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“Symbols” is a short animation for introducing the LIAF Abstract Showcase program. It's about text, symbols, language, and communication, trying to explore the concept of abstract through the conversion between natural language and constructed language in a more relaxed and simple way. When text symbols are isolated from their linguistic contexts, how could they be understood and communicated in a chaotic contemporary context?
What’s an IKEA table breaking point at the weight of a crumbling friendship? A cubist short about two friends, a lost table and its replacement.
Animated short film
A grieving woman comes to terms with the loss of her baby by welcoming wild animals into her garden.
Depicts the childhood memory of Blyth trying on his father’s boxers at age eight, before leaving for Brownies still wearing them under his uniform. This memory is one of many that have contributed to Blyth understanding that his gender identity did not align with the sex he was assigned at birth, leading to the artist coming out as transgender at eighteen.
Are you a dog or a cat person? If you favour the felines then this animated meditation on cats of all shapes and sizes is for you. The film grew out of industry veteran Vera Linnecar's play with applying mottled coloured paints directly onto animation cels. Paired with the piano music these scenes are a playful experiment, mixing abstraction with careful observation of cat behaviour. Vera started her animation career at the Halas & Batchelor studio in 1940, as did Elizabeth Horn, who also worked on this film. Moving from tracing, to inbetweening, to animating, Vera became one the company's principle artists. In the late 1940s she moved to the Larkins studio which better suited her experimental spirit. In 1957, along with Nancy Hanna, she joined Bob Godfrey and Keith Learner at Biographic, and continued innovating there until she retired in 1983, after four decades in the business.
Animation of turn-of-the-century circus "freaks".
Cartoon about a delusional man and his cat.
Christmas idents from mid-90s directed by Joan Ashworth for the BBC. Transmitted in separate parts, but released on YouTube as a whole. Won a BAFTA.
This mini-opera, animated in charcoal, reimagines Georges Bizet’s Carmen and its enduring relevance to issues of sexuality and conflict. In this new work, Carmen is stripped of her usual associations, including gender, race, place and time, leaving only a universal human figure and Bizet’s oiseau rebelle (rebel bird), two alter egos competing for love. This struggle leads to rebirth and a new future.
Short animated film tells the story of an unlikely friendship between an oprhan boy and a small robot, both alone, exploited by neglectful grown-ups.
Luwi is rushing to the health centre. He's heard that contraception is dangerous, and he must warn his wife before it's too late! A high-impact TV ad that reached millions across East and Central Africa.
A poetic dance and animation film in which a dancer realises their digital self feels truer than their real world self.
A futuristic morality tale: when robots are what you desire, who are you going to love?
A BAFTA award nominated cartoon in aid of National anti-litter week.
Margot has been waiting in her house for 40 years. Her waiting morphs into desperate attention seeking. But she does not wait alone. Marie is becoming. Malleable, she tries to fit, slipping through her body and sliding around corners, picking up cues of who and how to be. Marjorie shines effortlessly. Her dream life, her golden exterior, her pretty performance, prove impossible and impermanent. Mother Flower is everything, the beginning and the end. Hers is a body of pure bounty, longed for, nourishing, sheltering. The four women are joined by a chorus of body parts, hands and tongues, mouths and babies, across grandiose performances, staged death scenes, fledgling steps, and displays of fertility and futility, as they reveal how hard it is to be in a body, to be a body.
A meditation on the dissolution of boundaries between the human form and its surrounding environment.
In a world where the only from of communication is with musical instruments, or creating sounds with their body, it is difficult to make connections. Following through a luscious green and mossy landscape, a small man attempts to play his rhythmic tunes in order to create a loving bond with someone special.
In a presurizing world where Ed wants to live more freely, thus ending up being ostracized by society. One day, whilst walking in line to work, Ed hears a sound, turns around, and sees a hole in his own shadow; revealing a mystical world below. Ed embraces the difference, and decides to jump into the unknown.
"Outsourcing (My Desires to Avatars)" is a machinima and experimental video created by video artist Jamie Janković and writer, poet and director Deborah Findlater. The work is part of an ongoing project addressing the intersectionality of responses to female characters in video games; formally speaking, the work is presented as an audio-visual poem, accompanied by voice over. According to Janković, this work is meant as a response to found footage material of the character Christie from the popular fighting game series "Dead or Alive" (1996 – ongoing). Moreover, the examination of the role of female characters in "Outsourcing (My Desires to Avatars)" is part of a larger project titled "The identity quest series," in which the artist addresses a multiplicity of responses to female video game characters, following engagement in interviews with queer people within the gaming industry and exploring their own views on gender in game design.
Cartoon featuring the characters "The Colonel and Willie (the Worm)", with the colonel attempting to catch the Loss Ness monster.
Three generations of Moroccan women exchange feelings and anecdotes while preparing the traditional ceremony of Eid Al Adha.
Digitally animated, amorphous other-than-human narrators are set against backdrops of water, forests, beaches and skies. Interrupted and overlaid with birdsong, pneumatic drills, fluorescent lights and a Carpenters song, these ‘spirits of place’ appropriate Timothy Morton lectures in an unstable, intense and often absurdly hilarious exploration of the nature of being alive. ‘Therefore, blah blah blah blah blah.’
Billie, overwhelmed and intimidated by the outside world, has confined herself to existence within her box. Can she be convinced the world isn't so scary if she's prepared to step into it?
Join Eric and Lyn, a pair of armchairs who discuss the politics around Britain today. As this country is going through a real shift at the moment –what better time is there to record the thoughts of two elderly British people, to highlight this, than now?
Swanhilda is a happy go lucky Queen Bee. However, motherhood beckons, as an unplanned pregnancy takes her life in a very different direction.
M.E. is an animated documentary about an invisible illness also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or M.E. This is an experiment using different modes of representation: creating a simulation of photophobia by using bright contrast and flashing white frames. Olly’s room is a safe place that protects him from being overwhelmed outside, but at the same time isolates him from the world.
Emergency service personnel talk about the realities of post-traumatic stress disorder, and its impact on their lives and their families.
Crypto art is a thing now!
Farnham wanted to capture the craziness of the last few months of juggling home life, working and home-schooling, whilst staying alert! He 3D-scanned his children taking part in the various banal activities he hadset up for them.
An attempt at a phone call with mum!
Chris, a young crisp-enthusiast leaves an online complaint. He is extremely delighted by the friendly and understanding attitude of the employee who replies to him. Wishing to talk to her again, he continues to message the page, asking questions and trying to win the compassion of his new online-crush.The quest is not easy, as the uninterested employee just tries to do her job, avoiding any topic besides crisps with every occasion. Watch our hero surf through a wondrous digital world of crisp ads, mobile games and emojis as he tries to confess his love.
Gorillaz member 2D protests with people in Tibet
People come, people go - Yet everyone is moving in the same direction. We all are sharing something that we are unaware of, creating one big picture we are unable to see.
An intimate, insightful look into how virtual reality is affecting people’s social lives for the better.
Bartholomew Whisper went to the doctor today. There he met administrators keen on experimental surgery and lonely MRI machines. At least the growing hole in his head is becoming quite beautiful.
An expression and examination of the social problem of black-hearted vaccines that are spreading in China.
What would you do if you had a pill that gave you extendable arms? Bring a whole new world within your reach.
An expressive and dynamic portrait of a man waiting for the object of his desire to make a big decision.
A man wakes up under a butcher's knife.
An exploration of individual identities and family ties using collage and silhouettes.
A woman has to make a decision on what to do whilst living through a period of Period Poverty.
Is hindsight 20:20? Does history reveal or obscure the truth? Can we predict the future? Will history repeat itself? Are we in control?
Perforations made directly into 16mm black leader attempt what Sitney describes in relation to Breer’s 70 as ‘five-frame holds’, whereby methods used to control the movement of onscreen forms have the effect of retarding motion. Small Things confronts the purely plastic problems that persist in the manually made film, of registering marks in the same place over a series of frames. At the same time it does not discourage the interpretation of these forms as a gathering, not so much of particles, but rather of a swarm or a murmuration.
A young black man in an oppressive urban environment finds a new outlook by embracing his African roots.
Lance White portrays the Fuhrer as a short-tempered incompetent in his slapstick Adolf's Busy Day.
In a major match at Wimbledon, the champion is losing to a newcomer to the tournament. When they take a break between games the tournament comes down to the mind games that the two play against each other.
A short story about two awkward neighbours, gardening, freelance life and an irrational feeling of being watched.
In a small English Town square a struggling painter does battle with a bee to protect his final masterpiece from the insect's tiny hands.
Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket for her friend Akeyo. Which fruit will Akeyo like best, she wonders. After a long walk to the next village, the answer turns out to be a big surprise!
Follows the life of a Neapolitan Femminiello in the back alleys and narrow streets of the Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish neighbourhood in Naples). It ends with the traditional Matrimonio dei Femminielli, the annual street parade to celebrate the fictional wedding of a Femminiello.
Features the characters Sammy and Sausage - this week Sausage has a romance.
A young girl deals with the consequences of swallowing her chewing gum when previously being warned about it.
History of headgear told through cartoons and animated sequences by Joe Noble.
After the death of her gentle grandfather—the only protective figure—the filmmaker's mother’s mental state began to unravel. In an attempt to find spiritual grounding and emotional clarity, mother and daughter travel together to Tibet, seeking distance and faith as a way to make sense of their fractured past.
The Loading Nouns come to East London for a delirious dance session in this ingenious film mixing 2D animation of cutout paper characters shot in stop-motion in real-life environments captured in timelapse. The result is intoxicating and leaves you wanting to dance!
Doris, a once-vibrant cardiologist, struggles with Alzheimer’s, her world increasingly clouded with memory-loss. With her daughter’s care and an AI voiced assistant, Doris regains brief clarity.