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Sunday 8th January 2006

1pm, ICA cinema 1
Filmonik exclusive new shorts
Manchester-based FILMONIK holds monthly screenings of brand new short films, often hot from the edit suite! In a special project for this Halloween Festival, Filmonik writers have put pen to paper to produce some set texts and skeleton scripts to be shot and edited in the month before the festival. Filmmakers from Manchester and London will tackle these texts independently, bringing their own individual interpretations to the screen.

2pm, ICA cinema 2
Death To Animation - animate! remix (45 mins)
animate! REMIXED allows visual remixers BUZZARD BUZZARD confront a cornucopia of historic animate! commissions to celebrate animate!’s 15 year anniversary, showcasing a brain-spinning sound and vision cinematic remix of a selection of the 78 films made with Arts Council and Channel 4 funding since 1990. Followed by a bar discussion with the filmmakers and others involved.

3pm, ICA bar
Death To Animation salon
Come to the bar and discuss the future of animation.
It's time to find a new word for “the manipulated moving image”.

3.15pm, ICA cinema 2
Dazzle Films International shorts (60 mins)

4.45 & 6.30pm, ICA cinema 2
Animus Films & Robert Morgan retrospectives and Q&A (71 mins)
ANIMUS FILMS will be focusing on their animation work as well as work with ‘horror’ filmmaker ROBERT MORGAN in A CATALOGUE OF HORRORS.

6pm, ICA bar
3rd Halloween Short Film Festival awards ceremony

8pm, ICA bar
Animus Films acoustic session featuring Frank Turner and El Coco
A bar event including an exclusive live animation raffle where the audience will provide ideas for the Animus team to process and animate on the spot. Plus live slots from ex-Million Dead frontman FRANK TURNER, currently touring his solo acoustic show of covers, Million Dead songs and new compositions, and EL COCO, the musical side project of horror filmmaker SAM WALKER.