Edge of Frame: Portals Programme 1

A programme of experimental animation exploring social and psychological realms, escaping from the gateways of technology and capitalism through the doors of perception, to return to our primordial beginnings. These works blur the boundaries between past and present, landscape and technology, human and nonhuman, inner and outer. From brand new films to historical classics these two selections present a dazzling window onto experimental animation practice.

The first of two Edge of Frame programmes for London International Animation Festival 2025, taking the viewer on a journey of portals, windows and cosmic thresholds, into new realities and transitional spaces.

Open Window
Karissa Hahn, 2016, 2 min

Windows open when a Digital 8 camera meets a mac computer screen.

Remote Life Drawings
Cheng-Hsu Chung, 2018, 4 min

An animated collage of abstract forms, mapping the shifting rhythms of the Taipei Artist Village and its surroundings. 

Vadim on a Walk
Sasha Svirsky, 2021, 8 min

Finally, Vadim goes out of a tight square space where he has been used to sitting. He embraces the brave new world and his renewed life.

Friends, Shopping, and Food
Michael Lopez, 2025, 15 min

An experimental journey through memory, consumerism, and creeping horror.

Deluge
Meejin Hong, 2025, 12 min

An ever-evolving landscape where the present inevitably coexists with the past. The slow stampede of a vulnerable mind.

Asparagus
Suzan Pitt, 1979, 18 min

This candy coloured nightmare rocked audiences upon its release. A moving meditation on art and the cost of reproduction, Asparagus remains a benchmark of single frame intensity.

Gaia’s Dream
Rose Bond, 1982, 3 min

Emerging from images which suggest primordial beginnings, a running horse becomes the focus of this rhythmic and abstract animation made by drawing and painting directly on 16mm clear film. The musicians of Gwinyai performed a soundtrack of traditional music from Zimbabwe expressly for the film.

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