Introduced by programme curator Edwin Rostron and followed by filmmaker Q&A

Collision is an ongoing screening series presenting original, daring and sensorially revitalising animation from around the world. This second programme features eleven new and recent films from some of the most exciting independent animators working today. Featuring science fiction narratives, Gene Wilder, a quest for comfy shoes, Soviet mirrors, Spanish trompe l’oeils, the invisible pleasure of wind on skin and much more.

Sunken Cost
Robin Clifford Ellis, 2024, 2 min

Growing pains on a latter-day quest for comfy Oxfords. Music by Absolut Sagan.

I'm Not Your Monster
Karen Yasinsky, 2024, 5 min

“I'm Not Your Monster is a hand-drawn animation composed of fragments rotoscoped from various films. It began with replacing Frankenstein's monster with a person I know. The idea of fear creating violence inspired the project, coupled with ideas about the self, its construct and its relation to the body.” – KY

Mirror Products Catalog
Annapurna Kumar, 2024, 4 min

A group of mirror factory workers publish a book of reflections. Based on a 1988 mirror catalogue from the USSR, the film reimagines the roles of the uncredited models within it as active producers of their own images.

Edith and the Tall Child
Kohana Wilson, 2023, 7 min

Edith and the Tall Child is a hand-drawn film about hair, dysphoria, and the growing pains of a repeating puberty. It follows the titular Tall Child as they outgrow their apartment, their gender, and their hallucinatory giant ground sloth Edith.

The Wind
Miranda Javid, 2020, 4 min

A fact rolls by like a cloud in The Cloud. Digital desktops, trash cans, and cursors mutate the sensation of what tangibly remains: the invisible pleasure of wind on skin.

Red House
Barry Doupé, 2022, 3 min

Red House is an animation that playfully examines metamorphosis in the context of housing stability and structure. Utilising the AMIGA computer console and Deluxe Paint IV software, the hand-drawn sequences revel in the perpetual reconfiguration of images, characters, and forms.

Shunt
Colette Rayner, 2023, 5 min

Shunt is a hand drawn short, comprising of several reworked loops that were produced during the pandemic. It is formalised collage of studies: a fraught coming togetherness and falling apart of wet un-doings, associative encounters and hypothetical stressors.

Speed Reader
Jennifer Levonian, 2024, 4 min

Speed Reader follows a set of twins as their lives weave in and out of one another, portraying what it is to see and be seen or not seen by loved ones through the vicissitudes of life.

Places I’ve Never Left Pt. 1
Loïc Kreyden, 2022, 3 min

A journey through several states of mind.

Three Rooms
Matt Bollinger, 2018, 19 min

A dual story, one set in the present lacking any visible characters, and one set in a science fiction future that imagines the repercussions of everyday actions at a time-scale much greater than the human lifespan.

Ojitos Mentirosos
Elena Duque, 2024, 6 min

“Lie, lie, your little eyes lie / they look, they look so beautifully / and my heart breaks apart.” – Ojitos mentirosos, Tropicalísimo Apache

The trompe l’oeil is a painting that works by “deceiving the eye” of the beholder. Here you can see a showcase of Madrid’s trompe l’oeils: those painted on the city’s walls, making up windows and skies that don’t exist, and those made by means of a film camera.

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Edge of Frame is a platform for experimental animation curated by Edwin Rostron. It has championed the rough edges of animation practice for over 10 years, through writing, screenings and events.

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