre, spitting out only fragments and noises. The shoreline is in view, but unreachable. The maelstrom pulls us under.
2020, 5min
Driftless (Jonah Primiano, USA)
Now only a memory, intimate moments with a family pet emerge and evaporate through delicate graphite drawings.
2019, 6min
