Image: Goodbye Mommy (2019, Jack Wedge)
Doors Open 9pm
Please note: 18+ (contains violence, coarse language, sex scenes and drug use)
Tickets £7 / £5 concs
Our ever-popular programme Music Video programme screens just before this one at 7:30pm. You can buy tickets for both screenings for just £12 + booking fee.
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. This 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 11 of the weirdest, wildest, most demented films hand-picked from the 2,600 entered.
Expect period blood stories, unexpected violence, manic depressed alcoholism, octopus balls, a search for God, very wet nether regions and a whole lot more.
12 films, total running time 77 minutes
Films Screening:
Very Animated People-Peaches
Canadian singer Peaches tells a sordid tale about living in a shared household with some very disturbing housemates.
USA 2018 Dir: Leah Shore 4min
Top 5 Animation Containers
A countdown of the most beloved Animation Containers of all time including Helioblox Man, Mertie and Equinox Head.
UK 2019 Dir: Ben Wheele 6min
Flood
A dirty lake bursts its banks and begins to flood the town. Mother tries to keep son inside.
Germany 2018 Dir: Malte Stein 10min
Animals
Nine people on a train get naked, piss everywhere and beat the crap out of each other. An explosion of jaw-dropping hilarity and bad, bad taste.
Denmark 2019 Dir: Tue Sanggaard 6min
The Inner Turmoils of Someone who’s definitely not me
Jimmy, a manic depressed alcoholic, explores his own mind as he spirals into depression and ends up in an Alice Coltrane record.
UK 2019 Dir: James Cheetham 4min
Takoyaki Story
The story of a girl addicted to octopus balls.
Japan 2019 Dir: Sawako Kabuki 2min
Slug Life
A day in the life of Tanya, a curious woman who has developed a taste for a beautiful giant slug.
UK 2018 Dir: Sophie Koko Gate 7min
Goodbye Mommy
A magical, surrealist neo-noir sci-fi film about a heartbroken detective who gets caught up in a mysterious case involving extraterrestrials and a giant, old king who has gone missing.
USA 2019 Dir: Jack Wedge 13min
Tom Has a Plant
Tom has a plant. He just wants to give it to the one he loves.
Denmark 2019 Dir: Thinh Nguyen 6min
It’s Wet
A narcissistic woman lives without worrying about the world around her and ignorant of the natural cycle she is part of.
France 2018 Dir: Alexis Godard/Nan Huang 7min
Reneepoptosis
Three Renees go on a quest to find God, who is also Renee. As they traverse the mountains and valleys of Renee, they discover all the great joys, sorrows, and mysteries of being Renee.
USA/Japan 2018 Dir: Renee Zhan 10min
Egg Touching
A group of 4 friends get together and discuss how they want to touch an egg.
UK 2018 Dir: Peter Millard 2min
The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2019) returns for it’s 16th edition to the Horse Hospital over 2 nights – Friday 6/Saturday 7 December – with 4 eclectic and inspiring screenings and talks with some of the most creative, eclectic and downright weird minds working in animation today.
Independent animation is very much alive and kicking and continues to thrive and develop with a breathtaking medley of styles, materials, techniques and genres. From hand drawn, paint on glass, collage and sculpture, to cut-outs, puppets, abstract and sand/salt – LIAF 2019 showcases all of this. Join us at the Horse Hospital and see these latest mini-masterpieces.
The London International Animation Festival is a 10-day event screening at 5 venues from November 29 to December 8. For full details on the LIAF 2019 programme please go to the website at www.liaf.org.uk.