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The Barbican Cinema will host the London International Animation Festival which lasts from December 04th to 13th and features a programme that features animated films from around the world.
The festival begins with an Opening Night Gala celebrating 25 years of award-winning work from British animator Barry Purves and then over the course of seven days there will over 200 animated short and feature films that have been selected from 2,400 entries that were submitted to the festival. The films programmed are set to screen across several categories including the International Competition Programmes featuring a British Showcase, Into The Dark scary shorts, and New Japanese Shorts - Beyond Anime.
The last category in particular will be of interest for readers of Anime UK News. New Japanese Shorts - Beyond Anime takes place on Monday December 07th at 9pm and at a time when Independent Japanese animation is featured in many international film festivals like Vancouver and Annecy this is a great opportunity to see some of the more imaginative and experimental titles emerging from new young Japanese animation. Names include animation hotshot Mirai Mizue who is here with what is described as “a merry musical kaleidoscope of colours and shapes dance and transform in this visual firecracker,” and Yoriko Mizushiri who is featured here with her 2014 short Maku, a sensuous and smooth film about bodily contact. This one played at this year’s Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival. You can watch the trailer below:
For those who want more insight into how films are made there will be guests attending the festival including world-renowned animators Barry Purves and Robert Morgan from the UK and Canada’s Luc Chamberland who will deliver workshops, ScreenTalks and career-spanning retrospective screenings. There will also be the UK premiere of Czech feature film <em>Little From the Fish Shop</em> directed by Jan Balej who uses beautiful stop-motion to tell a sad tale based on the classic fairytale The Little Mermaid, and a tribute programme for the recently closed down Netherlands Institute of Animated Film, and two programmes aimed at young cinemagoers from different age groups.
To find out more about the films, head to the festival site and follow it on Twitter.
The festival begins with an Opening Night Gala celebrating 25 years of award-winning work from British animator Barry Purves and then over the course of seven days there will over 200 animated short and feature films that have been selected from 2,400 entries that were submitted to the festival. The films programmed are set to screen across several categories including the International Competition Programmes featuring a British Showcase, Into The Dark scary shorts, and New Japanese Shorts - Beyond Anime.
The last category in particular will be of interest for readers of Anime UK News. New Japanese Shorts - Beyond Anime takes place on Monday December 07th at 9pm and at a time when Independent Japanese animation is featured in many international film festivals like Vancouver and Annecy this is a great opportunity to see some of the more imaginative and experimental titles emerging from new young Japanese animation. Names include animation hotshot Mirai Mizue who is here with what is described as “a merry musical kaleidoscope of colours and shapes dance and transform in this visual firecracker,” and Yoriko Mizushiri who is featured here with her 2014 short Maku, a sensuous and smooth film about bodily contact. This one played at this year’s Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival. You can watch the trailer below:
For those who want more insight into how films are made there will be guests attending the festival including world-renowned animators Barry Purves and Robert Morgan from the UK and Canada’s Luc Chamberland who will deliver workshops, ScreenTalks and career-spanning retrospective screenings. There will also be the UK premiere of Czech feature film <em>Little From the Fish Shop</em> directed by Jan Balej who uses beautiful stop-motion to tell a sad tale based on the classic fairytale The Little Mermaid, and a tribute programme for the recently closed down Netherlands Institute of Animated Film, and two programmes aimed at young cinemagoers from different age groups.
To find out more about the films, head to the festival site and follow it on Twitter.