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Max C. 🇵🇸

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4 months ago

From The Best of the Fest: Florrie Macleod accepting her Best Children’s Film Award 0-7 for A Clayful Adventure

Trevor Hardy accepting his Best Children’s Film Award 8-15 for Buckshot

Arturs Voblikovs accepting his Best British Film Award for Film Film

Producer Marianne Ostrat, accepting director Anu-Laura Tuttelberg’s Best Film of the Festival award for On Weary Wings Go By (a *pretty* good film)

Another good #LIAF, another evening of being taken off guard by the judges’ oddly specific taste. Some pretty severe bias with some of these winners (that baker mushroom gets no respect!) but it was great to see a few of these the way they deserve to be projected. I’m going to miss those frog butts.

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Max C. 🇵🇸

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4 months ago

Martin Pickles (I am a Rebel), Lewis Heriz (On Hannah Fields), Livvy Seabrook-Wilkins (Strokes of Wildflowers), Chantal Peten (Biting the Hand That Feeds You) and Iselda Milenkovic (Warp and Weft)

Penultimate day of #LIAF began with beautifully produced documentaries, e.g. an animated interview with Bob Godfrey and a comedy about meeting festival deadlines as a mum. Most of 15min+ shorts flew right by. Loved the furry bus one and the simultaneously thoughtful and brain-breaking Ploo the most.

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Max C. 🇵🇸

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4 months ago

Stop Motion Panorama

Tokay (Double or Nothing), again with his Kashiwagi puppet

Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli, director of Tethered

#LIAF is ambitious as to show their films with puppets in a barge filled with puppets, and me as to take a tube up there. The best films I’d seen at MAF, but noteworthy are Joseph Wallace’s puppet comedy, the striking On Weary Wings Go By and an incident at Chernobyl that should happen to Mr. Beast.

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Max C. 🇵🇸

@maxisherealso.bsky.social

4 months ago

#LIAF
The Horse Hospital felt like a suitable environment, if not the ideal projection, for these animated grotesqueries, from Praying Mantis to Poggi + Vanel’s VR nightmare The Exploding Girl. Plus a few markedly improved by a rewatch, and a deeply unsettling array of sounds titled The Devil Room.

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Max C. 🇵🇸

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4 months ago

Ben Jackson (producer of Two Black Boys in Paradise), Danielle Rhoda Addae-Boateng (Apple Gatherers), Jonathan Djob Nkondo (Fiente), Simone Giampaolo (Only a Child), Nathan Addai (Mental Roots), Neeraja Raj (Meow or Never) and Baz Sells (Two Black Boys in Paradise), with Osbert Parker in front, after Disrupting the Narrative – The Beauty of Resilience in the Face of Adversity

#LIAF
Disrupting the Narrative summed up what animation is capable of as a call to action, and the value of putting trust in your collaborators and audience. Two Black Boys and the brutal Machini represented it best for me. And what better way to cap it off than a film as wholesome as Meow or Never?

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Max C. 🇵🇸

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4 months ago

Lesley Posso, editor of Ovary-Acting, introducing From Absurd to Zany

Matilde Pagnini and Imogen Longley, animators on Dog Alone, introducing Being Human

#LIAF day 3 and From Absurd to Zany, which half consisted of rewatches, still illustrated why I wish I always had time to attend this particular programme in person. That and the occasionally bleak but also life-affirming Being Human programme were this festival’s two most exciting programmes yet.

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Max C. 🇵🇸

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4 months ago

Ed Winters, producer of Matilda and the Brave Escape, introducing Marvellous Animations for 8-15 Year Olds

#LIAF
I worry for this generation. Apart from the Strike director’s dastardly Buckshot, I doubt any of the kids behind me, whose parents were straining to calm them down, actually watched these inventive, resonant animations. Did they like them enough to vote for them? Well, at least my aisle did.

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Max C. 🇵🇸

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4 months ago

Alice Eça Guimarães (Because Today is Saturday), Luisa Zürcher (I’m Not Sure) and Justine Klaiber (Lost Touch) for Playing with Emotion

Laura Beth-Cowley (The Gift), May Kindred-Boothby (The Eating of an Orange) and Lizzie Watts (Fried!) with Abigail Addison for Figures in Focus: Skin Shows, a programme centred on women’s body image and body horror

#LIAF day 2 saw me attending my first Abstract Showcase in person, because experimental animation is food for my autism. Meejin Hong’s endless, anxious delve into her mind, Deluge, got my vote. For Playing with Emotion, it was Because Today is Saturday, and not just because I ended up next to Alice.

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Max C. 🇵🇸

@maxisherealso.bsky.social

4 months ago

Framed abstract designs used in Emma Calder’s final film, House of Love

Jez Stewart moderating the Q&A for A Tribute to Emma Calder: Fierce and Independent to the End, with Julian Cripps (giving his late wife three cheers), Ged Haney, Jonathan Hodgson, Coco Cripps and Fiona Woodcock

For British Showcase: Andrew Kelleher & Dave Anderson (Flang meets Darwin), Lizzie Watts (Fried!), Seb Cox (The Dog in the Long Grass), Will Anderson (Existential Greg), Shaun Clark (Angry Cars), Eilidh Nicol (Steeping), Nour Khamis (How to Build a Sand Castle), Elmaz Ekrem Littlewood (The Last Gammon), May Kindred-Boothby (The Eating of an Orange), Qianhui Yu (Statue in the Garden), Arturs Voblikovs (Film Film) and Mingqi Yang (Another Foggy Day)

#LIAF day 1! First we gave three cheers to the late Queen of Collage and revisited her filmography up to her graceful swan song, House of Love. Already saw a few of the British Showcase’s standouts at MAF, but that didn’t stop me from staying the night for several other gems. Existential Greg is me.

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Max C. 🇵🇸

@maxisherealso.bsky.social

4 months ago

#LIAF
At this year’s London International Animation Festival, I’m going to be attending all of the International Competition programmes in venue, because I’m that sick of Eventive. Even though I’ve previously seen a dozen of the selected films in Manchester. I’m obsessed!

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