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LIAF Opening Gala: The Playful Worlds of Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson (15*)

London International Animation Festival 2018

,Barbican Cinema 1
Scroogin on a greg part of The Playful Worlds of Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson

Come and celebrate the opening of LIAF 2018 with a very special event – an evening with two of the most entertaining and talented young animators working in the UK today.

Insane pigeons, a misguided monkey, the existential crisis of an animated GIF, stifled musicians, the poetry of Robert Burns and fracking are just some of the characters and subjects tackled in the animated worlds of Scotland’s most dynamic double-act: Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson.

Graduates from Edinburgh College of Art’s animation degree course, Will and Ainslie’s worldwide reputation has a bulging awards cabinet as testament to their talent.

LIAF presents a career-spanning retrospective of their inventive, emotional, hilarious and fundamentally entertaining collective of work. 

Will and Ainslie join us onstage to discuss the many facets of their award-winning careers in animation and screen many of their films including a sneak peak of their forthcoming feature Dom.
 

Tagged with: LIAF 2018

Programme

It’s About Spending Time Together
A very moving and long-overdue apology to Ainslie’s brother Oliver.
Winner of the BAFTA New Talent Award 2012
UK 2010 Dir Ainslie Henderson 3min

The Pigeons’ Tour of Scotland - Hawick
Pigeons’, Ainslie & Will, are taking in Scotland’s sights and seeking inspiration. Ains teaches Will the Hawick tongue.
UK 2016 Dir Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson 3min

The Making of Longbird
A behind-the-scenes look at the battle of all battles raging between an animator and a character that just won’t do what it is commanded to.
Winner of multiple awards Worldwide including BAFTA 2013
UK 2011 Dir Will Anderson 15min

I Am Tom Moody
A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician, wracked with self-doubt, as he struggles to sing.
UK 2012 Dir Ainslie Henderson 7min

Scroogin on a Greg
Pigeon pushing smoking.
UK 2012 Dir Will Anderson 1min

Monkey Love Experiments
A misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon.
UK 2014 Dir Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson 9min

The Infinity Project
Please support independent animation and help save these forgotten, malformed and starving drawings.
UK 2015 Dir Will Anderson 3min

Fracking. It’s Fucking Brilliant
Scotland's smartest pro-Fracking campaigner tells it like it is.
UK 2014 Dir Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson 2min

The Pigeons’ Tour of Scotland - Ayr
Pigeons’, Ainslie & Will, are taking in Scotland’s sights and seeking inspiration. This time, they land on Robert Burns house and develop their poetry skills.
UK 2017 Dir Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson 2min

James ‘Moving On’
Death as a birth in a world of string. Music video for the band ‘James’.
UK 2014 Dir Ainslie Henderson 4min

My Best Friend ‘Explodes’
Two reflexive animated characters cling to sanity inside the changing parameters of their world. The first of three short films made for ‘Adult Swim’.
UK 2018 Dir Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson 1min

Have Heart
A looping animated GIF has an existential crisis.
BAFTA nominated 2017
UK 2017 Dir Will Anderson 12min

My Best Friend ‘Rewinds’
Two reflexive animated characters cling to sanity inside the changing parameters of their world. The second of three short films made for ‘Adult Swim’.
UK 2018 Dir Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson 1min

Dom (Feature film teaser trailer)
Cancer strikes a young animator’s mother, propelling him into finding emotional solace in a curious cat called Dom.
UK 2018 Dir Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson 2min

Stems
A eulogy to the short life span of stop-motion animation puppets.
BAFTA Scotland winner 2015
UK 2015 Dir Ainslie Henderson 2min

Work-in-Progress: Shackle (clip) and Betty (clip)
UK 2018 Dir Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson 5min

My Best Friend ‘Ends’
Two reflexive animated characters cling to sanity inside the changing parameters of their world. The last of three short films made for ‘Adult Swim’.
UK 2018 Dir Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson 1min

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