Author / lmfyff
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THE PERPETRATORS @ BIAF 2023
THE PERPETRATORS will screen in the Closing Gala at Brighton International Animation Festival on Sunday 16 April at 8pm.
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THE PERPETRATORS @ Bendigo Queer Film Festival, Australia
THE PERPETRATORS will screen at the Bendigo Queer Film Festival in Victoria, Australia in March.
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THE PERPETRATORS @ BFI FLARE 2023
THE PERPETRATORS will screen at London’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival, BFI FLARE, in March 2023.
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Let Me Feel Your Finger First archive at Bishopsgate Institute
The LGBTQ+ archives at Bishopsgate Institute, London now hold the archive of the comic art project LET ME FEEL YOUR FINGER FIRST which ran from 1999 – 2015.
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THE PERPETRATORS in competition at LSFF 2023
THE PERPETRATORS will have its UK Premiere competing at London Short Film Festival 2023.
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THE PERPETRATORS distributed by Light Cone
THE PERPETRATORS is now available to hire for public screenings from Light Cone.
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THE PERPETRATORS debuts at QUEER LISBOA 26
Richard Squires’ new short THE PERPETRATORS will premiere in the Short Film competition at Queer Lisboa 26 in Portugal.
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Doozy Deconstructed: Paul Lynde’s voicing of Hanna Barbera’s animated villains
Richard Squires’ article on Doozy has been published in volume 9 of the academic journal Animation Practice, Process and Production alongside articles by Paul Wells, Katerina Athanasopoulou, Sally Pearce, Mary Martin and others. Squires’ article considers how sexuality is coded and performed by animated characters; Hollywood’s legacy of queer-coded villainy; the relationship between the actor’s…
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ONTOLOGICALLY ANXIOUS ORGANISM Eps 1-3 streaming worldwide
ONTOLOGICALLY ANXIOUS ORGANISM Episodes 1-3 is now available to stream worldwide.
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DOOZY streaming on Glitch
DOOZY is now streaming in Latin America and Scandinavia.
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DOOZY streaming worldwide on Vimeo On Demand
DOOZY is now streaming worldwide on Vimeo on Demand.
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DOOZY DECONSTRUCTED at APAR symposium
Richard Squires’ paper DOOZY DECONSTRUCTED is part of the upcoming ANIMATION PRACTICE AS RESEARCH online symposium. It will also be published in the accompanying edition of the journal ANIMATION PRACTICE, PROCESS AND PRODUCTION (Intellect Books).
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CAMERA OBSCURA Ian White
This text was commissioned to accompany the release of Richard Squires’ film PROGRAMME which premiered at New Work UK at Whitechapel, 2007. Pornography is like silent film. Both share a formal drive that turns action into a demonstration of itself for the sake of entertainment. When a door is opened in a silent film we…
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DOOZY distributed by Light Cone
DOOZY is now available to hire for theatrical / public screenings from Paris-based experimental film distributor Light Cone.
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ONTOLOGICALLY ANXIOUS ORGANISM @ LSFF 2020
The original episode of Let Me Feel Your Finger First’s ONTOLOGICALLY ANXIOUS ORGANISM screens at London Short Film Festival in January 2020.
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LMFYFF Comics @ Salon BD et Images LGBT Paris
LET ME FEEL YOUR FINGER FIRST COMICS will be at the 6e Salon BD & Images LGBT Paris on Saturday, 30 November.
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DOOZY @ Durban GLFF
DOOZY will shortly have its South African premiere at Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
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DOOZY AT QUEER LISBOA
We are delighted to announce that DOOZY will screen at Portugal’s prestigious LGBTQ+ festival, Queer Lisboa.
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DOOZY ON FANTASY/ANIMATION
DOOZY features on the Fantasy/Animation Research Network this month.
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LET ME FEEL YOUR FINGER FIRST: MEET THE FAMILY Esther Leslie
It is all a matter of reproduction. Cartoons and comics are often populated by families, little bands of somehow-related squabblers and jerks: from The Katzenjammer Kids through The Kin-der Kids, The Flintstones to Family Guy. Families are products of reproduction (the biological, genetical sort), as are comics and cartoons (the technological sort). The adventures of…
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DOOZY: THE TRIUMPH OF FAILURE Benedict Morrison
About forty minutes in, just past its halfway point, Richard Squires’ Doozy (2018) explicitly raises the issue of failure. In this unconventional documentary on the life and work of American actor Paul Lynde, the issue is a key one. John Airlie and Paul Wells, two of the film’s academic talking heads, comment that failure defines…
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ACTING DUMB & PLAYING DEAD Let Me Feel Your Finger First in conversation with Angela Kingston
Angela Kingston: Ontologically Anxious Organism is an episodic series of animation and comic strips. How did you settle on the rock as a ‘character’ – and eponymous ‘hero’? Let Me Feel Your Finger First: The idea for the charactercame about partly because of seeing these comic rocks in European graphics novels like The Smurfs and…
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FRANCIS Esther Leslie
Often cited as the first fully animated film, Emile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie (1908) opens with the animator’s hand drawing into life his character, a clown, who immediately mutates into a man in a top hat. The next 80-odd seconds are a continual whirl of transformation, turbulence, disturbance, dislocation, indecorous responses and illogic: a mini-narrative that is…
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DOOZY AT IFFR
We are delighted to announce that DOOZY will have its International Premiere at IFFR Rotterdam in January 2019.