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![Disrupting the Narrative, LIAF, London International Animation Festival](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LIAF-2022-Programme-Slides-Disrupting-the-Narrative-HD.jpg)
Disrupting the Narrative brings together 10 exciting filmmakers that are doing just that by using innovative animation techniques to explore a wider framework about and beyond race. The films celebrate the rich cultural diversity of black voices and British lives using animation, documentary, and avant-garde experimental techniques to explore themes of identity, race, family, cultural taboos, genre, gender and the shared joy of play that pushes the art form to the outer limits.
Hand-drawn animation exists side by side with digital animation, documentary footage with scratch animation, stop-motion clashes with collage, experimental with figurative – unravelling a series of surprising stories for greater understanding of differential perception across different classes and cultures around the world.
This thought-provoking collection of films highlights an important, and under-acknowledged, area of narrative and non-narrative animation by Black British and ethnically diverse filmmakers working in the animation industry today.
There will be a panel discussion after the screening with filmmakers Osbert Parker, Mary Martins, Ezra Myers, Jessica Ashman and Isabel Barfod moderated by Debbie Meniru (at the Barbican only).
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Disrupting the Narrative (Black voices, British lives) was co-curated with Osbert Parker – BAFTA and Emmy nominated Director and Ambassador for FLAMIN at Film London.
Dawta – Jessica Ashman, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Dawta, Jessica Ashman](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Dawta-1-1024x575.jpg)
Inspired by archival research into trans-racial adoption and her own family history, Dawta is a story of escaping the past through the imagining of an unknown future; through the imagining of an unknown hope.
2021 7 min
Yellow Fever – Ng’endo Mukii, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Yellow Fever, Ng’endo Mukii](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Yellow-Fever-1-1024x576.jpg)
The concept of skin and race, and what that implies; the ideas and theories sown into our flesh that change with the arc of time.
2012 7 min
Something More – Mary Martins, UK
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An exploration of the cause of youth violence and the impact of knife crime in London seen through the eyes of a mother raising her 8 year-old son in London.
2022 5 min
Black Moon – Toby Cato, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Black Moon, Toby Cato](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Black-Moon-3-1024x800.jpg)
In a bleak dystopian world beauty abounds in the shapes and rhythms that are all around.
2022 3 min
The Divide – Mary Martins, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, The Divide, Mary Martins](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Divide-1024x576.jpg)
Love can exist within challenging circumstances. A poignant look at how a child’s creativity causes his mother to experience moments of happiness, profound beauty and finally the acceptance of a new life.
2016 5 min
Disney+ clips from Growing Up (Amiri/Sage/Gavin/Emily) – Osbert Parker, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Disney+ clips from Growing Up (Amiri/Sage/Gavin/Emily), Osbert Parker](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/4-x-Disney-Clips-Sage-1024x578.jpg)
The challenges, triumphs and complexities of adolescence explored through the words of four young people on their paths to self-discovery and acceptance.
Production Company: Culture House
2022 6 min
Masso Awwo – Duncan Senkumba, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Masso Awwo, Duncan Senkumba](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Masso-Awwo-3-1024x543.jpg)
A journey through the beauty and chaos of Kampala city taxi park.
2016 3 min
The Sounds of Jordan – Ezra Myers, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, The Sounds of Jordan, Ezra Myers](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Sounds-of-Jordan-1-1024x714.jpg)
A depiction of Trinidad’s chosen instrument, the steel pan – the magnitude of the instrument’s contribution to a once silenced community, which allowed broken souls to express and experience freedom.
2022 3 min
Visual Music – Osbert Parker, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Visual Music, Osbert Parker](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Visual-Music-Jazz-Animation-1-1024x576.jpg)
A joyful depiction of music in motion using disposable everyday objects and the sound of big-band jazz.
work in progress 2 min
Sidesteps – Isabel Barfod, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Sidesteps, Isabel Barfod](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Sidesteps-3-1024x576.jpg)
Flowing through the current with whispers of ancient – and recent past -unseen forces pull, hinder, stun and refract.
2022 5 min
I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow – Jessica Ashman, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, I Don't Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow, Jessica Ashman](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/I-Dont-Protest-I-Just-Dance-In-My-Shadow-2-1024x573.jpg)
A visualisation of the joy, frustration, wishes and dreams of what it feels like to be a black woman and a woman of colour artist, creating and existing.
2017 5 min
Clothes – Osbert Parker, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Clothes, Osbert Parker](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Clothes-1024x770.jpg)
Clothes dance gleefully to the sound of a big band jazz soundtrack.
1988 3 min
Sir John Lubbock’s Pet Wasp – Osbert Parker & Laurie Hill, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Sir John Lubbock's Pet Wasp, Osbert Parker & Laurie Hill](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Sir-John-Lubbocks-Pet-Wasp-3-1024x576.jpg)
A bizarre and beautiful love story Inspired by the life and writings of Sir John Lubbock and an unnamed wasp.
2018 2 min
Yours Truly – Osbert Parker, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Yours Truly, Osbert Parker](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Yours-Truly-3-1024x689.jpg)
Characters burst through yesterday’s emulsion to tell the conflicting story of Frank and Charlie who sacrifice their morals to find love as two world’s collide.
2006 8 min
Robots of Brixton – Kibwe Tavares, UK
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Robots of Brixton, Kibwe Tavares](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Robots-of-Brixton-12-1024x576.jpg)
Brixton has degenerated into an area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans no longer want to do.
2011 6 min
The Invisibles – Edgar H Alvarez
![LIAF, London International Animation Festival, The Invisibles, Edgar H Alvarez](https://liaf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Invisibles.jpg)
A day in the life of the homeless on the streets of LA, the ones that survive or live in a different reality, youngsters with a broken dream, war veterans, drug addicts, lonely people with no family, victims of the economic or emotional crisis.
2013 6 min
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Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery.