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MA Directing Animation students at the National Film & Television School have been the magicians behind our official festival trailers for the past 13 years! During that time, we've been delighted by hand-drawn, stop-motion, pixilation, claymation, puppet, … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023: OFFICIAL TRAILER

I’m kickin’ myself! Whilst on the grand tour recently I’d run out of English language stuff to read (the hardcopy variant at least) and wound up purloining a glossy mag at the only café in Tallinn, Estonia that was open at the early hour my jetlagged senses were pointing me out the door to for … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: LONG SHORTS

Fair to say that people have been using the tools and methodologies of art as a platform for documentary making as long as they’ve been scratching images into rock walls. Cinema, one of humankind’s youngest artforms, was arguably delivered into the world as a documentary form when the Lumiere … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: ANIMATED DOCUMENTARIES

Who are all these people? They seem to be everywhere! Do you ever find yourself asking that question? I do – all the time! And I don’t really mean just the real people we all encounter everyday – they’re all real to one degree or another and although the weight of their reality on the gravity of … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: LOOKING FOR ANSWERS

Is there a better artform than animation for exploring, reimagining and redefining the environments in which we all must live, work and navigate? Put your hands back down – coming from us here at LIAF HQ it’s what you might call a ‘rhetorical question’. We already know the answer.  That … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: INTO THE DARK (and arguing with the ghost of Guy Debord)

The evolution of cinema (especially fictional cinema) has been thoroughly shaped by theatre, especially in terms of performance and the structuring of episodes [stories/narratives]. After all, many of the first film directors and actors came from theatre. The animated film, on the other hand, is … [Read more...] about LIAF 2023 ARTICLE: BEING HUMAN