Box Trawls

Our Skwigly guest spot at the London Animation Club earlier this week was a massive success. Thanks to everyone who came out and especially to Martin again for having us, hopefully you all enjoyed it as much as we did! For those who weren't able to make it I got the impression some of it was filmed and I believe that will go up at some point down the line, so keep checking their website.

In the meantime I've uploaded a special Lightbox compilation video I edited together as part of our presentation. It's impossible to do a complete 'best-of' in 20 minutes but this I think gives an impression of the range and scope of our coverage, from emerging up-and-comers to established Oscar-winners.

The video features snippets our chats with Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Robert Kondo, Dice Tsutsumi, Bill Plympton, Torill Kove, Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson, Will Becher, Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed and Jeff Turley. Don't forget you can watch all of their interviews plus many more in full over at our official channel.

For those of you based up North, I strongly urge you to check out This Is Not A Cartoon, a new Skwigly venture in association with the BFI Film Hub. The events have been programmed primarily by Jen Hall of Manchester's Cornerhouse/HOME, the first of which taking place April 24th at the Stoke-on-Trent Science Centre featuring a live Q&A with the aforementioned Ainslie Henderson, director of Monkey Love Experiments and I Am Tom Moody. For more info on the programme and upcoming events head over to the website.

Club Life

So both the chances of new Twin Peaks and Opie and Anthony ever getting back together have seemingly gone up in smoke over one Easter break. Good going, bunny-Jesus. If anything happens to The Scarlet Gospels or Sol Invictus before May I'll have pretty much no more cultural interests left.
Well, there's the old ball-and-chain of animation, I suppose. Although on some fronts things are without a paddle, so to speak, I recently had a nostalgic opportunity to revisit an old film for an interview that will hopefully surface late April/early May. Will post that when there are postables.

Before then, however, those of you near and within ol' London town may wish to swing by The Green Man around 7:30pm this coming Tuesday (14th) for the London Animation Club, at which Skwigly - in the comely form of Aaron, Steve and myself - will be doing a special presentation on the past, present and future of our fine website, now in the third glorious year of its diabolical new regime. Many thanks to organiser Martin for extending the invite. Check out the Facebook event page for more info and I hope to see some of you dapper darlings there.