LIAF 2021 presents a walk on wild side of anti-classic animation - the most twisted films to emerge this year
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Doors: 9:15pm (Event starts promptly at 9.30pm)
Tickets: £8.00 General Admission; £6.00 concessions
This screening is the second of a double bill of LIAF 2021 screenings on this evening. Tickets for both are available as a bundle, for a reduced price of £15 (£11 concessions), via the link below.
The London International Animation Festival - the UK’s largest and longest-running animation festival - is back with 10 days of amazing screenings, talks and visits from local and international animators with our first fully hybrid edition. We are especially excited to return to the Horse Hospital for the first time since 2019 with 3 nights of talks and screenings from several of the world’s best animators.
It’s back. LIAF’s annual walk on the wild side featuring the most twisted films to emerge this year. We dug deep to find the best and this is what you find when you go down that far. The ever-popular Late Night Bizarre programme is a bunch of anti-classics guaranteed to be as far away from Disney as it’s possible to get. A dirty fistful of 15 of the weirdest, wildest, most demented films hand-picked from the 2,400 entered.
Animation is such an unbridled artform and it unleashes some of the most unleashable imaginations on the planet. The temptation to ‘go wide’ is played out time and time again by these animators as they bring to the screen barely imaginable scenarios, crazy battling juxtapositions and boil-your-eyes imagery.
Expect severed heads, parasitic worms, dead cats, vampires, a gay Jesus, pink hermaphroditic creatures, deranged biting things and a whole lot more.
This is the second of two LIAF 2021 screenings taking place at The Horse Hospital on this evening. Full details at www.liaf.org.uk
You can buy tickets for both programmes at a reduced price of £15.00 (£11 concessions).
Theo W Scott, ‘Cuties’, film still courtesy of the artist
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Cuties (2021), dir. Theo W Scott,
UK, 5 mins
Human history in all its horror and glory, culminating in our next evolutionary leap; moving forward despite our proclivity for destruction.
Thing (2021), dir. Malte Stein
Germany, 4 min,
Haunted by a little thing, a man gets driven to the edge and beyond.
Hi, you Peach (2020), dir. Yugo Limbo
USA, 2 min
Hi, you Peach. Won’t you join us? Live with us? Love with us? Pray with us? Become one with the Peach, won’t you? You will.
Under the Skin, the Bark (2021), dir. Franck Dion
France, 9 min
An animated character escapes from his imaginary world and wanders into the room of his creator.
Misery Loves Company (2020), dir. Sasha Lee
South Korea, 3 min
Seolgi is lying in a field with friends, a shooting star falls, and dark, intrusive thoughts hit her. They are wishing for a meteorite to end the world.
Il Gatto (2020), dir. Donato Sansone
Italy, 7 mins
A severed head. A dead cat. An invitation to a journey of dreams and nightmares.
The Playground (2021), dir. Grace Nayoon Rhee
South Korea, 6 mins
A young girl finds love in a children’s playground. But who is the boy?
Throat Notes (2020), dir. Felix Colgrave
Australia, 9 mins
A little story about the backyard critters you might see in Tasmania, and the things they might be doing.
Mulm (2020), dir. Carol Ratajczak, Tobias Trebeljahr
Germany, 7 mins
N tries to communicate with a star, but he is disturbed by the neighbour's cat, which he has to look after.
Parasite and Me (2021), dir. Kannosuke Enomoto
Japan, 5 min
A parasite that breeds on worms and crows. Disgusting, harmful but kinda’ fascinating.
Amen to no Men (2021), dir. Hayley Legon
USA, 2 mins
The incredibly true and not made up story of Eva - the reincarnated gay Jesus.
Dissolution (2020), dir. Dries Bogaert
Belgium, 8 mins
A society of pink creatures lives peacefully on a tower, following one unwritten rule: wait in line to get to the top. Then one of them decides not to join the line.
Vampire (2021), dir. Zhong Xian
8 mins, UK/Taiwan, 8 mins
A woman’s boyfriend is missing but he returns as a vampire and then things get weird.
All Jerk, No Work (2020), dir. Chris Lambourne
UK, 4 mins
The story of a young man who "got in touch" with himself over lockdown.
The Clockwork Elves (2020), dir. Nick Cross
USA, 4 mins
Either a psychotropic exploration of spirituality and death - or a tale of a little goofball hopped up on goofballs. Your choice!