LONDON: The Horse Hospital

Friday 7th December, 2018

7:00pm

Event information

Part one – Chintis Lundgren (starts at 7:30pm)

Chintis Lundgren is an Estonian-born animator who hit the ground running to huge acclaim with her first film in 2008. She soon after established her own independent animation studio and is currently a founder of Adriatic Animation, a new animation studio based on the coast of Croatia, along with her partner Drasko Ivezic.

Chintis is a self-taught animator and quickly gained attention in the animation world for her quirky music videos and short films featuring a light, absurdist tone along with distinct anthropomorphic characters. Her films (including About the Hard Life of the Barn Swallow, the music video, I Love your Face, and the award-winning Life with Herman H. Rott, and her latest work, Manivald) have screened at numerous international animation festivals, winning many awards and accolades along the way.

We are very excited that Chintis Lundgren will be with us in person tonight to discuss and present her films alongside her partner Drasko Ivezic.

Thanks to the Estonian Embassy for helping us bring Chintis to LIAF.

Part two – Estonian animation retrospective (starts at 9pm)
Estonia is a small nation of 1.5 million people nestled at the top of the Baltic group of nations, with Russia on one side and Finland just a short boat journey across the Baltic Sea on the other. This paradoxical geographic position on the cusp of East and West is reflected in the unique animation that has flowed from Estonia’s two animation studios: Nukufilm, a studio specialising in puppet animation; and Joonisfilm, which concentrates predominantly on drawn animation. Other than the children’s films produced to fill government quotas (and to pay the bills), most Estonian animated films plumb extraordinary depths in their exploration of some of mankind’s most elemental issues, fears and desires. At the same time, many are intricately coded political dissertations.

LIAF is very proud to celebrate the centenary of Estonian animation with this very special programme featuring some of the masters of Estonian animation alongside the new generation of youngsters currently making a name for themselves on the international film festival scene.

The 9 films in the programme date from 1972 up to the present day.

Please refer to the LIAF website at www.liaf.org.uk for more details about films screening.

Doors open 7pm
7:30pm – Chintis Lundgren
8-45pm – interval
9pm – Estonian animation retrospective
Ends 10:30pm