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We’ve emerged from under the pile of 2,400 entries to put together a series of screenings that showcase the best 87 new films from 30 countries around the world. They can be funny, dramatic, bizarre, subdued, scary or autobiographical. The one thing they have in common is that we think they’re the pick of the crop. 8 international competition programmes. Every technique, every genre, every style – this is your annual window into the international indie animation universe.
This programme is our annual survey of abstract and experimental animation. Animators working in this field employ every technique from hand-drawn ‘musical scores’ all the way across the scale to high definition, computer assisted image making. These 16 short films share a pure love of animated movement and an artist’s eye for filling the screen, harnessing colour and creating non-narrative imagery.
Perf Dance – Steven Woloshen, Canada
Playful and wonky, a physical dance with darkness and light.
2022 3’30
& More – Tsz-wing Ho, Hong Kong
A sparkling geometric play of shapes and forms in the M+ Museum of Hong Kong.
2022 3’10
Beneath – Beth Walker, UK
A meditation on growth, connection and symbiosis inspired by the entangled lives of fungi.
2022 3’35
Sacred Clockworks – Moritz Schuchmann, Germany
A stunning circular pictorial history of church domes, mosques and synagogues treated like clockworks.
2021 4’45
Intermission – Reka Bucsi, Hungary
A projection of mental images, formed while listening to music. From the simple act of drawing a line, to the intricate movement and complex structure of animation that is able to self-generate.
2022 4’55
Unreal Central – Junien Cho, Qingmei Melody Li & Yung Ka Valerie Mak, Hong Kong
A huge glorious rush through Old Town Hong Kong juxtaposing nature and concrete in an endless tunnel.
2022 3’10
Holes – Birgitta Hosea, UK
Viewed through a peephole, an imaginary journey through the female body that is traced by oil pastels, white spirit, milk, ink, detergent, lipstick and pomegranates.
2021 5’30
Occurro – Vadim Epstein
A beautifully intense visual mash-up. StarGAN2 run in a feedback loop creating Chaos theory.
2021 4’05
Protostase – Tiberio Suppressa, France
A journey into the viscera of the cosmos.
2021 9’15
Clockwise – Toni Mitjanit, Spain
Different geometric patterns emerge chaotically inspired by the mosaics of Eduardo Paolozzi and the tapestries of Gunta Stölzl and the Bauhaus school.
2021 3’25
Sphere – Wataru Iwata, Japan
The work of mutual transformation that takes place when the self and the other face each other in an endless continuum.
2021 6’00
Hysteresis – Robert Seidel, Germany
The lag between recording analogue drawings and projecting them onto a queer performer’s choreography to create dense feedback loops.
2021 5’05
Ruled Surface – Pete McPartlan, UK
A hypnotic series of lines made from embroidery thread soundtracked by an old-school modular synthesiser.
2021 2’35
Spheres – Anais Scheeck, France
An epic trip into a geometric abstract world. From primary gravitations into the abyss of the mind, movement is the only tangible element in this initiatory journey.
2021 4’40
Retinal Activation – Shusaku Kaji, Japan
An imaginary exploration of the primitive beauty of fire and light that would have been reflected in the eyes of primitive people.
2021 5’00
Intersextion – Richard Roger Reeves, Canada
Handmade optical sounds and drawing directly to 35mm film. Two abstract energies fall in love, unite as one then disappear into a vanishing point.
2022 4’00
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.
