Interview with Robert Löbel
We spoke to Robert Löbel, the animator behind the wonderful WIND – which is one of the highlights of the Watersprite festival this weekend.
We spoke to Robert Löbel, the animator behind the wonderful WIND – which is one of the highlights of the Watersprite festival this weekend.
“WIND clings to its blustery motif, and consistently delights the viewer with the joys of animation throughout”. See it at Watersprite this weekend.
Hala Alabdalla’s haunting film looks at Middle Eastern political cartoonists during the Arab Spring. Mike Levy wonders whether images can change the world.
Hertzfeldt’s stories and animation style are simultaneously esoteric and full of mass appeal, writes Jon Toomey.
Jon Toomey reports back from Animated Exeter, the leading public animation festival in the UK. The opening film is RAY HARRYHAUSEN: SPECIAL EFFECTS TITAN!
Rich pickings at this year’s Underwire Film Festival at the Ritzy in Brixton included panel discussions, one-to-one support events for filmmakers and a generous helping of short film screenings. Jo Shaw reviews.
A LIAR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY presents itself like an audiovisual entry from the real Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with a bit of Tristram Shandy thrown in.
If Terry Gilliam decided to perform one of his animated Python cut scenes live, that might give you a rough idea of what to expect from The Paper Cinema, writes Harry Hunt.
DUMBO plays on themes that are universally fear-inducing for children: isolation, bullying and embarrassment, writes Joe De-Vine.
Marrying perfectly judged humour with incessant imagination, ERNEST AND CELESTINE is an absolute joy; an almost faultless 80-minute burst of unabashed delight, writes Ed Frost at the London Film Festival.