Here are 10 of the funniest and weirdest films we have screened at LIAF over the years.
Doors: 6.30pm [programme starts at 7pm]
Tickets: £8 [£6 concession]
Over the 20-year history of LIAF we have screened hundreds of films that fall into the
comedy category, mostly in our ‘From Absurd to Zany’ programmes. Half of what
most of us dream could easily qualify as absurd or zany. A good percentage of the
best stuff that comes out of kids mouths is the same. In common, those two
wellsprings of the absurd and the zany are firing off imaginations that are less
blanketed by the smog of simple realities that gradually grow to demand priority of
our private thoughts and public expressions. Art is about interrogating what lies
beneath all that and bringing it out into the open so anybody who wants to, can use
it, as a tool to help ease the gradual suffocation of their simplest and most honest
thoughts. Animation is a near perfect tool to do that, and in many animated instances
that imperative bubbles out in the kind of absurdist and zany films that find their way
into this programme.
Here are 10 of the funniest and weirdest films we have screened at LIAF over the
years. Several of these films tend to extract the humour from the everyday foibles of
normal people and amplify it into an inevitable, hilarious train-crash of an ending.
Others give every impression of seeing nothing funny in everyday foibles
whatsoever, instead finding ingenious ways to turn the mirror on ourselves until we
have little choice but to laugh at our conceits and shortcomings. Sit back, relax, and
treat yourself to a laugh.
I Live in the Woods | A Woodsman’s frantic journey, driven by happiness, slaughter and a confrontation with America’s God. | [USA 2008 Dir: Max Winston 3’25]
The Control Master | A secret giganticator device allows a normal woman to increase in size and save the city from dangers. When the device falls into the wrong hands, the city is thrown into
peril. [UK 2008 Dir: Run Wrake 6’45]
Please Say Something | Set in the far-off future, this is the story of a difficult relationship between a very emotional cat and her husband, a tedious mouse. [Ireland 2008 Dir: David OReilly 10’00]
Sh*t Happens | In an apartment an exhausted caretaker, his sexually frustrated wife and their
neighbour - a widowed deer - all try to cope with their problems, but just end up
making things worse. [Czech Republic 2019 Dir: Michaela Mihalyi and David Stumpf 13’00]
Hudson Geese | A Canadian goose takes a moment to look back and remember his last migration
while reflecting on his family. [USA 2019 Dir: Bernardo Britto 5’25]
Storm Hits Jacket | A storm is raging on the coast of Britanny. Two young scientists are caught in the turmoil. Espionage, hopes of love and mystical moments collide with excitement and
chaos. [France 2014 Dir: Paul Cabon 13’20]
Six God Alphabet Peter | Please wake up Peter. Please wake up. You need to learn your alphabet now Peter. [UK 2016 Dir: Peter Millard 6’45]
Push this Button if you Begin to Panic | A man goes to the doctor about the growing hole in his head which is becoming quite beautiful. [UK/Switzerland 2020 Dir: Gabriel Bohmer 13’00]
My Galactic twin Galaction | Any semblance of normality is thrown out of the window when a galactic twin decides to lead a fight against evil. [Russia 2020 Dir: Sasha Svirsky 6’30]
Pringle of Scotland | The making of jumpers and cardigans over the past 195-year history of the iconic Scottish brand. [UK 2010 Dir: David Shrigley 3’10]