LONDON: The Horse Hospital

Saturday 3rd November, 2012

6:00pm

Event information

A 'festival within a festival'. Three diverse back-to-back programmes looking at the next generation of indie animators from a variety of angles. Here are three programmes of the best international student films drawn from more than 60 different schools in 25 countries.

The price of £10 gets you into all 3 sessions. Almost 5 hours of some of the wildest and best animation at this years festival.

Programme 1 - Tokyo University of the Arts - 6pm.
The arrival of LIAF 2012's special guest - legendary Japanese animator Koji Yamamura ("Mt Head", "Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor", "Muybridge's Strings" to name but a few) dramatically and quickly re-energised the Tokyo University of the Arts animation course into a creative powerhouse of the Japanese animation scene and the world is beginning to sit up and take notice of its graduates. This collection looks at some of their more recent graduate works and shows what a unique torrent of animation has been untapped there.

Al Dente Tango
Maho Yoshida
Japan, 4'08, 2011
Welcome. Do you have a booking? Yes? Good. Here is your table. Welcome to the Restaurant Of The Macabre.

Fleeting Dream
Mayuko Yamakita
Japan, 4'01, 2011
A poignant departure from the charcoal splendour of the real world to a more colourful, but less predictable, world beneath the surface.

Spots Spots
Yuanyuan Hu
Japan, 4'15, 2011
Spots may be in the eye of the beholder but that beholder needs a pretty vivid imagination to see them all.

From The Dolphin
Tatsuhiro Ariyoshi
Japan, 2'09, 2011
A dolphin's-eye view of a hypnotic journey to a surprisingly unexpected end vision.

Bonnie
Masanori Okamoto
Japan, 2'27, 2011
Life can be a frenetic journey for a fragile little cut-out trying to make its way through the crazy rigours of the urban jungle.

Specimens Of Obsessions
Atsushi Makino
Japan, 12'08, 2011
The centipede of punishment, an ephemera of obsessions, the leech of closure, a snail of escape, and of course the cockroach of usual life.

Ygg's Bird
Mariko Saito
Japan, 5'27, 2011
From fire, smoke and scorched earth, a bird arrives to find that life has changed forever.

The Tender March
Wataru Uekusa
Japan, 4'48, 2011
A visual roller-coaster ride right out of a Japanese, pop culture-infused graphic novel - but with lots more screens.

The Life Of The Weed
Sonomi Takada
Japan, 2'53, 2011
A pastiche of 'floranetic' hyperactivity that traces the path of one big weed on the move.

Jam Fish
Senri Iida
Japan, 3'34, 2011
A bold and colourful visual essay on what fish can teach us about dealing with the peak-hour traffic.

Fully Cooked For You
Yuka Imabayashi
Japan, 3'44, 2011
Behind every peeled owl is ... another peeled owl. Underneath every puffed mushroom is a stem waiting to escape.

Island Of Man
Alimo
Japan, 6'32, 2011
A quiet carpet of Zen imagery and narrative. On an island that could be anywhere, a pair of boots lay cast away.

Rootless Heart
Toshiko Hata
Japan, 9'52, 2011
Uncertainty equals danger. And uncertain danger requires a response. But an uncertain response comes with uncertain consequences.

Uncapturable Ideas
Masaki Okuda
Japan, 10'52, 2011
Somebody has gone fishing for ideas and they've thrown the net real wide. Step forward and help pull this rich bounty into the boat.

Programme 2 - 7-30pm
Fly Mill
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Producer: Estonian Academy Of Arts
Estonia, 7'20, 2012
Man's disregard for the balance of nature can relegate him to the bottom of the food chain.

Flamingo Pride
Tomer Eshed
Producer: HFF "Konrad Wolf"
Germany, 6'02, 2011
Pride and prejudice down on the rainbow bird ponds.

The Case
Director: Martin Zivocky
Producer: Tomas Bata University, FMK
Czech Republic, 4'46, 2011
A rainy, hard-boiled night on the gritty streets depicted in the softest velvet tones.

Bottle
Director: Kirsten Lepore
Producer: California Institute of the Arts
USA, 5'25, 2011
The power to connect knows no boundaries and can't be stopped by Mother Nature's power of erosion.

House Wanders, Bird Water Full
Director: Veronika Samartseva
Producer: HFF "Konrad Wolf"
Germany, 8'55, 2012
A tender and sensitive portrait of self-discovery.

Life and Stuff
Director: Kumar Satkunarasa
Producer: Bournemouth University, NCCA
UK, 4'30, 2011
A kaleidoscopic, whistle-stop tour through one man's life in four and a half minutes.

Egaro
Director: Bruno Salamone
Producer: Supinfocom
France, 6'09, 2011
Apparently meek and mild by day, the vibe turns grotesque when his conversion to the 'masked one' takes place.

Little Monkey
Director: Delphine Dussoubs
Producer: Ecole des Métiers du Cinéma d'Animation
France, 3'30, 2011
A young monkey, initiated by his master, has to pass his transition to adulthood.

Peacemaker Mac - The Island Of Dispute
Director: Yotam Cohen
Producer: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Israel, 4'39, 2011
A damned classy, old-time-style cartoon channelling Kricfalusi and Mesmer in roughly equal proportions.

The Box / Die Kiste
Director: Kyra Buschor
Producer: Filmakademie Baaden-Wurttemberg
Germany, 4'50, 2011
A tale of the reptilian mystic. Three frogs must decide whether to open the box that sits before them.

Stay Home
Director: Caleb Wood
Producer: Rhode Island School of Design
USA, 5'37, 2011
A worm, a bird, a cat, a dog - a pecking order.

Ishihara
Director: Yoav Brill
Producer: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Israel, 5'45, 2011
A poignant tale of colour blindness using Ishihara colour test patterns.

38-39 Degrees
Director: Kangmin Kim
Producer: CalArts
USA/South Korea, 7'43, 2011
A man enters an old bathhouse where he relives a memory of his father, and their past relationship ignites.

Omerta
Directors: Nicolas Loudot, Fabrice Fiteni, Arnaud Janvier, Gaspard Roche
Producer: Supinfocom
France, 6'14, 2011
A dapper, gangster frog tries his luck at locking horns with mafia rhinos - it was only ever going to turn out one way.

I'm Fine Thanks
Director: Eamonn O'Neill
Producer: Royal College of Art, London
UK, 4'30, 2011
A candy-coloured psychotic meditation on urban survival.

Programme 3 - 9:15pm
Swarming / Kuhina
Director: Joni Mannisto
Producer: Turku Arts Academy
Finland, 7'18, 2011
A new universe of life leaps forth from the insides of a dead bird - much to the delight and wonder of the child who discovers it.

A Life Well-Seasoned
Director: Daniel Rieley
Producer: The Arts University College at Bournemouth
UK, 3'35, 2011
Maybe the simplest memories are the real spice of life.

Flood / Fiumana
Director/Producer: Julia Gromskaya
Italy, 5'20, 2012
A girl at a window watches the passing of time, the waltz of seasons, waiting for her man.

This is Not Real
Director: Gergely Wootsch
Producer: Royal College of Art, London
UK, 2011, 6'40
A young boy's chimerical journey from a small English town leads him to an all-defining conclusion.

En Parties
Director: Hugo Bravo
Producer: Ecole Emile Cohl
France, 3'49, 2011
Modern deco blended with postmodern cubism - coming to a screen near you.

Within Within
Director: Sharon Liu
Producer: Royal College of Art, London
UK, 3'00, 2011
An astonishingly mature review of the young filmmaker's sense of her birthplace - Hong Kong - its place in the world and its complex relationship with China.

From Dad to Son
Director: Nils Knoblich
Producer: Kunsthochschule Kassel
Germany, 5'20, 2011
From his prison cell, junior writes a letter to his dad, informing him that the weapon and victim lie buried on his property.

Hinterland
Directors: Jakob Weyde & Jost Althoff
Producer: HFF "Konrad Wolf"
Germany, 8'40, 2011
A crow steals a bear's new I-Pod. The bear gets mad.

L'Air De Rien
Director: Cecile Milazzo
Producer: La Poudriere
France, 3'16, 2011
The faces we create, the clothes we wear, the spaces we inhabit - are they barriers, disguises or conduits to surviving day to day.

When I Was Young
Director: Kaori Onishi
Producer: UCA, Farnham
UK/Japan, 2011, 5'34
The story of a girl who wants to be a whale.

Passenger
Director/Producer: Africanus Okokon
Producer: Rhode Island School of Design
USA, 3'51, 2011
An entrancing re-animated view of a ride home in the dark.

Change/Valtozas
Director: Virag Kiss
Producer: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Hungary, 6'37, 2011
An ironic monologue about finding one's path, inner growth, and the desire to change.

Right In The Middle / Zmitzt Drin
Director: Cecile Brun
Producers: HSLU Design & Art, Lucerne.
Switzerland, 5'06, 2011
I'm searching and searching when it's actually me that's being followed. And I've already been found ages ago.

Once Upon A Time/Conte De Faits
Director: Jumi Yoon
Producer: La Poudriere
France, 3'59, 2011
A young girl remembers the sights, sounds and her escape paths from the American servicemen's bar her mother ran during the Korean War.

The Backwater Gospel
Director: Bo Mathorne
Producer: The Animation Workshop
Denmark, 9'31, 2011
Death stalks the prairie and has no favourites - neither true believers nor crazed hillbillies can hide.