FILM SCREENING
LIAF 2024: Stop motion Panorama
LITTLE VENICE
Nov 28th 7PM
FILM SCREENING
LIAF 2024: Stop-motion Panorama
AGE 15+
The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2024) - the UK’s largest and longest-running animation festival is back with 10 days of amazing screenings, talks, discussions and events from November 22 to December 1.
We are especially excited to return to the Puppet Theatre Barge with a special screening showcasing the best stop-motion films made in the last year. These films are all screening in competition and the best film as chosen by our judges will be announced and re-screened at the Best of the Fest screening at the Barbican on Sunday December 1.
Since the dawn of cinema puppet animation has provided some of the most mesmerising films ever made and puppet animators have been among the most revered. Breathing a kind of life into inanimate puppets is a very special form of magic and this programme showcases the continuing vibrancy of this technique. Puppet films should always look like they were handmade. The movements are not always clean, super smooth and flawless. The characters in the films should ‘feel’ real…. because they are! It is these quirks and wonderful little imperfections that make these films so special and define some of the most important elements of a puppet film.
These 9 thought-provoking, moving and downright loopy short puppet films have been made by some of the most talented independent animators in the last few years from their different bunkers around the world proving that tangible and physical stop-motion and puppet animation is alive and well and in rude health in the 21st century. Long may it prosper!
Total running time: approx 80 mins
Please visit https://liaf.org.uk/ for more details
Featured Animations:
Beautiful Men
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a
hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
Belgium, France, Netherlands 2024 Dir: Nicolas Keppens 18’50
Baggage
A girls trip with baggage!
Australia, UK 2024 Dir: Lucy Davidson 4’50
My Organs Lying on the Ground
Based on a Japanese folk belief called Womb Diving (“Tainai Kuguri” ) - the cycle of life and
death as depicted through insects, animals, grass, grain, and many other things in the
surrounding world.
Japan 2024 Dir: Shinobu Soejima 11’00
My Jacket
Precocious middle-schooler Lilah has misplaced her jacket. The story of how she lost it will
take her and her two sisters on an epic adventure across the high seas, to the bottom of the
ocean, and even out of this world.
UK 2024 Dir: Chesley Cannon 5’25
Humantis
Humantises are masters of deception. But can they hide from change? When one Humantis
unexpectedly goes through a physical transformation, it struggles to adapt and grow into its
new self.
USA 2024 Dir: Paris Baillie 9’15
Underground
The last shovelful plunges the shot into darkness. A stop motion film that seems to be talking
about death, yet does the exact opposite.
Greece 2024 Dir: Yiannis Christoforou 7’20
Hot Mess
A voice message triggers all sorts of anxieties in Andro, but will they be pressured into trying
to change their ways?
UK 2024 Dir: Tortor Smith 3’10
Adios
Out hunting one day in rural Spain, a father struggles to accept that his adult son is moving
abroad and is dealing with feelings of being left alone.
UK 2024 Dir: José Prats 8’35
Tennis, Oranges
A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find
community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in
perpetual loops.
USA 2024 Dir: Sean Pecknold 10’50
