It is with great pleasure that Edge of Frame curated by Edwin Rostron returns to LIAF after a two year hiatus. This year Edge of Frame presents two programmes of experimental animation, taking the viewer on a journey of portals, windows and cosmic thresholds, into new realities and transitional spaces.
The first selection explores social and psychological realms, escaping from the gateways of technology and capitalism through the doors of perception, to return to our primordial beginnings. The second programme focuses on the portals within our landscapes, in the mutable surfaces of what we call nature. Old and new meet, mysterious energies flow and sites of connection and unification are revealed.
The works in these programmes blur the boundaries between past and present, landscape and technology, human and nonhuman, inner and outer. From brand new films to historical classics these two selections present a dazzling window onto experimental animation practice.
Curator Edwin Rostron will introduce the programme at our venue, Close-Up Cinema.
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Portales – Elena Duque, Spain
Portales follows the course of the Guadalete river in Cádiz, Spain, from the mountains to the sea: a catalogue of landscapes that hide other landscapes, a collection of interdimensional portals (and postcards) that fuse live action and animation.
2025 16’00
The Fourfold – Alisi Telengut, Canada
Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals of Mongolia and Siberia, as told by my grandmother, this handmade animation explores the Indigenous worldview and its wisdom.
2020 7’00
Water Meadow – Jane Cheadle, UK
An animated meditation on wide-open water-logged lands as imagined from an urban interior: a property-guardian tower-block flat in east London.
2021 4’00
Raining Through My Bones – Meghana Bisineer, USA
Drawing with light, water and natural lime, this experimental animation reflects on home, the queer migrant’s return, and the body as a site of ‘multi- becoming’.
2022 5’00
Fracture – Laura Kraning, USA
“Fracture” mines the slips between stillness and motion, as cracks and fissures of bark and stone are spliced and layered, frame by frame, intersecting slices of time.
2020 4’00
(Third Study for) Swedge of Heaven – Richard Forbes-Hamilton, UK
Using real world locations in Essex, this experimental digital animation explores transitional/peripheral spaces and realms navigated by a reanimated rave mascot and a wooden Neolithic fertility figure.
2020 15’00
Le Rayon Vert – Louis Fourel, France
Powered by a mysterious energy flow, a world develops around the creations of human and animal species that live in these places.
2024 10’00
Our Funding Partners
With Special Thanks to The Elf Factory, official sponsor of LIAF 2025.
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.
Venue
Close-Up makes film culture and history accessible through its cinema programmes and Library. Established in 2005, Close-Up is the most comprehensive independent film resource in London. Find out more about Close-Up.
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