LONDON: The Horse Hospital

Friday 2nd November, 2012

7:00pm

Event information

The London International Animation Festival (LIAF) proudly showcases the whole spectrum of creative animation, showing that animation is for everyone. LIAF aims to dispel the popular misconception that animation is just cartoons for kids by screening the broadest possible range of intelligent, entertaining and provocative current films on offer from all around the world as well as retrospectives and specialised sessions from countries and animators who don't normally elicit such attention.

Our 11 day festival continues tonight with 2 sessions at the Horse Hospital - 7:30 Best Music Videos and 9:30pm: Late Night Bizarre.
For more details about the whole festival programme please check out our website at www.liaf.org.uk.

7-30pm: MUSIC VIDEOS
Animation is an integral element in many of the best music videos. Producing them also provides a credible, often commercially viable way for animators to earn a living from their skills and still produce work they can be proud of.

Here are 18 of the world’s best and most innovative music videos produced in the last 12 months in a special programme providing a visual mash-up of styles, techniques and genres.

Music videos screening:
1. Spencer Krug and Sunset Rubdown - Nightingales in December – Theodore Ushev
2. Lorn - Ghosst(s) – CRCR
3. Wagon Christ – Chunkothy – Celine
4. Bjork 'Crystalline' - Peter Sluszka and Michel Gondry
5. The Beards 'Got Me A Beard' - Chris Edser, Bill Northcott and Jarrod Prince
6. Scratch Bandits Crew - Heart Beat - Nicolas Dufoure/Icecream
7. We Cut Corners 'The male mind' - Remy M Larochelle
8. Bonobo 'Eyesdown' - Anthony Schepperd
9. Kottarashky and the rain Dogs – Demoni – Theodore Ushev
10. My Dry Wet Mess – Etc - Martin Allais
11. Moones 'Better Energy' - Peter Sluszka
12. We Cut Corners 'Pirates Life' - Kijek/Adamski
13. Lorn 'Weigh Me Down' - Max Friedrich
14. Dirty Alice 'Power Crown' - Chris Bristow
15. Boy- ‘Joey’ – Fluorescent Hill
16. Gotye ‘Making Mirrors’ - Gina Thorstensen & Nacho Rodriguez
17. Cornershop featuring Izzy Lindqwister 'Who's Gonna Lite Up' - Rocket Science (Vidya Sharma and Rajesh Thomas)
18. Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce - Matt Mahurin

9-30pm: LATE NIGHT BIZARRE
LIAF’s annual, ever popular, irresistible, train-wreck of a programme – you wanna’ turn away but you know you can’t. Expect meat in all the wrong places, drunk babies, slimy politicians, Siamese twins, deranged zombies and Yoko Ono!

Films screening:
Arts and Crafts Spectacular 2
Directors: Wolf and Ritterskamp
Germany, 7’50, 2012
Entangled histories transform a museum into a sitcom. Jeff Koons meets Cicciolina, Yoko Ono talks about meeting John Lennon.

Lazarov
Director: Nieto
France, 5’00, 2011
Refusing to accept the decline of the U.S.S.R., a handful of Russian scientists work secretly to resurrect Soviet power through the mysterious program Lazarov.

tWINs
Director: Peter Budinsky
Slovakia, 5’26, 2011
Siamese twins fight it out in the boxing ring but the competition really heats up when it’s time for bed.

Frosted Chocolate Mouse
Director: Donato ‘Milkyeyes’ Sansone
Italy, 2'43, 2011
Conjoined twins, a flock of birds, a flotilla of fish and a spooky rabbit.

Mulvar Is Correct Candidate
Director: Patrick Desilets
Canada, 1'08, 2011
Mulvar make precious fuel come from eyes! Vote Mulvar.

SPONCHOI Pispochoi
Directors: Pecoraped (Ikue Sugidono, Miyako Nishio)
Japan, 6'07, 2010
Warts! Moles. Oh, let's start exchanging.

Rosette
Directors: Romain Borrel, Gael Falzowski, Benjamin Rabaste, Vincent Tonelli
France, 5’03, 2011
In a cured meats deli, a customer starts fantasising about the butcher and a universe of pork products.

The Scream
Director: Sebastian Cosor
Romania, 3’23, 2011
“I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red…. and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”
Edvard Munch, 1893

What Does Otto See?
Director: Neil Baker
UK, 6’35, 2011
Otto, a decrepit busking hobo, bashes out a jaunty tune on his toy piano to amuse passers by and hopefully earn him the odd coin.

Bugu
Director: Aynur Fomin Çatal
Turkey, 3’10, 2011
Bugu’s gentle walk in the countryside is interrupted by underground demons.

Koppiekrauw
Director: Erik Butter
Netherlands, 1’30, 2011
One very bad parrot.

Zombirama
Directors: Ariel López V & Nano Benayón
Argentina, 7’00, 2011
March 1976. Buenos Aires is invaded by a group of zombies. The plague grows, enveloping the city with fear and desolation, and finds its climax in the Nineties.

Organopolis
Director: Nieto
France, 2’30, 2011
The physical and emotional journey affecting a young pupil's everyday life through the reactions of their body organs.

Las Palmas
Director: Johannes Nyholm
Sweden, 13’00, 2011
A tragicomic version of Easy Rider featuring the Director’s baby in the combined roles of Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.