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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.
This programme focuses on a rich seam of experimental and independent animation exploring the possibilities of the cartoon body, often in wild and subversive ways. We find ostensibly cute and colourful characters afflicted with all the unpredictable physicality of our own human bodies. Animators working in this territory often use it as a route to deal with secrets, embarrassments or trauma, employing the liberating potential of animation to celebratory effect. Bold new films by Peter Millard, Kate Renshaw-Lewis and Chris Childs mix with historical work of a similar bent, from trailblazing animators Karen Aqua and Adam Beckett. The programme also showcases several essential noughties works from Amy Lockhart, Emily Hubley and James Duesing. Human and human-like creatures abound, often engaged in dubious activities, with varying levels of mischief, pleasure, confusion and sorrow as a result.
Find out about the second Edge of Frame programme: Alone with the Moon
Heavenly Bodies – Karen Aqua, USA
An astronomical love story.
1980 3 mins
Belly Talkers – Kate Renshaw-Lewis, USA
A nervous homebody ventures out into a daunting world.
2021 8 mins
Library of Paradise, Garden of Pain – Chris Childs, UK
In a luscious garden, a sickly man is cared for by a group of strange librarians.
2021 3’30
Walk For Walk – Amy Lockhart, USA
A colourful tripped out animated landscape filled with catchy songs, eyeball kicks, goofball characters, and a great variety of babies: Warm Baby! Mister Baby! Rich Baby! And more!
2005 11 mins
Bus Film – Chris Childs, UK
A group of activists travel to London on a dream-like bus.
2022 3’30
please let me in – Peter Millard, UK
“Please let me in. I want more. let me in.”
2022 2 mins
Landscapes – Amy Lockhart, USA
Created on the Amiga Emulator. Using Dpaint to create the visuals and DMusic to create the soundtrack.
2012 9 mins
Octave – Emily Hubley, USA
Musical tones play with shifting symbolic images to create moments when things mysteriously come together.
2006 7 mins
Tender Bodies – James Duesing, USA
A sinister yet humorous animation about events witnessed by a genetically altered unicorn.
2003 8 mins
Flesh Flows – Adam Beckett, USA
Intricate animated line drawings, erotic and surreal, are transformed from their base existence into a continuous flight through a space filled with luminous clouds of flowing purple and turquoise gases. Hence we are shown a path from the carnal to the cosmic.
1974 7 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.
