ANIMATION PROGRAMMES 2010
World Animation Award Part I
Tue 9th Nov, 6.30pm
Town Hall
One of the favourite events in the Film Festival, the World Animation Competition now takes place in the spectacular setting of Leeds Town Hall. This year’s competition is in two parts – there is so much amazing animation to share – and you can see both a double bill price of £10 / £8. Part one includes The Boy Who Wanted to be a Lion, a delightful ochre-coloured animation from the UK in which a reclusive little boy retreats even further from the world after a trip to the zoo. Another highlight is the ectoplasmic Ci sono gli spiriti, a half-remembered dream of nocturnal walks around empty rooms where the spirits converge.
World Animation Award Part II
Thu 11th Nov, 6pm
Town Hall
One of the annual highlights of the Film Festival and a programme that is always packed with wonders, the World Animation Competition presents a second hand-picked selection, from the serious to seriously crazy. See gems from new talent such as the highly imaginative Greek animation The Happy Life, in which an absorbed graphic artist unwittingly draws himself into an animated prison. This half of the competition programme also includes the astonishing Oscar winning toon-town action movie Logorama, a hugely inventive and spectacular shoot out between renegade trade marks. You can see both World Animation Competition programmes for a double bill price of £10 / £8
Draw Yourself
Wed 17th Nov, 6pm
Town Hall 2
A simple conceit has given rise to this beautiful little film, small but perfectly formed. A windowglass tour of the world proposed to children too young yet to read or write; they simply take a place in the frame by drawing a picture of themselves. These pictures are then animated in imaginative little vignettes before the film moves onto the next children somewhere else in the world. It’s the story of each and every one of us, of what we once were and the difficulty of remaining as we once were.
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