A runway presentation of London-based designer Sarah Garfield’s Collection ‘03, her largest and most extensive collection to date.

Join us for an evening exploring the two services that have kept the Thames - and the city - safe for centuries

Join Era Journal in celebrating the launch of the Spring 2025 Issue #20: EXIT TIME

Parapraxis Magazine presents a roundtable discussion with Donald Moss, Hannah Zeavin, Francis Gooding, and Akshi Singh, returning to Moss’s 2021 essay On Having Whiteness

Embodied drawing/embossing workshop and live performance with Billie M Vigne and Chloé Das Neves

Cultural Traffic presents PRELUDE: Transgression  In The UK, a new book by Toby Mott that offers  a visual feast of vintage material from Mott’s  extensive archive, documenting the evolution of  the UK’s fetish and transgressive scenes from  the 1980s onwards. This collection showcases  rare, pre-internet ephemera, including club  flyers, posters, and fashion catalogues, capturing the raw energy and creativity of this  underground scene. 

Exploring the Liminal Nightclub in Genre Film with Miskatonic and Daniel Pietersen

A Hauntological Holiday Happening Summoning Up the Ghosts of Christmas Pastwith Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Tim Wells, Stonecirclesampler and Travis Elborough

Strange Attractor Press invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of Paradise, the final volume in Ken Hollings’ epic Trash Trilogy. The event will also celebrate 20 years since SAP’s first book event at The Horse Hospital.

Join us for an evening of performances, screenings, readings, and discussions. Featuring artists Tuna Erdem, Kell w Farshéa, InXestuous Sisters, and Istanbul Queer Art Collective, this event will also celebrate the book launch of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds by Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, with live readings and dialogue with the authors.

Ruth Bayer and Caroline Wise invite you to the Alchemical Goddess Ritual.

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 17 of the weirdest, wildest, most demented films hand-picked from the 2,400 entered. 

LIAF’s annual collection of the hottest music videos from all over the world. Animation is an integral element in many of the best music videos - they not only entertain but also inspire, inviting viewers to experience music in a whole new way. They represent a dynamic intersection of art and technology, showcasing the limitless possibilities of creative expression in the digital age. Music videos have surged in popularity since the rise of portable screens, and filmmakers are increasingly using them as an experimental form with which to test out their artistic ideas.

Lights, Camera, Animation! This is LIAF’s annual showcase of the most dazzling animated student films selected from the best animation and film schools from all around the world. This is  the first step on the animation ladder for these talented filmmakers, and the first time their wild and wonderful imaginations have been unleashed. Stop-motion, drawn animation, collage, cut-out, CGI, clay, ink and almost every other technique these animators can dream up are all on display here.  33 wondrous films in 3 hour-long programmes from the future stars of our animation universe.

Lights, Camera, Animation! This is LIAF’s annual showcase of the most dazzling animated student films selected from the best animation and film schools from all around the world. This is  the first step on the animation ladder for these talented filmmakers, and the first time their wild and wonderful imaginations have been unleashed. Stop-motion, drawn animation, collage, cut-out, CGI, clay, ink and almost every other technique these animators can dream up are all on display here.  33 wondrous films in 3 hour-long programmes from the future stars of our animation universe.

Lights, Camera, Animation! This is LIAF’s annual showcase of the most dazzling animated student films selected from the best animation and film schools from all around the world. This is  the first step on the animation ladder for these talented filmmakers, and the first time their wild and wonderful imaginations have been unleashed. Stop-motion, drawn animation, collage, cut-out, CGI, clay, ink and almost every other technique these animators can dream up are all on display here.  33 wondrous films in 3 hour-long programmes from the future stars of our animation universe.

Climb aboard as we explore stories of London's Watermen and Lightermen

A screening of works by Cristóbal León , Joaquín Cociña and Antonia Giesen

Much loved indie animator and frequent guest of LIAF - Chris Shepherd  - has spent the last four years working on his debut graphic novel Anfield Road which will be released this October - a funny and poignant coming-of-age story set in Liverpool in 1989, the land of The La's, the Hillsborough disaster and Findus Crispy Pancakes.

In 1990’s Hungary, travel was finally possible but unaffordable. By forging international train tickets, three young men provide the opportunity for a whole generation to experience the outside world.

Destigmatising Mental Health (15+) + screentalk

For the launch of an American Book of the Dead: A Wild West Séance join a quartet of similarly-spun writers emerging from a poetry tradition of spirit talkers and unseasoned hauntology.

Side-Splitting : ironic humour, sometimes wry, bordering on the sardonic, with distressed clowns, derelict funfairs and smoking promoted as pleasure with dire consequences. An off-piste revue curated by  William English  accompanied by a post-A.I. narcissistic clown/photographer.

Artists - Depression, Anxiety, and Rage is a timely expression of faith that through art, community, and an open dialogue about our darkest experiences, not only can we heal, but our loved ones may come to a better understanding of the struggles so many of us have endured. Screening followed by a Q&A with Jasmine Hirst

Nick Triplow and Cathi Unsworth in conversation to celebrate the life and work of Get Carter author, Ted Lewis, and the publication of noir thriller, The Last Days of Johnny Nunn + screening of Get Carter.

A unique evening of stop-frame animation films made by participants in prisons and secure units made in the last 12 years presented by Tony Gammidge of Animated Tales.

Imaging and Imagining UFOs, presented by David Clarke & Andrew Robinson, Centre for Contemporary Legend