London International Animation Festival

LIAF 2022: Edge of Frame presents – Alone with the Moon

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We are very excited to welcome back Edge of Frame to LIAF for the sixth year running with two 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.

A selection of unique and sometimes unnerving animated films, depicting personal (and actual) apocalypse. Each of these films has its own boldly experimental formal language, perfectly matched to the intensity of its mood. These mysterious works of dreamlike beauty and nightmarish terror speak directly to our unconscious as they explore the horrors and fears of late capitalist existence.

*This programme features strobing which may affect photosensitive viewers.

Find out about the first Edge of Frame programme: Heavenly Bodies

Someone behind the door knocks at irregular intervals – James Lowne, UK

LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Someone behind the door knocks at irregular intervals, James Lowne

Julia spends the day at the leisure centre where she slips into a sombre reverie.

2010 5 mins

Flower – Naoko Tasaka, USA

LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Flower, Naoko Tasaka

A sphinx-like allegory that plumbs the depths of physical and metaphorical surfaces, Flower hovers between straightforward narration and sublimated abstraction.

2013 21 mins

Eclipsed – Jamie Wolfe, USA

LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Eclipsed, Jamie Wolfe

Tensions rise in the final hour of the solar eclipse.

2022 2’30

VACATION – Yifan Jiang & James J.A. Mercer, USA

LIAF, London International Animation Festival, VACATION - Yifan Jiang, James J.A. Mercer

A destitute man builds a life for himself out of furniture that has washed up on the shore, making an unremarkable patch of beach his home.

2022 25 mins

Alone With the Moon – Peter Burr, USA

LIAF, London International Animation Festival, Alone With the Moon, Peter Burr

The darkness is pregnant with bugs and stars. This is an imagined bardo, drifting through some slow illusion in black and white.

2012 14 mins

Our Funding Partner

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.