Booking fees
£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.
Speakers
Abigail Addison
Abigail is a Producer and is co-director of Animate Projects whose mission is to support artists to experiment, collaborate and produce bold animation projects. Her productions include And Granny Would Dance with Maryam Mohajer, whose awards include the Grand Prize for Best Short Animation at Flickers’ Rhode Island IFF, and the Oscar longlisted The Debutante by Elizabeth Hobbs. She has been programming Figures in Focus at the London International Animation Festival since 2017.
https://animateprojects.org/
Laura-Beth Cowley
Laura-Beth is a freelance animator and writer based in Bristol. Her work often centres around misunderstood characters and the people around them. She has worked as a freelance filmmaker, animator, model maker and journalist for several years. She is also Lecturer at UAL: Central Saint Martins MA in Character Animation, as well guest lecturing at other universities. She recently co-authored a book called ‘Intimate Animation’ about the depiction of love, sex and relationships in the animated form.
https://cargocollective.com/laura-bethcowley
May Kindred-Boothby
May is a 2D hand-drawn animation artist and director based in Bristol. She worked as a freelance animator for 8 years before completing her Masters in Animation at the RCA, where she completed her first directorial short The Eating of an Orange. Her new work focuses on surreal explorations of sexuality and convention told through a colourful and painterly hand drawn style.
http://www.maykindredboothby.co.uk
Lizzie Watts
Lizzie is a director and artist. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and Directing Animation at the National Film and Television School. Lizzie's work embraces a unique and expressive style which combines an experimental approach to 3D software and 2D animation. Her films often intersect the mundane with the supernatural and she uses dark comedy as a tool to explore social power dynamics and political themes.
Programme
La Fée des Roberts (The Boob Fairy)
Who will best play her part: the dancing lioness or the little girl we attempt to tame? Only the Boob Fairy will know who is really worthy of her attention.
France 2021 Dir: Léahn Vivier-Chapas 14'00
The Eating of an Orange
A woman living in a world of strict conformity is given an orange. She has never seen an orange. Through her sensual exploration of the fruit she unlocks a luscious realm of orgasmic juice and copulating slugs. But will she follow her desires, or will convention win?
UK 2024 Dir: May Kindred-Boothby 7'30
Hairy Legs
Questioning why she “has to” shave her hairy legs launches one 13-year-old girl on a journey of self-discovery.
Canada 2024 Dir: Andrea Dorfman 17'00
The Gift
Witchcraft, menstruation and the power we hold within. Influenced by a mix of cultural bad luck tropes associated with menstruation. If we take these superstitions as truths, why can’t they be seen as a form of magic themselves?
UK 2019 Dir: Laura-Beth Cowley 3'00
Gakjil (Persona)
The process of being encroached by the persona.
South Korea 2022 Dir: Sujin Moon 6'00
Summer's Puke is Winter's Delight
Even painful events from the past eventually become memories with time. But still, we vomit again — and eat again. Life is ecological.
Japan 2016 Dir: Sawako Kabuki 3'00
Glazing
An animation of the female nude, embodying all of her forms throughout the history of art. Her body twists and gnarls itself into these static poses, but she cannot be contained. In perpetual motion, she is released from her form and allowed to finally stare back at us.
USA 2021 Dir: Lilli Carré 2'00
Fried!
As Dev drives home from a mysterious, ageing nuclear facility, he becomes stranded at an isolated emu farm run by old mystic lesbians. Suspicious of their intentions, Dev fears they will sacrifice him at the local stone circle.
UK 2025 Dir: Lizzie Watts 9'55
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An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition as the voice of the narrator-protagonist reminisces about her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend.
Croatia 2023 Dir: Matea Kovač 7'00
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Mimi is a darkly arch character for our generation who invites us into the topsy-turvy world of end-game capitalism; a 21st century fairy-tale about consumerist desire.
UK 2021 Dir: Rachel MacLean 12'00
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Cinemas
Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.
Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.
