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International Programme 1

Tuesday 23 August 7pm

Come and join us on Opening Night to kick LIAF 05 off in style.

Workin' Progress
G. Garcia, B. Fligans, G. Vandendaele, B. Flinois
France, 2004, 4'15
Maximum Pizzazz!!! Building skyscrapers was never so much fun. And some pretty nifty Glen Miller music for good measure.

Dialog
Stephen Irwin
UK, 2004, 6'45
One mad scientist's social experiment - the creation and destruction of the less than perfect miniature village.

Fish On A Hook
Andy Glynne
UK, 2003, 3'00
A heart rending journey into one man's broken mind.

Glass Crow
Steve Subotnick
USA, 2004, 6'15
A gorgeous, visual journey - true animated art.

Little Things
Daniel Greaves
UK, 2004, 11'00
A comical countdown to frustration and catastrophe.

Moon
Andrea Pierri
Italy, 2003, 4'00
A stunning visualisation of a raw jazz poem.

Stormy Night
Nuit D'Orage
Michele Lemieux
Canada, 2003, 9'45 A sweeping, majestic flight of young fancy.

Four Loves
Ctyri Lasky
Pavel Koutsky
Czech Republic, 2003, 6'30
The latest montage masterpiece from this very popular filmmaker with a style all of his own.

Fallen Art
Tomek Baginski
Poland, 2004, 5'45
From the makers of "The Cathedral", a film of ingenious cruelty.

Ryan
Chris Landreth
Canada, 2004, 13.30
OSCAR WINNER. The film that everybody is talking about; part homage, part documentary, a genuine triumph of style and content.

International Programme 2

Tuesday 23 August 9pm

Son Of Satan
JJ Villard
USA, 2003, 12'50
Inspired by the writings of Charles Bukowski, this piece goes deep inside a bad situation and watches as it gets worse.

Medusa - First Date
Pierce Davison
Australia, 2004, 3'00
Dating Medusa - who can turn you to stone and has snakes for hair? Sounds like a bad idea to us.

Daikon Ashi
Ru Kuwahata
USA, 2004, 1'30
And today's topic is....thighs!

Five O'Clock Shadow
Malcolm Lamont
UK, 2004, 8'30
A forlorn bald man attempts to woo his bearded, jazz singing neighbour.

Balance
Bascule
Sebastien D'abrigeon
France, 2004, 3'30
You probably never knew that umbrellas had so many special powers.

Aquatoria
Andrey Tsvetkov
Bulgaria, 2004, 4'15
A slightly bewildering, entirely beguiling saga of a little Dali fish dreaming of freedom.

Rix Pix Nix Hix
Rick Raxlen
Canada, 2004, 4'45
Another spendid visual overload from Rick Raxlen - many felt pens were probably harmed in the making of this film.

The Birdhouse
John Lewis
Australia, 2004, 5'00
Genuinely creepy. A look inside a world of multiple greys, intrigue and menace.

The Crab's Revolution
Arthur de Pins
France, 2004, 5'00
An international audience favourite. The crab's are getting restless.

Beak/Bek
Lucette Braune
Holland, 2004, 10'00
A powerful, enthralling saga about a special little girl abandoned to the circus.

Guard Dog
Bill Plympton
USA, 2004, 5'00
The release of a new Plympton short is always an occasion. You'll laugh til you bark.

Imprints
Jacques Drouin
Canada, 2004, 6'00
Pinscreen animation - one of the most intriguing and painstaking ways to create a film.

The Man Without A Shadow
Georges Schwizgebel
Switzerland, 2004, 9'30
Simply glorious. A painted and perspective-bending tour de force.

International Programme 3

Wednesday 24 August 7pm

Hairy Driving
Jem Roberts
UK, 2004, 3'00
They don't come much crazier than this. Two guys trying to shoot an illegal car chase movie cross paths with a very unusual cat.

City Paradise
Gaelle Denis
UK, 2004, 6'00
Newly arrived in London, Tomoko discovers a mysterious, friendly city beneath the streets, the buses and the cabs of the 'real' world.

Lua
C. Tschneiller, M. Bouchet
France, 2004, 4'45
An ethereal scene recreated in the most exquisitely rendered cgi watercolour technique.

The Silver Screw
Mary Benn
Australia, 2003, 4'45
A lively take with a sting - or a bump - in the tail.

His Passionate Bride
Monika Forsberg
UK, 2004, 3'00
Marriage is an institution not to be mocked.

Snip
Steven Woloshen
Canada, 2004, 1'45
We're always happy to play Mr Woloshen's cameraless gems and this year's offer is a little beauty.

Saddam And Osama
David Wachtenheim & Robert Marianetti
USA, 2003, 3'45
Politically incorrect - check. Horribly slanderous - check. Too hilarious not to screen - check.

Wind Along The Coast
Ivan Maximov
Russia, 2004, 6'00
Life can be a bizarre and unpredictable thing when you live on a very windy coastline.

A Buck's Worth
Tatia Rosenthal
USA, 2004, 6'30
Outstanding storytelling technique. A film that thoroughly explores the dark manipulative depths of a clever homeless man.

Populi
David Russo
USA, 2003, 8'00
A virtuoso example of pixillation; a veritable energiser-bunny version of the technique.

Heavy Pockets
Sarah Cox
UK, 2004, 6'00
Rocks in the pocket are perfect ballast when trying to float above the bullies.

More Sensitive
Gail Noonan
Canada, 2003, 2'00
Even a drunken audience can't squeeze the art out of this singer's performance.

Lorenzo
Michael Gabriel
USA, 2004, 4'45
Disney bursts back onto the short film scene with this amazing piece about a cat with a tail which has a life and will all of its own.

Poldek
Claudius Gentinetta
Switzerland, 2004, 11'00
High octane, boldly coloured, over-caffeinated madness - a town square succumbs to one animators imagination.

International Programme 4

Thursday 25 August 7pm

Mechanism
Mechaniek
Rene Adema
Holland, 2004, 3'30
An absorbing blend of simplicity and mind-bending ingenuity - a kind of jazz engine!

Lloyd In The Corner
Nicholas Losse
UK, 2004, 7'00
Somewhere in the limbo between elevenses and lunchtime where not much ever really happens….

Lightman
Shaun Clark
UK, 2005, 7'00
Imagine animated stained glass. Imagine a guy obsessed with collecting lightbulbs. Imagine the creative possibilities of mixing the two.

Gopher Broke
Jeff Fowler
USA, 2004, 4'15
A highly evolved little gopher applies some simple roadside technology to dislodge his lunch from passing trucks.

Birthday Boy
Sejong Park
Australia, 2004, 9'15
In the Korean war, a young boy returns home to find a parcel on his doorstep which will change his life forever.

Frank
Taruto Fuyama
Japan, 2003, 5'45
A pure no holds barred, comic inspired, psychedelic, surrealist visual overload - in black and white.

Perfect
Sally Ann Arthur
UK, 2004, 3'00
A cornucopia of a hopeless home handyman's fixer-ups and mishaps.

Mad Action: "Smile"
Jonas Odell
UK, 2004, 4'00
An animation overload set to music.

Portrait Of D./Retrato de D. Maria Carmen Hernandez
Spain, 2004, 8'30
Portrait art and animation collide in a journey to find one (famous) man's identity.

Pssst
Anne-Marie Sirios
Canada, 2003, 4'00
An abstract visual treat. Bold design, strong primary colours and a beautiful soundtrack combine.

Nibbles
Chris Hinton
USA, 2003, 4'00
The documented tribulations of how much food needs to be gathered in the course of organising a good fishing trip.

Minotauromaquia - Pablo en el Laberinto
Juan Pablo Etcheverry
Spain, 2004, 10'00
Art upon art - Picasso finds himself deep in the texture of one of his paintings running from various characters he has created.

The Old Crocodile
Koji Yamamura
Japan, 2005, 13'00
A crocodile befriends an octopus, but decides he wants to eat one of the octopus's legs….

International Programme 5

Friday 26 August 7pm

The Cummerbund
Shelly Wain
UK, 2004, 3'15
"The little beasties twittering cry rose on the fragrant air". Deep inside a very different kind of jungle.

Prudence: "Rightly Or Wrongly"/Prudence: "A Tort Ou A Raison"
Joris Clerte
France, 2004, 2'00
A table top scene leaps into life as the remnants of the night's fine time take on a life of their own.

My Grandpa
Muj Ded
Petr Marek
Czech Republic, 2003, 6'00
Way, waaaay out there. Demented is one thing, this is another. This Grandpa has the stage to himself.

Traffic
Jose Vonk
Holland, 2004, 5'00
There is much more to this than first meets the eye. Traffic strips animation back to its fundamentals and then starts piling on the layers.

Peace Running
UK, 2004, 0'30
Occasionally a TV ad is sooooo animatedly unignorable that we just have to put it in to the festival.

The Unswept Floor
Jane Hubbard
UK, 2003, 4'45
A gentle descent through one floor that has served many centuries.

Wind's Embrace
Abraco Do Vento
Jose Miguel Ribeiro
Portugal, 2004, 2'30
In a world where iron and land mix themselves creating unexpected cities, the wind blows life among leaves in the eternal rebirth cycle. This is the wind's embrace.

Reaction
Martin Morris
UK, 2004, 3'45
An angry reaction to the world around us.

Red Handed
La Main Dans le Sac
Sophie Dupont
France, 2004, 3'00
With a nod to Latrec, a tango in the park emerges at the end of a red pastel crayon.

Success With Sweat Peas
Samantha Moore
UK, 2004, 5'45
Everybody needs a hobby - and nurturing sweet peas is as fine as any.

A Musical Shop
Vladimir Mouat
2003, Russia, 8'00
Two crickets and a very unusual fly get down to business in a music store.

The Meaning of Life
Don Hertzfeldt
USA, 2005, 12'00
A vast beautiful study of time, death, life and Tchaikovsky.

Welcome To Kentucky
Craig Welch
Canada, 2004, 12'00
Immaculately detailed, pencil point animation - a kind of visual poem.

The Beezes - Due South
Grega Mastnak
Slovenia, 2003, 5'00
Imagine Seuss taking some of the 'special' red pills. A weird and wild little tale featuring some weird and wild little creatures of no fixed abode.

International Programme 6

Friday 26 August 9pm

A Perfect Day
Barry Murphy
UK, 2004, 3'00
Studies of two-dimensional lines in a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.

Fishes
Mirek Nisenbaum
USA, 2003, 2'00
A shortened, drunken, heavily hammed up version of the anti-classic shocker that was the theme to The Titanic.

Kinetics 2
Annemarie Szeleczky
Australia, 2003, 2'30
Textured, multi layered and full of visual surprises, a superb follow up to last year's well received "Collage Kinetics".

Don't Push Your Luck
Pousse Pas Le Bouchon
Louise-Marie Colon and 15 children aged 10-13
Belgium, 2003, 8'30
We were AMAZED. An accomplished film created by kids as young as 10 depicting the tensions and frustrations of a traffic jam.

Poteline
Chloe Miller
France, 2004, 2'15
A collection of latter day Rapunzels let their hair down.

Colour Keys
David Daniels
UK, 2004, 4'00
A gentle-on-the-eye abstracted piece that sets some piano keys loose.

Winter
Andy Collen & Amy Collen
USA, 2004, 6'00
All the elegant, graceful beauty of a snowcovered winter day flows from the screen into the theatre.

The Hitchhiker
De Lifter
Sjeng Schupp
Germany, 2004, 5'00
Visually about as bold as they come - a big, colourful woodcut style. The film gets right inside the urban hitchhiking experience and has a pretty cool soundtrack as a bonus.

A Back Bone Tale
Une Histoire Vertebrale
Jeremy Clapin
France, 2004, 9'00
An oddly endearing tale that proves there really, really is someone for everyone.

Snow Will Cover The Roads
Yeugeniy Sivokon
Ukraine, 2003, 7'15
Classic eastern European animation style. The weather flows off the screen into our laps and we are transported into the life of a village family.

Accordion
Michelle Cournoyer
Canada, 2004, 6'15
A powerful and, at times, disquieting film steeped in black humour, it draws its energy from the personal clashes that exist within us all.

Insomnia
Vladimir Leschiov
Latvia, 2004, 7'00
Somewhere between sleep and reality is a cat and a cow.

The Regulator/Le Regulateur
Phillipe Grammaticopoulos
France, 2004, 15.30
Totally unique visual style. A cryptic, engrossing, mind-twisting journey into the world of making babies.

International Programme 7
Computer Animation Panorama

Wednesday 24 August 9pm

Overtime
O. Atlan, T. Berland, D. Ferrie
France, 2004, 5'00
A sinister herd of grey Kermit-like frogs slowly emerge as the force unto themselves.

In The Rough
Paul Taylor
USA, 2004, 4'50
As long as there have been caves to live in, there have been blokes getting kicked out of them. Domestic bliss in a time before automatic dishwashers.

Watermelon Love
Joji Kouama
UK, 2004, 3'05
One lonely girl and her watermelon.

Ofanim
Oblong
UK, 2004, 2'35
A simple idea taken to extraordinary lengths.

Impasse
J. Buquet, F.X. Colin, D. Hoizey, F. Yorgandjian
France, 2004, 5'40
Incredible detail and a kind of mind-warping alteration of space are just the stepping off point when you enter this strange inner world.

Exhausted: The War
Dan Hartney / Ben Tiefholz / Brad May
Australia, 2004, 6'00
A battalion of Happy Faces arm up and head for the battlefield.

Dream Within A Dream
Felicity Rogers
New Zealand, 2004, 8'55
Re-animated hands and kitsch live action combine to produce a unique lakescape of wonder.

Vita Ex Musica
A. Dekerle, L. Lagrange, A. Lusbaronian
France, 2004, 9'05
This creepy, deconstructed concertmaster takes control of a musical space unlike any other you have seen.

Loop
J. Rancoeur, V. Baertsoen, E. Boyard, C. Blanchard
France, 2004, 8'10
Our hero, the snail, makes its way through an ever changing, constantly redesigning electronic landscape.

Fallen
Peter Kaboth
Germany, 2004, 5'50
When run through the harddrive, falling is more an optional state of mind than a necessary physical condition.

9
Shane Acker
USA, 2004, 10'45
It's tough at the bottom. Two little guys just trying to get the electrics up and running.

Rockfish
Tim Miller
USA, 2003, 8'00
A hunter goes after the hideous creature that swims beneath the earth's crust.

International Programme 8
Digital Abstracte: The Digital Space

Thursday 25 August 9pm

Digital animation means different things to different people. As well as describing the tools an animator can adopt, it can also describe a particular look, rhythm or feel of a particular piece of moving image artwork. The depiction of human characters continues to challenge digital animators but, in many ways, the most significant triumphs of this artform are the bold, imaginative ways that new rules are being written to depict space, environments and the relationships objects have with each other. This programme is one glimpse into the digital space.

Obras
Hendrick Dusollier
France, 2004, 12'00
This magnificent feat of filmmaking creates a virtual tour of the ruins of Barcelona.

Empire
Edouard Salier
France, 2005, 4'10
The perfect juxtaposition - an invisible array of modern weaponry is imposed onto real footage of a more gentle time.

Ninja Tune: Highlights
This legendary UK music video label was created in 1990 by Coldcut. Eschewing the normal desire to have their work screened on TV, they instead concentrate on works which turn up in the clubs, raves and concerts that matter. Here are three highlights - Jaga Jazzist: Animal Chin (by AKFF!), Daedalus: Just Briefly (by Ben List) and Bonobo: Flutter (by Ben White & Chris Rule). Enjoy.

The Journey
Friedrich Kirschner
Germany, 2004, 7'40
A charming, although somehow fraught, journey through a gently undulating digital series of rolling hills.

Grau
Robert Seidel
Germany, 2004, 10'01
Pure digital abstraction at its very finest and most imaginative.

Will The Summer Make Good For All Of Our Sins
Marc Craste
UK, 2004, 4'00
A truly creepy, nightmarish world almost threatens to seep off the screen and slowly spread its tentacles into the theatre.

Kontrol-Eskape
mAt&spoN
France, 2005, 12'00
Digital animation legend 'mAt&poN' thrusts his latest masterpiece onto the screen. A demented hand rampages through a machine cityscape.

Don't Touch Me When I Start To Feel Safe
Brigitta Bodenauer
Austria, 2004, 5'00
An utterly transfixing digital manipulation of photo-realistic figures.

Loop
J. Rancoeur, V. Baertsoen, E. Boyard, C. Blanchard
France, 2004, 8'00
An astoundingly rich 3 dimensional world traversed simultaneously by a speeding camera and a crawling snail.

International Programme 9
Long Shorts

Saturday 27 August 7pm

A Room Nearby
Paul Fierlinger / Sandra Fierlinger
USA, 2004, 27'00
All of us have stories to tell and many of them take time to tell properly. Legendary director Milos Forman takes his turn but there are tales from mere mortals as well; their stories no less compelling.

The Candles
Victor Azeev
Russia, 2003, 15'45
A family of candles gradually illuminate a room teeming with living, animated objects in this surprisingly affecting pixillation masterpiece.

Butterfly
Corin Hardy
UK, 2003, 30.00
A film about Jesus, street drugs, a talking toilet and the ties that bind us. The full story takes a long time to fully reveal itself but all the ingredients are there from the first frame

La Piccola Russia
Gianluigi Toccafondo
Italy, 2004, 16'30
A stunning tour de force of handmade animation. This gorgeous, painterly film sets a dark drama of love and loneliness in Central Italy.