Life’s a Carnival: Brighton International Animation Festival

Življenje je karneval – Mednarodni festival animiranega filma v Brightonu

Thursday, 25. 9. 2025 at 9.00 / Vetrinj mansion, big hall

Četrtek, 25. 9. 2025 ob 9.00 / Vetrinjski dvor, velika dvorana

Programme curated and introduced by Kate Jessop (BIAF Festival Director).

Program je kurirala in ga bo predstavila Kate Jessop (direktorica festivala BIAF).

Vsebinske opombe

Spolno nadlegovanje, spolno nasilje in posilstvo

Content notes

Sexual harassment, sexual violence and rape

This programme explores the archives of BIAF to bring you the most comedic and playful of works from Britain and beyond. It encompasses stop motion puppet animation from the National Film and TV School through to 2D hand drawn animation from the likes of Candy Guard of Channel 4’s Pond Life adult animation series. 7 out of the 13 films in this 70 minute programme are British and explore an array of topics including the nature of friendship and alien encounters!
Kate Jessop is the director of the BIAF Festival and a multi-award-winning writer/director whose work has been featured in hundreds of international exhibitions and distributed through platforms like Shorts International and Amazon Prime. She has represented the United Kingdom at the Best of Women in Film and TV competition and was selected to participate in the Berlinale Talent Lab with both her directing portfolio and a comedy series developed as part of the Project Lab. Her creative work spans narrative film, comedy, illustration, live visual content, music videos, and motion design. Jessop has participated in artistic residencies in Berlin, Istanbul, and Reykjavik. She has had retrospectives at the Gilbert Baker Film Festival in the USA and the Czech Anifilm. Her contributions to the field of queer animation have been documented in the pioneering book On LGBTQ2S Animation, published by Quickdraw in Canada in 2021.
BIAF, Brighton, UK
4. – 6. 4. 2025

She's My Best Friend (and I Hate Her) / Ona je moja najboljša prijateljica (in jo sovražim)
Candy Guard (Popsybobin, Shaw Films)
2023, UK, 4'13''

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Mee and Burd / Jaz in Burd
Greg McLeod
2023, UK, 7'41''

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Balcony Cacophony / Balkonska kakofonija
Quentin Haberham (Family Affair Films)
2022, The Netherlands, 5'

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A Bird Hit My Window and Now I'm a Lesbian / Ptič je treščil v moje okno in zdaj sem lezbijka
Carmela Marie Murphy, AJ Dubler (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
2024, USA, 8’

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