It is with great pleasure that Edge of Frame curated by Edwin Rostron returns to LIAF after a two year hiatus. This year Edge of Frame presents two programmes of experimental animation, taking the viewer on a journey of portals, windows and cosmic thresholds, into new realities and transitional spaces. The first selection explores social and psychological realms, escaping from the gateways of technology and capitalism through the doors of perception, to return to our primordial beginnings. The&nbsp;second programme&nbsp;focuses on the portals within our landscapes, in the mutable surfaces of what we call nature. Old and new meet, mysterious energies flow and sites of connection and unification are revealed.&nbsp; The works in these programmes blur the boundaries between past and present, landscape and technology, human and nonhuman, inner and outer. From brand new films to historical classics these two selections present a dazzling window onto experimental animation practice. Recommended age 15

Portales follows the course of the Guadalete river in Cádiz, Spain, from the mountains to the sea: a catalogue of landscapes that hide other landscapes, a collection of interdimensional portals (and postcards) that fuse live action and animation.

Portales

Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals of Mongolia and Siberia, as told by my grandmother, this handmade animation explores the Indigenous worldview and its wisdom.

The Fourfold

An animated meditation on wide-open water-logged lands as imagined from an urban interior: a property-guardian tower-block flat in east London.

Water Meadow

Drawing with light, water and natural lime, this experimental animation reflects on home, the queer migrant’s return, and the body as a site of 'multi- becoming'.

Raining Through My Bones

“Fracture” mines the slips between stillness and motion, as cracks and fissures of bark and stone are spliced and layered, frame by frame, intersecting slices of time.

Fracture

Using real world locations in Essex, this experimental digital animation explores transitional/peripheral spaces and realms navigated by a reanimated rave mascot and a wooden Neolithic fertility figure.

(third study for) Swedge of Heaven

Powered by a mysterious energy flow, a world develops around the creations of human and animal species that live in these places.

Le Rayon Vert

Edge of Frame: Portals Programme 2

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