TEN YEARS SUPPORTING, DELIVERING & PROMOTING THE WHOLE SPECTRUM OF ANIMATION Fri 25th Oct We made it to our 10th anniversary! We’ve received more than 12,000 entries, screened over 2,500 films and have had the privilege of hanging out with some of the most talented animators in the whole world. Now it’s time for us to celebrate a decade - supporting, delivering and promoting animation. The history, the now, the future... the whole spectrum of animation. Gala Opening Night (15) at Barbican Fri 25 Oct 18:30 Help us celebrate LIAF’s 10th birthday in style with a great collection of films from right across the LIAF 2013 line-up. New films in competition, classics from the special programmes, a first chance to meet the guests, and a glimpse at the new British crop. Plus a very special screening of an amazing feature film about the greatest animated film NEVER made... Persistence of Vision Persistence of Vision 10 Comedy Animations (15) (15) Persistence of Vision at Barbican Fri 25 Oct 21:30 Kevin Schrek, USA 2012 Striving to make the greatest animated film of all time, visionary animator Richard Williams (Academy Award- winning animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit) toiled for more than a quarter of a century on his masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler – only Guard Dog The Small Dragon The Man in the Blue to have it torn from his hands. Kevin Schreck has Gordini woven together mind-blowing animation, rare archival This is the first of three special screenings reviewing footage and exclusive interviews with key animators the very best comedy, horror and sci-fi films that and artists who worked with Williams on his ill-fated have screened at LIAF over the last decade – this magnum opus to bring this legendary, forgotten programme features 10 of our very best comedy films. chapter of cinema history to the screen for the very Guard Dog (Bill Plympton, USA) 2004 first time. Brother (Adam Elliot, Australia) 1999 A tale of creative genius gone horribly awry, The Small Dragon (Bruno Collet, France) 2009 Persistence of Vision is the untold story of the Cowboys: Outrage (Phil Mulloy, UK) 1992 greatest animated film never made. The Man in the Blue Gordini (Jean-Christophe Lie France) 2009 After the screening LIAF director Nag Vladermersky 12 Years (Daniel Nocke, Germany) 2010 will be joined onstage by Persistence of Vision’s Dreams and Desires: Family Ties (Joanna Quinn, director Kevin Schreck (flying in especially from UK) 2006 the USA) as well as charismatic animator Michael Rejected (Don Hertzfeldt, USA) 2001 Schlingmann, who spent many years working with The External World (David O’Reilly, USA) 2011 Richard Williams on this unrealised project. Tram (Michaela Pavlatova, France) 2012 Sat 26th Oct Animation Workshop Imago Moi Tram at Barbican Sat 26 Oct 10:00 - 11:00 Sacrebleu Productions (15) A completely free drop-in animation workshop at Barbican Sat 26 Oct 14:00 for children, with BAFTA-winning animator Kevin Griffiths, organised by Film & Video Workshop. This programme gathers a superb collection of Followed by Amazing Animations highlights from this quiet powerhouse of French Part of Barbican’s Framed Film Club animation, including their latest international hit filmTram . This is a programme that gently but Amazing Animations persuasively showcases the extraordinary potential (U) of animation when it is entrusted to some of the most 0-6 years gifted artists working in the field today. at Barbican Sat 26 Oct 11:00 also at The Rio Sat 2 Nov 13:15 (Repeat) Imago (Cedric Babouche, 2005) Madagascar: A Journal Diary (Bastien Dubois, 2009) La Loup Blanc (Pierre-Luc Granjon, 2006) Moi (Ines Sedan, 2012) Where Dogs Die (Svetlana Filippova, 2011) The Routine (Cedric Babouche, 2003) My Little Brother From The Moon (Frederic Philibert, Fresh Guacamole Someone Who Gets Miriam’s Food 2008) You Processor The Man Is The Only Bird That Carries His Own Cage (Claude Weiss, 2008) Aston’s Presents (Lotta & Uzi Geffenblad, Sweden) Tram (Michaela Pavlatova, 2012) Believe In Yourself (Tony Dusko, USA) Miriam’s Green Spots (Priit Tender, Estonia) The Deep (PES, USA) Monstersinfonie (Kiana Naghshineh, Germany) High above the Sky (Kim Noce & Shaun Clark, UK) 10 Sci-Fi Sharing (Tony Dusko, USA) Animations (15) The Sandpixies: Clouds, Nothing But Clouds (Ralf Kukula, Germany) at Barbican Sat 26 Oct 16:00 Mungge, Not Again! (Claudia Röthlin, Adrian Flückiger & Irmgard Walthert, Switzerland) Fresh Guacamole (PES, USA) A Girl Named Elastika (Guillaume Blanchet, Canada) Tom and the Queen Bee (Andreas Hykade, Germany) Calamity Island (Dave Johnson, UK) Eclipse Countdown Robots of Brixton Someone Who Gets You (Tony Dusko, USA) Miriam’s Food Processor (Andres Tenusaar, Estonia) This is the second of three special screenings Komaneko, Home Alone (Tsuneo Goda, Japan) reviewing the very best comedy, horror and sci-fi The Goat Herder and His Lots and Lots and Lots of films that have screened at LIAF over the years – this Goats (Will Rose, UK) Tickets: £2 screening features 10 of our very best sci-fi films. Le Processus (Philippos Grammaticopoulos, France) Flipbook Challenge Workshop 2000 at Barbican Sat 26 Oct 14:30 The Origin of Creatures (Floris Kaayk, Holland) 2010 Eclipse (T Guignard, N Lecombre & H Noreno, If you’d like to find out a little France) 2012 more about this form of micro- Mrdrchain (Ondrej Svadlena, Czech Republic) 2010 animation, then pop along to our Countdown (Celine Desrumaux, UK/France) 2011 Flipbook Challenge Workshop, The Gloaming (Nobrain, France) 2010 led by expert animator Elizabeth Robots of Brixton (Kibwe Tavares, UK) 2011 Hobbs. Don’t forget to enter this Morana (Simon Bogojevic Narath, Croatia) 2008 year’s Flipbook Challenge! 9 (Shane Acker, USA) 2005 Tickets: £3 Magnetic Movie (Semi Conductor, UK) 2007 Kick-Heart Feral The Triangle Affair Frenching Gains and Losses The Empress International Programme 1 (15) Canadian Indie Showcase 1 (15) at Barbican Sat 26 Oct 19:00 at The Horse Hospital Sat 26 Oct 19:00 also at The Horse Hospital Sun 27 Oct 19:00 (Repeat) These two programmes celebrate two unconnected, We May Meet, We May Not (Skirmanta Jakaite, indie auteur animating collectives - Canada’s network Lithuania) of world class schools and the outrageously gifted Fear of Flying (Conor Finnegan, Ireland) community at The National Film Board of Canada. Not About Us (Michael Frei, Switzerland/Estonia) TINAMV 1 (Adnan Popovic, Austria) Animated Self Portraits (Madi Piller) 2012 Kick-Heart (Masaaki Yuasa, Japan) Machine (Diane Obomsawin) 2010 Astigmatismo (Nicolai Troshinsky, Spain) Traces of Joy (Jeff Tran) 2011 Feral (Daniel Sousa, USA/Portugal) It’s the Good Life (Sharon Katz) 2012 To This Day (Shane Koyczan/Giant Ant, Canada) Spirit of Bluebird (Xstine Cook) 2010 The Triangle Affair (Andres Tenusaar, Estonia Somnium (Noah Wohl & Nima Ehtemam) 2011 Subconscious Password (Chris Landreth, Canada) Gluttony (Family Visit) (Ann Marie Fleming) 2011 The Myth of Robo Wonder Kid (Joel Mackenzie) 2012 Frenching (JC Little) 2011 Ülo Pikkov Retrospective (15) A Girl Named Elastika (Guillaume Blanchet) 2011 Drat (Farzin Farzaneh) 2010 at Barbican Sat 26 Oct 21:00 Gains and Losses (Leslie Supnet) 2011 Thunder River (Pierre Hebert) 2011 The Empress (Lyle Pisio) 2009 Canadian Indie Showcase 2 (15) at The Horse Hospital Sat 26 Oct 21:00 The Year of the Monkey, Body Memory, Bermuda The Equality Effect Car Cemetery The Fox and Chikadee Ülo’s Pikkov’s films are extremely varied stylistically - from the kind of illustration you would expect to Dancing with Northern Lights (Jonathan Amitay) 2009 see in a colourful children’s book, in his debut film C’est La Vie The Chris J. Melnychuk Story (QAS Bermuda - to the more surreal and disturbing imagery Collective) 2011 of the The Headless Horseman. Dark and harrowing, Zap Girl Makes Toast (Chris J. Melnychuk) 2007 hilarious and irreverent, thought-provoking and lyrical, Business as Usual (Carol Beecher & Kevin D.A. Ülo’s Pikkov’s films are powerful visualisations of the Kurytnik) 2010 animated form. Hold (Kim Anderson) 2012 Figment (Craig Marshall) 2011 Bermuda (1998) The Equality Effect (Andrea Dorfman) 2010 The Headless Horseman (2001) Yellow Sticky Notes - Canadian Anijam (Jeff Chiba The Year of the Monkey (2003) Stearns) 2013 Taste of Life (2006) The Perfect Detonator (Jay White) 2011 Dialogues (2008) Little Theatres - Homage to the Mineral of Body Memory (2011) Cabbage (Stephanie Dudley) 2010 The End (2012) Car Cemetery (DJXLS, Francis Theberge & Daniel Faubert) 2011 As part of a free exhibition in the Barbican cinema Agape (Alexandre Iliach) 2012 foyers celebrating a decade of our festival, we’ll The Fox and Chickadee (Evan DeRushie) 2012 be bringing you artwork from some of Ülo’s films Crossing Victoria (Steven Woloshen) 2013 throughout LIAF 2013. Labyrinth (Patrick Jenkins) 2008 Sun 27th Oct Marvellous Animations Drawing For Memo- SPD and Me Devil in (PG) ry (Ali’s Story) the Room 7-15 years Animated Documentaries (15) at Barbican Sun 27 Oct 11:00 at Barbican Sun 27 Oct 14:00 also at The Rio Sat 2 Nov 15:00 Persuasive, illustrative and able to get over abstract details in attractive and compelling ways, animation is the ideal tool to document someone’s vision of the truth. Old Man (Leah Shore, USA) Irish Folk Furniture (Tony Donoghue, Ireland) Rising Hope Tom and the Queen Wind Drawing For Memory (Ali’s Story) (Andy Glynne & Bee Salvador Maldonado, UK) Choir Tour (Edmunds Jansons, Lativia) SPD and Me (Matthew Brookes, UK) The Mole at the Sea (Anna Kadykova, Russia) Seams and Embers (Claire Lamond,