AFTERMATH: animations exploring war, conflict and loss
We are pleased to have co-curated the AFTERMATH programme with filmmaker Elizabeth Hobbs, who we recently had the pleasure of co-producing I’m OK with (and the National Film Board of Canada).
AFTERMATH is a programme of short animations exploring the Great War at its centenary, and themes of conflict and loss. The programme is inspired by I’m OK, a new short film by Elizabeth Hobbs about the Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka and his experiences as a soldier in the First World War. Other internationally renowned filmmakers that feature in the programme include Vera Neubauer, Max Hattler, Emma Calder, Filipe Abranches, Tess Martin, and Paul Wenninger. The films tour to Leicester, Cornwall, Birmingham and London from 6 October.
(Owing to the subject nature, the programme is intended for a 15+ audience.)
Tour dates:
Saturday 6 October, 2:00-3:30pm
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester
The German Expressionist Art Gallery is the perfect setting for this programme, where its walls are lined with the artistic responses of Expressionist artists to the horrors of the First World War, and one of Kokoschka’s well-revered self portraits is on display. The programme will be followed by filmmakers Elizabeth Hobbs and Sylvie Bringas speaking about the influence of Expressionism on their work, and will be chaired by Abigail Addison from Animate Projects.
Tickets are £4.50, available from the museum shop either in person or by calling 0116 225 4920. Booking advisable.
Saturday 27 October, 6:30-8:15pm
Tate St Ives, Cornwall
Borlase Smart room, Porthmeor Studios
The programme of films will be presented by filmmaker Elizabeth Hobbs, and include an introduction on how prominent artists who lived in St Ives explored the Great War in their work by local writer and historian Janet Axten. Artist Oskar Kokoschka, who inspired Hobbs’ film I’m OK lived in Polperro in Cornwall in 1939, producing paintings from his house on the cliff, some of which are in the Tate Collection.
Saturday 3 November, 4:00-6:00pm
Centrala, Birmingham
The programme will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Elizabeth Hobbs, Layla Atkinson, and John Harmer, chaired by Abigail Addison from Animate Projects. The event is presented in partnership with the ‘Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its legacy’ AHRC/HLF First World War Engagement Centre that is based at the Library of Birmingham.
Book your free place on Eventbrite here.
Tuesday 4 December, 6:30-8:30pm
Barbican, London as part of the London International Animation Festival
The programme will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Elizabeth Hobbs, Emma Calder and Maryam Mohajer talking about their artistic process and how they have chosen to depict the themes that are central to the films being screened, chaired by Abigail Addison from Animate Projects.
