The Lon­don Inter­na­tional Ani­ma­tion Fes­ti­val is organ­is­ing a fab­u­lous event with Amer­i­can cult ani­ma­tor Bruce Bick­ford. This is a rare, one-night-only pre­sen­ta­tion of his films, fea­tur­ing the exclu­sive Eng­lish pre­miere of his new film that he has been work­ing on for many years – Cas’l (excerpt bel­low).

Bick­ford is best known for his col­lab­o­ra­tions with musi­cian Frank Zappa in the 1970s, he’s an under­ground artist who has mys­ti­fied ani­ma­tion crit­ics and inspired gen­er­a­tions of ani­ma­tors, while some­how elud­ing fame. He has been described as the world’s only “out­sider artist” work­ing in the medium of animation.

The event takes place at The Horse Hos­pi­tal, 30 Colon­nade. Lon­don, WC1N 1JD on Mon­day March 15th at 7pm. Near­est tube is Rus­sell Square.