A couple of events next week for y'all to check out.
Our Summer edition of Bristol Animation Meetup (BAM) will be taking place on Tuesday July 8th. This time around we'll be teaming up with the returning Encounters Film Festival for INBETWEENS, a special screening event at The Cube Microplex celebrating contemporary queer animation. The programme was curated by BAM team member Luzie Ilgner, who's done an incredible job of putting together some fantastic films as well as a series of interviews over on Skwigly. There'll also be a Q&A with attending filmmakers on the night and some time in the bar afterwards for the usual BAM millabout-ery.
I'm doubly excited for this one as it serves as the first step in bringing animation back to Encounters (it was sidelined for a while, as I've ranted about), something I'll hopefully be able to do more of in my new role as Animation Programmer for their upcoming 30th edition this September. We also appear to be in an alarming time where unevolved ignorance and narrowmindedness has become concerningly emboldened, and so any opportunity to celebrate and bring the community together is very welcome. You can grab tickets here and the full lineup is below:
- Coming out Autistic by Steven Fraser
- Dear Nana by Han Nguyen
- Doll Searching by Felix Cheng
- Confusion of the Afternoon by Yung-Chieh Lee
- Récit De Soi by Géraldine Charpentier
- 07:00 by Benji Neville
- Pipes by Jessica Meier, Kilian Feusi, Sujanth Ravichandran
- Seasons by Elise Nickerson
- Falling For Greta by Gustavo Arteaga
- The Secret Lives of Lesbians’ Cats by Kate Jessop
- Blooming by Efa Blosse-Mason / Sophie Marsh
- Frogsporn by Rosanna Verdon-Roe
- The Eating of an Orange by May Kindred-Boothby
- Hide and Seek by Junjie Xu
- Two Black Boys in Paradise by Baz Sells
If you can't make it on the 8th, Skwigly and Cardiff Animation Festival will be hosting a repeat screening of INBETWEENS at Chapter Arts Centre on August 23rd - more info and ticket link to follow.
On Friday July 11th I'll be up in London for Hungarian Animation 111, an event celebrating Hungary's contribution to animation landscape as marked by its selection as guest country at this year's Annecy festival. The evening will be divided into three parts, starting with a shorts programme curated by Friss Hús featuring work from Péter Vácz, Julia Tudisco, Dominika Demeter and Ervin B. Nagy. I'll then be moderating the panel discussion Frame by Frame: The growing influence of Hungarian Animation with Anna Ida Orosz, Jez Stewart and Lydia Reid before the evening closes out with a screening of László Csáki's feature film Pelikan Blue. The evening will kick off 6pm at Liszt Institute London, register for free here and hope to see you there!
