Archives, Collage & Chaos: The Films of Joan Ashworth & Laurie Hill
London Animation Club brings together filmmakers Joan Ashworth and Laurie Hill to show and discuss a selection of their work.
Ashworth and Hill met at the RCA over 20 years ago. Their work connects through a fondness for using animation to explore archives. Ashworth approaches the life and work of artist and campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst using archive footage, animation and original interviews with her only son Richard. Hill excavates, rummages and rearranges with a playful eye and taste for absurdity. For both, fragmentary material often finds a fitting shape through collage, montage and fun.
The event is introduced by Martin Pickles and the screening is followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
The film programe includes:
– Joan Sylvia Pankhurst: Artist, Writer, Fighter (Joan Ashworth, 2024).
– Photograph of Jesus (Laurie Hill, 2009).
– My First Taste of Death (Laurie Hill, 2006).
– Sir John Lubbock’s Pet Wasp (Laurie Hill and Osbert Parker, 2018).
– High Street Repeat (Laurie Hill and Osbert Parker, 2023).
* Still image from Sir John Lubbock’s Pet Wasp.